Firms on Washington DC's lobbying row, K Street, are "aggressively courting GOP lawmakers who have announced their retirements, suggesting that the business community is confident the GOP will retain the Speaker's gavel in January." The trend "is stoking talk on Capitol Hill that the 'K Street Project'" - an effort launched by Grover Norquist and

The New York Times profiles Jim Steets, Entergy Nuclear Northeast's external communications manager, who, we learn, has "an easy smile"; waxes "rhapsodic about the benefits and proficiencies of Indian Point," a nuclear power plant near New York City; and is "boyish-looking" and "well, a nice guy." In a shorter piece (albeit one further up in the paper), the Times reports that a Government Accountability Office audito

Former White House press secretary Mike McCurry joins the Kerry-Edwards campaign as a senior media advisor this week. The Associated Press writes that "the hiring is an acknowledgment that Kerry and his team have failed to communicate a concise, persuasive argument." McCurry served as press secretary from 1995 to 1998, helping former President Bill Clinton through the Monica Lewinsky scandal.