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Audit D.C. Notes: Football Facts, Jobs Jam, Gauging Fairness
September 9, 2010 06:05 PM
Just in time for the start of the NFL season, the Center for American Progress Action Fund is out with a new report on the league’s collective bargaining agreement. The report uses a bit of drama to get fans’... Continue reading
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Boy, Look Who National Journal’s Been Hiring
September 8, 2010 01:58 PM
The National Journal Group has been generating a lot of buzz lately with big-name hires like Major Garrett, Matt Cooper, Marc Ambinder and Michael Hirsh. The latest addition to the team is Beth Reinhard, who’s leaving her job... Continue reading
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Audit D.C. Notes: Revisiting Bai on Blumenauer, Cato Purge, Labor Day Lesson
September 3, 2010 05:14 PM
Last week I grumbled about a New York Times portrait of Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) written by Matt Bai. There were lots of problems with the piece, including the way it hinted that the bow-tied, bike-riding progressive Democrat was... Continue reading
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New Job, Less Pay
September 1, 2010 02:14 PM
The New York Times does good work today, looking at an issue that hasn’t received enough attention: “the quality of the jobs being created and what that might say about the opportunities available to workers when the recession finally... Continue reading
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Audit D.C. Notes: Kurtz Conflicted, Citizens United Reconsidered, Privatization Debated
August 30, 2010 04:02 PM
Howard Kurtz’s dual roles as Washington Post media writer and CNN host have come under plenty of scrutiny before. But in his Post column today, singing the praises of Time magazine, Kurtz comes up way short in... Continue reading
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Audit D.C. Notes: Maddow on Katrina, WaPo on Mystery Dems, What Dodd Didn’t Ask
August 27, 2010 03:45 PM
It’s good to see all the coverage of New Orleans five years after Katrina. But Rachel Maddow’s show Thursday night stood out for its sharp focus on one angle of the storm’s aftermath: just how really difficult it is for... Continue reading
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NYT Blurs the Debt Debate
August 26, 2010 03:46 PM
The New York Times poses an interesting question today: “Is there a strong liberal argument to be made for attacking the federal debt?” But in trying to answer it—through a sketch of Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.)—the paper goes a... Continue reading
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Tug of War at the Fed
August 24, 2010 12:52 PM
The Wall Street Journal does good work today with a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the August 10 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee. Jon Hilsenrath reports that the meeting “was among the most contentious in Ben Bernanke's four-and-a-half... Continue reading
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Audit D.C. Notes: The End of the Affair, Stimulus Situation, Cantor on the Trail
August 23, 2010 05:06 PM
The August lull is giving The New York Times a chance to point out just how much our economic lives have changed. Today the paper looks at the housing market, and the now-outdated notion that real estate always appreciates:... Continue reading
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Audit D.C. Notes: Going Against the Meme, Mortgage Madness, Summer Reading
August 5, 2010 02:30 PM
Christopher Beam does a nice job at Slate, throwing cold water on the anti-incumbency meme that’s been dominating election coverage. Sure, a few incumbents have lost in recent months. But, Beam writes, let's put this in perspective: So far... Continue reading
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Audit D.C. Notes: State Stats, Jobs Plan, Card Clues
August 4, 2010 02:40 PM
USA Today does good work with its own state-by-state analysis of the stimulus program and the relationship between state unemployment rates and stimulus benefits. The findings might not be what you expected: States with the highest jobless rates are... Continue reading
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The Peterson Dilemma
August 3, 2010 11:42 AM
A story in The Fiscal Times recently caught my eye. But even before I could decide whether to write about it, I bumped into couple of stubborn facts. Neither counts as news. But I’d like to point them out—and then... Continue reading
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It’s All About Us
July 30, 2010 12:52 PM
It seemed like a questionable allocation of resources when The Washington Post dispatched seven reporters to local coffeehouses one day this week. Their mission: “to find a story that told us something important about life at this time in this... Continue reading
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NYT Goes to the Numbers
July 28, 2010 12:42 PM
The New York Times has a good early look at something that’s much in demand—an analysis of where the economy would be without the government interventions of the last couple of years. The story is based on a new... Continue reading
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WSJ’s Stimulus-Debate Story is Debatable
July 27, 2010 03:59 PM
The Wall Street Journal goes big with a story on the debate over stimulus spending. But the piece doesn’t deliver the punch it promises. Instead, there’s a lot of he-said, she-said, and even a sleepy dose of Keynes-said, Friedman-said.... Continue reading
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On Tax-Cut Politics, WSJ Adds to the Confusion
July 26, 2010 05:50 PM
The Wall Street Journal takes its turn at the tax-cuts-as-election-issue story. But in trying to explain the politics that are at work here, the paper merely confuses the issue, and its readers. The lede is straightforward enough: Democrats are... Continue reading
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NYT’s Rangel Work Gets Results on the Hill
July 23, 2010 12:43 PM
A House ethics panel’s ruling that Charlie Rangel violated congressional rules is big news all around today, as it should be. But it’s worth noting that The New York Times got this ball rolling with some pretty good, old-fashioned, investigative... Continue reading
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WaPo’s Chamber Piece Misses a Few Notes
July 22, 2010 03:58 PM
The Washington Post looks at the recent record of the Chamber of Commerce and puts a lot in the loss column. But readers would get a truer portrait of the organization, and the city it operates in, if the... Continue reading
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Audit D.C. Notes: Smoked Out, Debate On, Happy Enough?
July 20, 2010 03:58 PM
Stateline.org digs into something I’ve often wondered about but rarely seen reported: the way Americans’ decrease in smoking is hitting state budgets. It’s a fascinating story, and it’s big money: The payments to states come each year as... Continue reading
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Mind the Gap
July 19, 2010 02:02 PM
Politico has the smart idea to compare how the American public sees the economy and what “Washington’s governing class” thinks. While the results aren’t exactly shocking, it’s good to have some data to hammer home just how big the... Continue reading

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