The St Louis Business Journal (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Anheuser-Busch, Bryan Cave and Thompson Coburn are among the most gay-friendly companies in the nation, according to a new survey.
Doug Ross @ Journal (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The Senate, October 20, 2005 Powerful senators gather on the floor including Ted Stevens, Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), Delaware Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) and Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK). Tom Coburn adds a Senate Appropriations amendment that would remove funds for Stevens' $223 million "Bridge to Nowhere." Coburn wants to send the money to New Orleans, in order to...
Sigmund, Carl and Alfred (Free subscription) | yesterday
The American Spectator: October 20, 2005. Scene: The United States Senate. Players: Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, Arizona Senator John McCain, Illinois Senator Barack Obama, Delaware Senator Joe Biden, Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn. Subject: Coburn’s amendment to remove the $223 million Alaskan “Bridge to Nowhere” from a Senate Appropriations bill and use it instead to repair the heavily...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... because to a large degree, it's already done. In 2006, Barack Obama and Republican Senator Tom Coburn introduced legislation to put the government's business in a free searchable public online database. The idea was that by granting the public access to how federal money is doled out, legislators would be loath to make secret sweetheart deals with lobbyists and local interests.I'm not enough...
US News (Free subscription) | yesterday
... and personal responsibility.Extra Pointer: Two very nice books for parents are by Karen Coburn and Madge Treeger and by Carol Barkin. Once you get your mind around your own feelings about your kid leaving for college, you'll be able to deal empathically with your child's feelings. Which would be a good thing for all concerned. 3. Help your kid develop his or her passion. The single most...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... party lines" to accomplish "anything significant," though Obama has teamed with GOP Sens. Tom Coburn and Richard Lugar to pass laws enhancing government transparency and curtailing the proliferation of nuclear and conventional weapons.Thompson repeated misleading claims about Obama's tax program, saying it would bring "one of the largest tax increases in American history." But as increases...
Political Punch (Free subscription) | yesterday
... was told," Axelrod said, "but she should talk to Sen. (Dick) Lugar (R-Ind.), talk to Sen. (Tom) Coburn (R-Okla.), talk to the people across the aisle in Illinois where he passed dozens of major laws to expand health care reform, welfare, reduce taxes on working families. So you know, I think that she had an assignment and she discharged it."Axelrod called Palin's assertion a "blatant distortion...
American Spectator (Free subscription) | yesterday
October 20, 2005.Scene: The United States Senate.Players: Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, Arizona Senator John McCain, Illinois Senator Barack Obama, Delaware Senator Joe Biden, Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn.Subject: Coburn's amendment to remove the $223 million Alaskan "Bridge to Nowhere" from a Senate Appropriations bill and use it instead to repair the heavily damaged Interstate 10 bridge...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | yesterday
... 4th October, at the National Art School Gallery, Sydney. Peter Daverington has won the John Coburn Award for Emerging Artists for his work Mevlana – The Dervish Series, a category introduced in 2007. And poet Mark Tredinnick has taken out the first ever Blake Poetry Prize, a new category initiated this year. Other entries have been singled out as 'highly commended' works, both in the art...
Liberal Values (Free subscription) | yesterday
... party lines” to accomplish “anything significant,” though Obama has teamed with GOP Sens. Tom Coburn and Richard Lugar to pass laws enhancing government transparency and curtailing the proliferation of nuclear and conventional weapons. Thompson repeated misleading claims about Obama’s tax program, saying it would bring “one of the largest tax increases in American history.” But as increases...
New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Obama’s policies include working with Lugar to pass a bill on international nuclear disarmament; Coburn on ethics legislation in the US Senate, and another bill in the Illinois Senate on ethics; the first database ever to give us transparency into US spending, etc. Obama wants to direct the US toward energy independence, freeing us from dependence on foreign governments, and boosing our economy...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
... over the next few years as we add employees to serve our customers expanding needs, said David E. Coburn, Smart Onlines CEO. Smart Online remains a proud member of the RTP business community, an area that affords many benefits for businesses and their employees.The company used the relocation as an opportunity to expand its IT infrastructure, adding more capacity to its network and development...
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
... Richard Lugar, R-Indiana, to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists and with Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, on the government budget.Gibbs blamed what he called lies like those perpetrated in Lieberman's speech for disillusioning voters and making them cynical of the government. "I think [Lieberman] owes it to the American people to look into the camera and tell them the truth,"...
Connecticut Bob (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
... Richard Lugar, R-Indiana, to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists and with Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, on the government budget.Gibbs blamed what he called lies like those perpetrated in Lieberman's speech for disillusioning voters and making them cynical of the government....
NixGuy.com (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
... Biden and Sen. Obama voted for funding the Bridge, even when given a second chance by Sen. Tom Coburn, who proposed shifting earmark funds to Katrina relief.Sen. McCain did not vote on the Coburn Amendment, though he is on record as opposing the Ketchikan bridge earmark.
