Revolving Door at Sacramento City Hall?

Revolving doors are not just features of the Washington D.C. architecture.  Nick Miller, co-editor of the Sacramento News and Review, writes here of the City Hall-Sacramento Kings revolving door.   Conflict of interest?   Miller thinks so.

Pussy Riot on Colbert

Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina, the former members of the Russian group Pussy Riot, who spent over a year in prison for singing a  "silly song in a church" stopped by the Colbert Report to discuss their imprisonment, Vladimir Putin and human rights.  They're remarkable.   Part One and Part Two

D.C's "Revolving Door" Still Spinning

The New Times has a good piece on the "revolving door," which refers to the practice of members of Congress, congressional staffers or regulators leaving public service to go to work for special interests:

A top aide to a Republican congressman from Arizona helped promote a legislative plan to overhaul the nation’s home mortgage finance system. Weeks after leaving his government job, he reappeared on Capitol Hill, now as a lobbyist for a company poised to capitalize on the plan.

A former counsel to Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee left Capitol Hill a year ago. He, too, returned to the Hill just months later, lobbying committee aides on behalf of Wall Street giants like JPMorgan Chase and Bloomberg L.P.

And the chief of staff for the Republican chairman of the House Financial Services Committee left his government salary behind in January 2012. Yet for months afterward, he continued to manage his boss’s re-election campaign, even while serving as a lobbyist for financial industry clients.