Media Ethics and Accountability

Proposal barring Illinois officials' names from billboards heads to Senate (Chicago Tribune)

16 May 2008

House also backs good-conduct program to help ex-cons join workforce SPRINGFIELD — Two years after motorists complained about the cost of big blue tollway signs displaying Gov. Rod Blagojevich's name, the House approved legislation Thursday that would ban the governor and other officials from putting their names on billboards aimed at promoting state programs.

Missile Defense (Center for Defense Information)

15 May 2008

NB#1: This month, CDI Senior Advisor Philip Coyle will have testified twice at a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs hearing.

Nigeria: So the Youth Can Have a Future (AllAfrica.com)

14 May 2008

Early this week, the media reported the demonstration of some school children in Port Harcourt, Rivers State over the incessant kidnappings in that part of the country.