Our snow-delayed event with H&R Block’s Tax Institute has been rescheduled for

Thursday, Feb. 26
9 a.m.
McClendon Room, National Press Club

Amy McArarney, the head of H&R Block’s independent tax research arm, The Tax Institute, will speak with RRA members to share the implications of pending legislation and resources the group has to bring DC tax policies and proposals to readers back home.

Please RSVP so I can get an accurate count.

Thomas Burr
RRA President
president@rra.org

The latest from our “share your stories” feature:

Headline: Legislative sausage-making: How a bill does not become a law
Description: At the height of the health care debate, I did a story about the amendments our senators had filed. I figured I’d pick one and journal it from inception to passage as a nice little “how a bill becomes a law” bit. So in the interest of getting a successful one, I selected a one-word amendment that Democrats had pretty unanimously backed, seemed to simply correct an oversight in the bill drafting and even had a Republican co-sponsor.
Link: http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2010/01/12/14823/legislative_sausage-making_how_a_bill_does_not_become_a_law
Byline: Derek Wallbank, MinnPost, dwallbank@minnpost.com

Yesterday we put our new rra.org design online, and one of the features is a page where members can submit their stories for the group to see. Since no one ever likes to go first, I thought I’d break the ice and share a piece of mine that ran today.

Headline: Who bankrolls North Jersey House campaigns
Description: A look at 2009 contributions to three North Jersey House members and how those checks intersect with the Congressmen’s actions on the Hill.
Link: http://bit.ly/c9RRIk
By: Herb Jackson, The Record, jackson@northjersey.com