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Spin Control archive for Dec. 10, 2011

SATURDAY, DEC. 10, 2011

O'Reilly at war on Washington?

News commentator Bill O’Reilly has been bugged by holiday activities in and around the Capitol for several years, ever since the state allowed atheists to place a sign in the building in 2008. In a recent newscast, he was asking a couple of Culture Warrior…

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City union agrees to contract extension

(This post was updated at 4 p.m. Saturday.) City Adminstrator Ted Danek said Friday that the membership of Local 270, the city's largest union, voted overwhelmingly this week to approve a three-year contract extension. The contract currently expires at the end of 2012. The proposal…

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