White House: Limit gov’t backing of mortgages

Spaull attending White House ceremony

By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: July 11, 2012
Tags: Councilwoman Elaine Spaull, White House

Councilwoman Elaine Spaull planned to be in Washington, D.C., today to attend the White House Champions of Change Ceremony in the Executive Office Building. She was invited by the White House Office of Public Engagement and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness to the event, which will honor 13 people who have positively changed homelessness [...]

Woman accused of Obama threat to be evaluated

By Denise Champagne
POSTED: March 13, 2012
Tags: President Barack Obama, Rochester woman, threat, White House

A mental health evaluation will be scheduled for a Rochester woman accused of threatening to kill President Barack Obama after complaining about child custody laws. Federal Magistrate Judge Jonathan W. Feldman ordered the evaluation Tuesday after making the motion himself in U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York, based on pre-trial records [...]

Proposed White House budget outlines legal priorities

By Kimberly Atkins
POSTED: March 2, 2012
Tags: fiscal 2013, legal priorities, President Barack Obama, proposed budget, White House

The proposed fiscal 2013 budget released by the White House in February outlines a number of the administration’s priorities related to lawyers, from an increase in enforcement of federal employment and labor laws to more focused attention on food and drug safety and immigration enforcement. A boost in employment-related enforcement The Department of Labor’s budget [...]

Slight increase urged for Legal Services funding

By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: February 16, 2012
Tags: funding, Legal Services Corp., White House

The White House is recommending $402 million in funding for the Legal Services Corp. in fiscal 2013, which starts Oct. 1. That is an increase of $54 million from current funding, but significantly less than requested and less than what was approved for 2011. About 94 percent of the White House request — $376.8 million [...]

Local attorney headed to White House briefing

By Denise Champagne
POSTED: February 8, 2012
Tags: Community Leaders Briefing, John Schuppenhauer, NYSARC Inc., White House

A Canandaigua attorney is headed to the White House. John A. “Jack” Schuppenhauer, a private practitioner who is also president of NYSARC Inc., has been invited by the Obama administration to attend a special White House “Community Leaders Briefing” on Friday. “NYSARC is one of the largest not-for-profit organizations serving people with intellectual disabilities in [...]

Young businesswoman making an ‘Empact’

By Denise Champagne
POSTED: December 9, 2011
Tags: Amy Castronova, Novatek Communications, White House, young entrepreneurs

Amy Castronova of Webster was still in college when she bought and started running a business. Not even a decade later, she was invited to the White House last month as one of the country’s top 100 entrepreneurs aged 30 or less. Castronova is the president and CEO of Novatek Communications Inc., which has evolved [...]

Idaho man charged with trying to assassinate Obama

By The Associated Press
POSTED: November 17, 2011
Tags: arrest, President Barack Obama, shots fired, White House

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho man accused of firing an assault rifle at the White House believed he was Jesus and thought President Barack Obama was the anti-Christ, according to court documents and those who knew him. At one point, he even suggested to an acquaintance the president was planning to implant computer tracking chips [...]

Obama kicks off Twitter town hall with a tweet

By The Associated Press
POSTED: July 6, 2011
Tags: President Barack Obama, social media, town hall, Twitter, White House

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama kicked off his first Twitter town hall with — what else? — a tweet. Using a laptop set up on a podium in the East Room of the White House, Obama typed this message: “In order to reduce the deficit, what costs would you cut and what investments would you keep?”

Raise taxes on wealthiest, Obama challenges GOP

By The Associated Press
POSTED: June 29, 2011
Tags: Congress, deficit reduction plan, GOP, President Barack Obama, press conference, raise taxes, wealthiest, White House

WASHINGTON — In a blunt challenge to Republicans in Congress, President Barack Obama insisted Wednesday that elimination of selected tax breaks for oil companies and the super-wealthy must be included in any deficit reduction plan.

Obama: Don’t send health care appeals straight to High Court

By Kimberly Atkins
POSTED: March 16, 2011
Tags: appeal, appellate courts, health care law, SCOTUS, White House

The Obama administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court not to take up an appeal of the health care challenge until it has gone through the federal appellate court process. A federal court in Virginia invalidated the portion …

NLRB backs off warning that budget would force shutdown

By Dolan Media Newswires
POSTED: February 28, 2011
Tags: budget plan, furloughs, NLRB, shutdown, White House

After National Labor Relations Board officials warned in a statement that the budget proposed by House lawmakers would force the agency to close its offices and furlough its 1,665 employees for three months, the Board has backed off at the request of the White House.