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Michal Conger is a Washington Examiner Opinion staff writer. She attended school at Hillsdale College and previously worked at the Washington Times.

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  • FDA rolls back dire warnings on food inspections

    Michal Conger

    Updated: Tue, May 7, 2013

    Food and Drug Administration officials are backing off dire predictions that sequestration would endanger public health by eliminating thousands of food safety inspections, saying today the agency hopes not to cut inspections after all. The FDA’s initial estimate was that as many as 2,100...

  • Local governments spending more to do less

    Michal Conger

    Updated: Mon, May 6, 2013

    Local governments are spending less on public services because public employee retirement costs are eating up an ever-greater chunk of their budgets, according to a new study by the Manhattan Institute. “As governments pay more and more for these benefits… policymakers find that...

  • Michelle Obama: Chicago school kids fear for their lives every day

    Michal Conger

    Published: Fri, May 3, 2013

    A group of Chicago high school students told First lady Michelle Obama they fear for their lives every day, she said in an interview with CBS’s Lee Cowan that will air on Sunday. During a visit to Harper High School, students shared stories with her  “of how every day they wake...

  • Forest Service demands states return timber money, blames sequester

    Michal Conger

    Published: Fri, May 3, 2013

    Many timber-heavy states depend on logging for revenue, including a hefty share of money generated from logging on federal lands. But the U.S. Forest Service is asking those states to return 5 percent of the checks they just received and blaming sequestration. The Forest Service in March...

  • Flood of new regulations made Obama’s first term costliest in history

    Michal Conger

    Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

    A torrent of regulations enacted over the last four years make President Obama’s the most expensive first term in history, with $70 billion in new annual regulatory costs, according to a study released Wednesday by the Heritage Foundation. The Obama administration passed 131 major...

  • Sales lag far behind Obama’s goals as consumers say no to electric vehicles

    Michal Conger

    Updated: Thu, May 2, 2013

    Electric car sales lag far behind President Obama’s ambitious electric vehicle goals, as Chevy reports an 11 percent drop in Volt sales in April, and Nissan a 15 percent drop compared to March’s monthly record of 2,236. Leaf sales plunged despite Nissan’s decision to lower the EV’s...

  • Reid on Obamacare train wreck: I agree with Baucus

    Michal Conger

    Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said yesterday he agrees with Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., that Obamacare will be a “huge train wreck” if the administration doesn’t change the way it’s implementing the law. Reid made the comments during a radio interview on the Rusty Humphries...

  • L.A. city council member: ‘End of journalism’ if Koch brothers buy L.A. Times

    Michal Conger

    Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

    A Los Angeles city councilman predicts a journalistic apocalypse if a couple of libertarian billionaires from Kansas buy the local daily newspaper. Councilman Bill Rosendahl said in an official motion on Tuesday the Los Angeles should pull city employee and retiree pension money from the...

  • Sturm, Ruger credits gun control debate for record sales

    Michal Conger

    Published: Tue, Apr 30, 2013

    Gun maker Sturm, Ruger & Co. said Monday it saw record sales in its first quarter this year, and the gun control debate has driven demand so high the company is looking for a third factory to keep up. Gun sales spiked about 39 percent in the first quarter from the same period a year...

  • U.S. spends millions on hospitals Afghanistan can't afford to run

    Michal Conger

    Published: Tue, Apr 30, 2013

    Two hospitals being built in Afghanistan through U.S. reconstruction aid are financially unsustainable and cost five times as much as the ones they are replacing, U.S. inspectors have found.  The same review also found a majority of Afghan provincial hospitals run by the U.S. government are...


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