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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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  • Founder plays blame game on Fisker failure

    Michal Conger

    Updated: Wed, Apr 24, 2013

    Henrik Fisker, co-founder and namesake of Fisker Automotive, blames many factors for his company’s failure – everything but the company itself. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will grill Fisker and other company executives this afternoon on the Department of Energy’s...

  • School districts hide taxpayer money used to fund lobbying

    Michal Conger

    Published: Tue, Apr 23, 2013

    Public school officials across Michigan are secretly spending tax dollars on political lobbying, according to a report by the Michigan-based Mackinac Center. Education administrators are required by Michigan law to make public their lobbying expenditures, but that isn’t happening in Oakland,...

  • Majority of firearms dealers haven’t been inspected in 5 years

    Michal Conger

    Published: Tue, Apr 23, 2013

    More than half of licensed gun dealers haven’t been inspected by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in at least five years, allowing dealers who have violated federal firearms laws to go undetected for years, according to a new report by the U.S. Department of Justice...

  • Obama labor nominee’s record makes strong case against confirmation

    Michal Conger

    Updated: Tue, Apr 23, 2013

    Thomas Perez, President Obama’s Secretary of Labor nominee, has an egregious record of flouting the law and Congress, most recently in an email scandal that rivals that of former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson, according to Quin Hillyer. Perez illegally used...

  • DOE seizes $21 million from Fisker

    Michal Conger

    Published: Tue, Apr 23, 2013

    Fisker Automotive missed a payment on its loan from the Department of Energy on Monday, but the DOE said yesterday it seized $21 million from the company’s account 12 days ago in anticipation of a default. “Given the obvious difficulties the company is facing, we are taking strong and...

  • Environmentalist’s Earth Day message: More fracking, fewer solar subsidies

    Michal Conger

    Published: Mon, Apr 22, 2013

    More fracking and fewer green subsidies are the most effective answers to global warming, said left-leaning environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg today.  Fracking is a drilling practice that extracts natural gas and oil from shale rock formations by injecting water and chemicals deep underground...

  • Improper contract management may be costing Air Force

    Michal Conger

    Published: Sat, Apr 20, 2013

    Billions of dollars in Air Force projects may have cost more than they were worth, according to a report by the Inspector General for the Department of Defense. For almost half the projects the DOD IG reviewed, worth almost $9 billion, the Air Force didn’t properly enforce rules that keep...

  • Moody’s: CalPERS rate hike will be good for California

    Michal Conger

    Updated: Fri, Apr 19, 2013

    A steep rate hike by California’s largest public pension fund will force cities to tighten their belts, but will make the state more financially stable, according to Moody’s Investors Service. “Despite the near-term pressure, in the long run, the increased contributions are likely to...

  • U.S. pouring millions into struggling Afghan power utility

    Michal Conger

    Updated: Thu, Apr 18, 2013

    U.S. reconstruction agencies have poured millions of dollars into Afghanistan’s national power utility, but poor management and insufficient infrastructure have wasted hundreds of thousands of those dollars and hindered the utility’s goal of becoming self-sufficient, according to a new...

  • The taco that created 15,000 jobs

    Michal Conger

    Updated: Thu, Apr 18, 2013

    Taco Bell’s Doritos Locos Taco is wildly popular — so popular that it created 15,000 jobs for the company last year. When the first Doritos Locos taco was introduced in March 2012, the fast-food chain had to hire two or three new employees for each of its 6,000 stores to keep up with demand...


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