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...Yoon said. “It’s a mix of my background but also kind of the way I think.” Susan Y. Yao ’09-’10, a Boston-area resident who worked as in intern in the press office of City Hall last summer, said that Yoon “wasn’t really on the radar” at the time. “It’s a very gutsy move, since [Yoon] is young and a new council member,” she said...
...Dayton after the head of the local advertising company found out what would be on the sign. "Once we sent one advertising group our artwork for the sign, [the firm] cut off all communications with us," Gaylor says, adding that a company representative told the Chattanooga Times Free Press that he was a Christian and would not take money for any sign that supported Darwin or his birthday. In the end, the FFRF purchased a billboard on the outskirts of town from a company not based in Dayton...
Indeed, most of the 65 Twittering Representatives rely on their staffs to post links to press releases and notices of public events. "The feed is live now on http://dodd.senate.gov. The town hall will start shortly," reads a typical Tweet on Senate Banking Committee chairman Chris Dodd's Twitter page. But a few members like Hoekstra are braving uncharted territory, providing a unique window into the daily machinations of the nation's power brokers and, in the process, establishing a new form of civic journalism...
...wake of the Hoekstra controversy, it was reviewing its policies for briefing lawmakers in advance about trips to war zones. Despite the questioning of Hoekstra's disclosures by staffers in Congress and the Pentagon, the experience has not deterred the lawmaker from Twitter. "Sure, I give [my press secretary] heartburn, but I think that's one of the things that makes Twitter attractive, that it doesn't go through a filter and a screen," Hoekstra says. "Normally, I have my staff write a press release, then I give feedback, then they rewrite it. This is direct...
...will not be bulldozed into joining this government, which does not reflect the interests of the people. I'm not going to betray them." - Upon returning to Zimbabwe after two months abroad (Associated Press...