Washington’s most parochial federal office holder might be headed for Texas. No, not short-timer President George W. Bush, but 84-year-old Sen....
The Capitol Hill-financed juggernaut that has been the Boys & Girls Clubs of America for over two decades has stalled in the...
For numismatists, 1943 is a year to remember – every penny minted that year was made of zinc. So, too, fiscal 2007...
Flores: The attorney general’s butler, and the national juvenile justice field’s maximum minimum leader. Thank you, Jack Abramoff and your congressional pals...
Source: America’s Promise, grant proposal to CNCS, 2002 Could it be a decade since the “ready, fire, aim” Philadelphia launch of America’s...
SEN. STEVENS FEEDING HAPPY THE HIPPOPOTAMUS: One of them is where he belongs – behind bars. Wondering about that weeping and chattering...
In 1896, when Polish patriot Henryk Sienkiewicz published his epic historical novel Quo Vadis, the devout Catholic knew where he was going....
Rarely has a special interest group and its Capitol Hill supporters been hoisted higher on its own sanctimonious petard than the National...
Now comes the demise of the Washington-based Connect for Kids. CFK was born in 1991 as a communications arm of the now-defunct...
The precipitous collapse of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s political career is reverberating in national child welfare policy circles. The Hammer,...
“Two strong women mud wrestling.” That’s how one Capitol Hill Democratic staffer describes the match of wills between Emily Stover DeRocco, assistant...
On Jan. 10, it was daylight for fewer than four hours in Fairbanks, Alaska (area population: 80,000). But according to reports in...
Nose Knows is miffed. Why should shyster lobbyist Jack Abramoff, felonious ex-Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-Calif.) and Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) get all...
Once feared lost in the Bermuda Triangle of consultant-induced philanthropic anomie, the Atlantic Philanthropies (assets: $4.3 billion) has sailed into port with...
JACS Tossed By Job Corps It would be hard to imagine a more innocuous do-gooder, national youth-serving organization than Joint Action in...
The crown prince of congressional funding for youth services is moving on. Robbie Callaway, senior vice president of government relations at the...
A Heckuva Job The Bush administration fiasco that unfolded along the Gulf Coast last month painfully brought to public attention the truth...
An abstinence-only youth program has had its federal funding suspended because it used taxpayer dollars to promote religion.An investigation by the U.S....
No youth-serving agency in living memory has had such spectacular financial success or suffered as spectacular a scandal as New York-based Covenant...
Feedin’ Fannie When a kid hears the words “Fannie Mae,” a lady’s posterior comes to mind. When an adult hears those same...