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Hyper Hill: Don’t Pee in Your Coworker’s Coffee
House of Cards not getting that big tax break after all [sorry Spacey] The Nationals beat Miamiiiii[iiiiiiiiii] Peeing in your coworker’s coffee [not a good idea] Bob Cusack, The Hill’s managing editor, will [make an appearance on Veep, NBD] Major website security flaw discovered [change your passwords on Friday] Love …
DC’s Top Lobbyists
In case you missed it, The Hill came out with their list of 2012’s Top Lobbyists yesterday. A few of the familiar faces include: Tucker Foote, MasterCard; Bryan Anderson, Southern Company; Joel Kaplan, Facebook; Kent Knutson, Home Depot; Matt Tanielian, Franklin Square Group; Sam Geduldig, Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford; …
R.I.P. House Page Program
The Hill’s Molly Hooper: House leaders end page program House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced their joint decision to end the House page program. As of August 31, 2011, the program – that employs nearly 70 high school students to serve as messengers and couriers on the …
Capitol Hill Swagger
The Hill’s 50 Most Beautiful for 2011 finally came out today, so you can stop focusing on the debt ceiling. So who has enough style, pizzazz and swagger to be FamousDC? Some of our favorites: Margo Ellis: self-described “6-foot-tall woman with a Marine Corps swagger.” Manoucheka Attime: poise of a woman who knows the …
Famously Engaged: Jared Allen and Jackie Kucinich
Huge news for two of our favorite people. Former Hill reporter turned PR flack, Jared Allen and USA Today’s Jackie Kucinich got engaged last night. Congrats to them both. Photo credit: Pepper Watkins More coverage over at FishbowlDC
Oversight 2.0
The Hill’s Sara Jerome: Issa to public: Which regs hurt? House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (Calif.) is surveying the American people on which government regulations are holding them back.
Eliot Spitzer Found New Job in Yellow Pages
Didn’t Mr. Spitzer get in a little trouble last time he started calling random 800 numbers? The Hill’s Kris Kitto: 20 Questions with Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker So how did this duo come about? Spitzer: The Yellow Pages. TV hosts have an 800 number you can call.
Roll Call Crushing On Patrick O’Connor
Roll Call has the former Hill & Politico reporter – and current Bloomberg News reporter – front and center on RollCall.com
Capitol Hill: Hot in Herre
Strasburg didn’t pitch last night and thousands of fans were disappointed. And then today The Hill’s 50 Most Beautiful People is released. Peaks and valleys, man. Peaks and valleys. Yes, the only power list in Washington that puts staff assistants ahead of Members of Congress and Chiefs of Staff is …
Famous 5: John Stanton
Meet John Stanton: Congressional reporting, fireworks eating, all-American bad ass. Mr. Stanton took a break between covering the SCOTUS madness for Roll Call and brutal Gaelic football practices to answer a few questions for a FamousDC Famous 5 interview. 1. You’ve been on the hill for several years and we …
Do As I Say, Not As I Do
The Hill’s Bob Cusack: After Obama rips lobbyists, K St. insiders get private briefings A day after bashing lobbyists, President Barack Obama’s administration has invited K Street insiders to join private briefings on a range of topics addressed in Wednesday’s State of the Union.
Tom Donohue Still Not on White House Christmas Card List
Ian Swanson: U.S. Chamber opens up 2010 with sweeping attack of Obama policies
The Hill’s 50 Most Beautiful 2010 in The Hollywood Reporter
Will readers of The Hollywood Reporter review The Hill’s 50 Most Beautiful of 2010? Could the hottest hill staffers turn heads in Hollywood? The owner of Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill is buying the Hollywood Reporter TheWrap: Hollywood Reporter Set to be Sold to ‘Who’s Who’s’ Finkelstein h/t Ted Hearn
Hill Newspaper Shows Off Photoshop Skills
Leaving aside for a moment the bizarre choice to superimpose Obama [floating?] over the NYSE trading floor background … is it us, or does it look like The Hill still uses the 1989 version of Photoshop?