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January 5, 2009

Inaugural holds appeal for some

HARRISBURG — Some Pennsylvanians already have canceled plans to attend this month’s historic presidential inauguration — unnerved by the specter of millions of people jamming the nation’s capital, potential gridlock on the highways, a scarcity of affordable hotel rooms and possible inclement weather.

January 4, 2009

Ending earmarks to be hard for Obama

SEATTLE — Barack Obama promises to change the way business is done in Washington.

January 2, 2009

Vacation finished, Obama heads for Washington and work

KAILUA, Hawaii — President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday bid his native Hawaii “aloha” after a 12-day vacation.

December 29, 2008

Obama’s tax cuts still on

WASHINGTON — A top adviser to President-elect Barack Obama said Sunday that the country’s slowing economy won’t keep the new administration from fulfilling its plans for a middle-class tax cut.

December 27, 2008

Inauguration vendors’ big payday

WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama’s swearing-in could be a boon for Said Rangbar, among hundreds of people hoping to cash in on Inauguration Day.

December 26, 2008

Obama’s Cabinet choices create scramble in states

WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama’s Cabinet choices have sent a ripple through state politics, fostering behind-the-scenes jockeying to fill key vacancies in the shadow of the Chicago scandal over filling Obama’s Senate seat.

December 20, 2008

Obama: Business will revive

CHICAGO — Completing his Cabinet a month before taking office, President-elect Barack Obama named officials to oversee transportation, labor, trade and small business policy Friday but warned that economic recovery won’t be nearly as swift.

December 19, 2008

For prayer, Obama splits the ticket

The clergy chosen by President-elect Barack Obama to pray at his inauguration fill separate symbolic roles: One is a nod to the civil rights activists who made Obama’s election possible. The other is an overture to conservative Christians who rankles some Obama supporters.

December 19, 2008

Pro-union Solis Obama’s pick to head Labor Department

WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to be labor secretary, Democratic Rep. Hilda Solis of California, is expected to advocate greater union influence in the workplace and more “green” jobs.

December 16, 2008

Team Obama forming

WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama plans to name Democratic Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado to run the Interior Department, rounding out an environmental and energy team charged with quickly tackling global warming and developing alternative forms of energy.

December 15, 2008

Obama’s urban home poses new security challenges

CHICAGO — When President-elect Barack Obama heads home for a break from the White House, he won’t go to a sprawling ranch or private seaside compound.

December 13, 2008

Can Obama give up smoking?

WASHINGTON — Of all the things President-elect Barack Obama needs right now, one of them surely isn’t a new set of lofty expectations on his well-burdened shoulders.

December 3, 2008

Richardson named commerce secretary

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) _ Gov. Bill Richardson has landed a job in President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet, setting the stage for a rare and historic midterm transition of power in New Mexico.

December 2, 2008

Obama tabs ‘strong personalities’

CHICAGO — Barack Obama announced a national security team Monday headed by Hillary Rodham Clinton, who fought him long and bitterly for the presidency, and Robert Gates, the man who has been running two wars for George W. Bush — striking choices by a president-elect who declared he wanted “strong personalities and strong opinions.”

December 2, 2008

Area Clinton backers pleased with choice

President-elect Barack Obama’s announcement Monday that he would nominate former rival Sen. Hillary Clinton to be his secretary of state is being met favorably, though with some surprise, by area Clinton supporters.

December 1, 2008

Obama announces Clinton, Gates for Cabinet

CHICAGO (AP) _ President-elect Barack Obama picked a national security team headed by former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bush administration holdover Robert Gates on Monday.

December 1, 2008

Obama to name 4 more to Cabinet

WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama plans to announce longtime advisers and political foes alike as his picks for top administration jobs at a news conference today, nominating one-time political nemesis Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state.

November 30, 2008

Obama to name Clinton on Monday

President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as his secretary of state on Monday, transforming a once-bitter political rivalry into a high-level strategic and diplomatic partnership.

November 29, 2008

New White House style

SAN JOSE, Calif. — John Quincy Adams sought relief from the pressures of the presidency by sneaking away from the White House for nude dips in the Potomac. Warren G. Harding, who presided over one of the most inept administrations in history, was such a lousy poker player he once gambled away the White House china. And after a tough day in the Oval Office, Andrew Jackson liked to unwind behind the executive mansion watching cockfights.