Wednesday, December 24, 2025

White House ballroom vanity project: And the lawsuits just keep on comin'!

 
Headline:  Engineering News Record, 12/23/2025

Public Citizen filed the lawsuit Dec. 22 in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleging that the White House and the U.S. Department of the Interior failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request seeking documents tied to the ballroom project, including records related to planning, approvals and contracting, according to the complaint and a Politico Pro Energy and Environment report. 
“The White House has hidden the truth about how the Park Service is being used as a tool to facilitate Trump’s shady ballroom funding scheme,” said Jon Golinger, a democracy advocate with Public Citizen. “But the American people have the right to know who’s doing what to the People’s House and we are going to find the facts.” 
The lawsuit does not seek to halt construction directly, but it targets documentation underlying the project, which involves demolition of the historic East Wing and construction of a roughly 90,000-sq-ft ballroom on federal property. While the project is privately funded, it is being built within the White House complex, raising questions about how federal oversight, disclosure requirements and preservation laws apply.

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December 2025
Quote from Shalom Baranes, Trump's new White House ballroom architect:  "My work would be impossible without my fellow immigrants".  (12/7)

November 2025
White House Ballroom oversight gaps emerge: Let us count the ways  (Part 1:  National Capital Planning Commission).  (11/18)
What did Donald Trump know about the demolition of the East Wing of White House and when did he know it?  (11/2)

7 years after losing a bid for a third term as Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker is still desperately seeking relevancy

 
He is certainly not going to find it at Newsmax.

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Scott Walker's shameful legacy, cataloged:
2025

2024
Welcome to Scott Walker's Wisconsin legacy:  Trashing higher education edition.  (8/16)

2023

2019
Bashing Madison.  (12/9)
The destructive legacy of Governor Scott "We're # 1" Walker: the 30 billion pound milkman.  (4/27)

2018

Carol Lauffenberger Moldovan (1933-2025) Warren High School class of 1951

 
1951 Dragon yearbook


1967 Warren City Directory

  • Moldovan George (Carol) 106 Pickering Sheffield
1983 Warren City Directory,


The popularity of Carol as a baby name is graphed here.  

Social Security Administration

Edna spent the first 43 years of the 1900s in the top 100, peaking at #12 in 1900.  Here popularity started to increasingly wane after 1950, and she dropped off the chart in 1992.


Other members of the WHS class of 1951 (45):
2024
Anthony Papalia.  (10/7)
Edward Lynch.  (4/23)

2023

Dennis Bonace.  (6/15)

2021
Robert Hampson.  (11/24)
2020
Doris Mason Sadler.  (8/21)