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David Lightman was the Hartford Courant's Washington Bureau Chief for 23 years before joining the McClatchy Washington Bureau in October. He has covered every presidential campaign since 1980, and earlier this year won the David Lynch award for outstanding regional reporting in Washington.
From 1971 to 1981 he worked for the Baltimore Evening Sun, where he covered the Maryland legislature, and, from 1978 to 1981, was the paper's chief Annapolis correspondent. He joined the Courant in 1981 as a reporter.
A Washington, D.C. native, he has also worked for the Hagerstown (Md.) Morning Herald and the Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise.
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Trillion-dollar deficit looms, but what will the candidates do?
By David Lightman | McClatchy Newspapers
The ambitious spending and tax cut plans that Barack Obama and John McCain are promising make no fiscal sense, experts say. "Does either candidate have a realistic budget plan? 'Absolutely not,' said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan research group. » read more
Posted on Tue, October 14, 2008
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