Investigating Power
Consumers for Smart Solar, the group promoting an anti-home-solar constitutional amendment in Florida, has received a half million dollars from the 60 Plus Association, a group that has received at least $34 million since 2010 from organizations financially backed by the Koch brothers.
What would have happened had prosecutors brought charges in 2011?
The largest contribution so far to an anti-consumer measure to impede access to solar energy just came from a mysterious new donor. This new donation comes as the battle over whether consumers in Florida can install home solar is heating up, with rival state constitutional amendments both aiming for the ballot in 2016.
The Wisconsin GOP held a public hearing today on three bills to welcome secret money in political campaigns, cripple ethics and election law enforcement, and make it harder to vote.
Three bills are moving to decriminalize the behavior at the heart of the John Doe investigation, to exempt politicians from similar corruption probes and to defang the nonpartisan agency that aided the investigation.
The Koch brothers and utility giants are bankrolling an anti-solar ballot initiative in Florida.
In the absence of a hurricane to sweep away public schools, a man-made calamity might do the trick.
The U.S. Department of Education is keeping the public in the dark on charter schools, again.
Spinmeister Richard Berman sinks to a new low in his fight against the minimum wage.
ALEC has decided to drop the pretense: school vouchers are not about helping poor, at-risk or minority kids.