A report written for President Barack Obama’s transition team recommends a code of conduct for the way HUD deals with the property it owns. HUD said some items have long-term implications that require more study.

Camden Mayor-elect Dana Redd Tuesday named 14 local and regional leaders to serve as her transition team.

Jay Covington, the City of Renton's chief administrative officer, is part of the transition team for county executive-elect Dow Constantine. But Constantine need not bother offering Covington a job in his new administration.

Barack Obama is the first US president to visit China within a year of assuming office. This shows the importance he attaches to US ties with China. In Shanghai, he saw how China had modernized.

Barack Obama is the first US president to visit China within a year of assuming office. This shows the importance he attaches to US ties with China.

Barack Obama was elected last year, preaching the Audacity of Hope.

Washington is sending tremendous amounts of military material into autocratic Middle Eastern nations and building-up bases in countries whose governments often prefer that no publicity be given to the growing American military "footprint."

As part of this fall's special topics course I'm co-teaching at UW-Madison -- Arts Enterprise: Art as Business as Art -- we hosted a public forum and a class discussion with Bill Ivey, Director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, and recent leader for Obama's transition team for arts and humanities.

As the foreclosure crisis continues to sow misery in Northeast Ohio, HUD which has owned more than 2,000 homes in Cuyahoga County in the last few years alone, has helped perpetuate the fallout with policies that, at times, makes the agency no better than a slum landlord or seller who flips properties without compunction, critics say.

Every afternoon, seven days a week, Ed Epley has a 5 p.m. appointment with the war.