We were very pleased to read in Roll Call today (subscription required) that the Obama administration is no longer considering appointing a former lobbyist to head an important Department of Justice (DOJ) office that oversees legal policy and judicial nominations. Earlier this month, press reports s...

The close ties between Rep. John Murtha and a Washington lobbying firm raided by the FBI have put the powerful Pennsylvania Democrat under greater scrutiny. The lobbyists at PMA Group have been Murtha's fifth most generous campaign donor over time, but he is just one of 284 members of the 111th Cong...

Another day, another tax headache for President Obama. Just a few hours after Nancy Killefer withdrew her candidacy to serve as Chief Performance Officer, we've learned that Tom Daschle has now withdrawn his nomination to head up the Department of Health and Human Services. Daschle had neglected...

And with this, thousands of conservative schemes and shrieks to not pay taxes evaporated. The shame will be that this will be that Daschle’s withdrawal was about taxes, and not that he was an industry tool for the healthcare industry. It’s similarly hard to believe that with a screening ...

With a tanking economy, warming planet and multiple bloody conflicts abroad, President Obama has his work cut out for him. His biggest challenge, however, might be keeping his campaign promise to transform American politics, according to Robert Kaiser, author of the new book "So Damn Much Money: The...

So far the Obama administration has appeared to make efforts to slow down the revolving door for lobbyists going from the executive branch into the private sector (and vice versa). But does the new president's executive order prohibiting incoming members of the administration from working on issues ...

This morning more news of layoffs at Publishers Weekly surfaced. Along with Editor-in-chief Sara Nelson , the parent company also cut Executive Editor Daisy Maryles , Children's Reviews Editor Elizabeth Devereaux , and Bookselling Editor Kevin Howell . That news was reported at BookBrunch, which joi...

Cambridge University Press has cut close to 160 jobs. The layoffs affected around 9.4 percent of the company's 1,700 employees and followed 60 cuts at Oxford University Press. The majority of the firings fell at Cambridge Printing Services, where a 170-employee section was trimmed to 37 employees, C...

This is supposed to impress? They give Bischoff the boot (in their words: "Sir Win Bischoff is to retire") and fill his seat with Dick Parsons, another long time board member? BFD. Same old, same old. Here's what VIkram Pandit......

An internal Washington Times memo, obtained by FishbowlDC: Folks: I'm please to announce two high-caliber additions to the news staff. While you know both of them well from their other roles in the Times' family, their entrance to the newsroom signals some exciting new strategic opportunities we are...