SPB News for Sunday.

The wired homeless in San Francisco
No mailing address, but some own laptops and have internet access.

Bush-Clinton Policy Talk Strikes a Congenial Tone

Update on Recovery Act Lobbying Rules: New Limits on Special Interest Influence — Another update from Norm Eisen, special counsel to the president for ethics and government reform, in the spirit of transparency as always: — I am writing with an update on the President's March 20 …

U.S. Rep. John Sullivan checks in to Betty Ford clinic — WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. John Sullivan, who has spoken openly about former problems with drinking, announced Friday that he has checked himself into a treatment center to seek help for his alcohol addiction.

KBR faults media in coverage of electrocution issue Former [Cheney] Halliburton subsidiary KBR Inc. on Friday accused media outlets of using electrocution death statistics to fuel a "politically-driven campaign" against the company. A statement released by KBR's interim president of government and infrastructure, William Bodie [Bill.Bodie@KBR.com], objected to "false reports and innuendo" in a New York-based newspaper and other media outlets concerning electrical issues in Iraq, where the Houston-based firm holds more than $16 billion in government contracts for services at thousands of U.S.-controlled facilities.

Latest budget proposal eliminates CalWORKs, lets out inmates early ...Several of the latest cuts were eye-openers, but the largest was the wholesale elimination of the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Program, which provides grants to parents that people commonly refer to as "welfare." Nearly 1.3 million Californians received CalWORKs payments in February, almost 1 million of whom were children. The state would save $1.3 billion next year by eliminating CalWORKs but lose three times as much in federal funds. "It boggles the mind that California would be the only state in the Union without a CalWORKs-type program," said Frank Mecca, executive director of the County Welfare Directors Association. "In fact, we'd be, to our knowledge, the only state in a country in the entire First World not to have subsistence benefits for children."