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Barry Stone, Inspector vetoes open-door policy

DEAR BARRY: Last month we finally got our house into escrow. Everything was moving along smoothly until the buyers hired a home inspector. According to the inspector, the downstairs bedroom is not legal as a sleeping room because it has a doorway directly ... read more

Noam Chomsky on Donald Trump and the 'Me First' Doctrine

President Trump's sudden cancellation of the upcoming denuclearization summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is just the latest example of Trump's wildly erratic approach to foreign policy ... not be subject even to inspection, let alone steps ... read more

Brightlingsea parents consider removing children from school

"We cannot comment on an individual case, but have an open door policy for students or their parents to raise ... An Ofsted spokesman said an unannounced two-day inspection was carried out earlier this month after it was alerted to "ongoing parental ... read more

Gov. Tom Wolf, right on cue, vetoes inspector general bill (and others)

Tom Wolf vetoed a bill Friday to make the Office of Inspector General, which investigates state agencies ... does not amount to sound government policy." The OIG was created by executive order in 1987 and has continued on under the governor's oversight. read more

West Virginia governor vetoes no-permit hidden gun bill

Tomblin cited the same worries when he vetoed a similar bill last year. Unlike last year, though, the GOP-led Legislature has ample time to override Tomblin's veto and cement the bill into law. It only takes a simple majority to override policy vetoes in ... read more

Obama vetoes Keystone XL bill

President Obama on Tuesday vetoed legislation authorizing construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, rebuffing the new Republican-led Congress amid a furious battle over Homeland Security funding. The veto — just the third of Obama’s presidency and ... read more

NYC Mayor Vetoes Bills Attempting To Limit Controversial 'Stop And Frisk' Searches By Police

City Council members who back the measures vowed to override Bloomberg's vetoes. Bloomberg argued that the first measure would create not an inspector general but an official who would rival the police commissioner on law enforcement policy and strategy. read more

Rick Scott Vetoes Bill to Give Illegal Immigrants Driver's Licenses

Rick Scott (R-FL) on Tuesday vetoed a bill that would have required Florida hand ... Scott went on to detail the inconsistencies of immigration policy coming out of Janet Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Security and President Barack Obama’s ... read more

Inspector vetoes open-door policy

Q. Last month we finally got our house into escrow. Everything was moving along smoothly until the buyers hired a home inspector. According to the inspector, the downstairs bedroom is not legal as a sleeping room because it has a doorway directly into the ... read more

Whistleblowers: VA inspector general a 'joke'

One called the department's office of inspector general a "joke." VA whistleblowers from across the country told a Senate committee that the department has failed to hold supervisors accountable more than a year after a scandal that broke over chronic ... read more