It’s not often that the liberal American Civil Liberties Union and conservative Judicial Watch agree on anything, but the Obama administration’s lack of transparency has brought the two together.
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"Overtime is not a four-letter word in transit,” San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Transit Director John Haley, seeking to downplay the problem of overtime abuse, told the Board of Supervisors Audits and Oversight Committee in May.
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President Barack Obama has learned nothing from the widening scandal surrounding the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program.
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Scary realities about Obamacare keep seeping out.
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously said that she had to pass Obamacare through Congress so that we could find out what was in it, Americans were given a preview of what they are seeing now — a profusion of legislative errors and broken promises related to President Barack Obama’s virtual government takeover of health care. Just this month, we have seen another tranche of bad Obamacare news.
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President Barack Obama’s selection Monday of Princeton economist Alan B. Krueger to succeed Austan D. Goolsbee as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers is no cause for optimism.
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It now appears as if Obamacare might force millions of middle-class Americans to buy health insurance they can’t afford, or else it could end up costing taxpayers $500 billion more over 10 years.
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Among the most heartwarming events seen in many years on the floor of the House of Representatives came last week when Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., made an unexpected return to cast her first vote since being shot in the head in January. House members broke out in sustained and loud cheers, surrounded Giffords with unalloyed affection and displayed a deeply felt bipartisan joy in her amazing recovery.
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One of the better slogans to come out of the 1960s was “Power to the People.” It’s a sentiment that everyone — left, right, middle of the road — can agree on. It’s refreshing that California’s government — whose slogan too often seems to be “Power to the Bureaucrats” — has implemented the Parent Empowerment Act.
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San Francisco’s Whistleblower Complaints Program has uncovered and corrected many instances of governmental waste, fraud and abuse in the past seven years. But a recent grand jury report itself blows the whistle on the program, pointing out significant shortcomings in need of correction.
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The San Francisco Examiner’s position on the awarding of government contracts has been consistent and straightforward. Transparent, competitive bidding is always the best public policy. With no-bid contracts or backroom-negotiated deals, the safeguards are not strong enough to ensure if taxpayers are getting their money’s worth of high-quality work.
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