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Obama to Create White House Office of Urban Policy
On National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" yesterday, longtime Obama family friend and Obama-Biden Transition Team co-chair Valerie Jarrett said that the President-elect would, as pledged during the campaign, create an Office of Urban Policy. Listen HERE. Jarrett said the...
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change.gov — Create a White House Office on Urban Policy: Obama and Biden will create a White House Office... of Urban Policy to develop a strategy for metropolitan America and to ensure that all federal dollars targeted to urban areas are effectively spent on the ... (more) Urban Policy
White House to Establish Office of Urban Policy
voices.washingtonpost.com — By Al Kamen The intense back-stabbing amongst Democrats for top jobs in the Obama administration assumes there... are a fixed number of jobs worth having. But it's looking likely that some extremely choice, even consequential, jobs are going to be ... (more) White House to Establish Office of Urban Policy
Obama White House will have an Office of Urban Policy.
thinkprogress.org — Valerie Jarrett, transition co-chair for President-elect Barack Obama, announced that the Obama administration would create a White... House chief of urban policy . Since there are “so many different agencies that really can impact urban ... (more) Obama White House will have an Office of Urban Policy.
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Carol Platt Liebau: Sauce for the Goose . . .
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... . I understand and sympathize with any parent's desire to obtain the best possible education for her children. But given the Obamas' opposition to school choice for the many other parents living in DC who don't have their wealth, it's profoundly hypocritical for the President-elect and his wife implicitly to decide that the education to which they're willing to relegate poor DC children isn't quite good enough for their daughters. Apparently, the Obama Administration intends to create an Office of Urban Policy . Given the fact that there's no mention of any education ...

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Ben Smith's Blog — Change by Zoolander. Valerie Jarrett talks about the new White House Office of Urban Policy. The big list of political jobs. Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) apologizes for violating Godwin's Law. Warren Christopher won't play a transition role. The artistic director of Sacramento's Musical Theatre donated money to an anti-gay marriage group, which Andrew Sullivan thinks isn't a great career move. Nate Silver argues that Obama's new voters, who were mostly young, actually mostly voted against ...

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