Mayor de Blasio is paving the way for hefty raises for himself and other elected officials. (nypost.com)
Biomedicine may have done well so far in the economic downturn, but the largest coalition of U.S. biomedical researchers is warning of dire consequences if the National Institutes of Health doesn't continue to get hefty raises. (sciencemag.org)
Representative Paul Tonko, the ranking Democrat on the House Energy's subcommittee on the Environment, pressed Mr. Pruitt on his claims that he was unaware that the E.P.A. had used an obscure legal provision to grant hefty raises to political appointees, bypassing approval by the White House. (nytimes.com)