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Andy Kim

Andy Kim

Former Staff Writer

Andy Kim is a former GOVERNING staff writer. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin's School of Journalism, he has also worked in advertising as a copywriter.

Who Said That
You’re kidding me, 45 percent and you’re golden?
Barmak Nassirian of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers — expressing his concern about granting federal aid to for-profit colleges where only 45 percent of the graduates are repaying their principal on their loans.
July 23, 2010
 · Andy Kim
News in Numbers
$650,000
The expected annual pension payments Robert Rizzo, chief administrative officer of Bell, Calif., will receive for the rest of his life – making him the highest-paid retiree in the California state pension system.
July 23, 2010
 · Andy Kim
News in Numbers
$20.3 Million
Amount of rebate funds still available for consumers in California's Cash for Appliances program. The program started three months ago with a little over $30 million dollars in rebates.
July 22, 2010
 · Andy Kim
Who Said That
There will be no more taxpayer-funded bailouts. Period.
President Barack Obama — before signing a sweeping extension of federal financial regulation, a response to the 2008 financial crisis that tipped the nation into the worst recession since the Great Depression.
July 22, 2010
 · Andy Kim
Who Said That
... Have no expectation of privacy.
A General Services Administration July 2009 order offering guidelines for employee use of social media.
July 21, 2010
 · Andy Kim
News in Numbers
$211,000
The annual permit fees four marijuana production plants in Oakland, Calif., would have to pay to be licensed to grow, package and process unlimited amounts of marijuana.
July 21, 2010
 · Andy Kim
Who Said That
The bill is a cruel hoax. It won't empower women who face pay discrimination...
Michael Steel, spokesman for House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio — insisting that the new pay-equity legislation would give lawyers more reason to file "junk" lawsuits, instead of giving women power to fight unequal pay.
July 20, 2010
 · Andy Kim
News in Numbers
2
The number of data centers – reduced from 35 – now used by 26 Utah agencies.
July 20, 2010
 · Andy Kim
News in Numbers
10
The number of days the Texas Department of Information Resources is giving IBM to come up with a solution to the lingering problems from a seven-year, data center outsourcing contract.
July 19, 2010
 · Andy Kim
Who Said That
She was willing to replace a medical statement with a political statement that was not supported by any existing medical data.
Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop — urging a no vote on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan for her lobbying efforts in changing the language of a statement by American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists on a controversial abortion procedure.
July 19, 2010
 · Andy Kim
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