While Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling of Virginia ponders a possible independent bid for governor, another independent candidate — one who is arguably better known than the lieutenant governor — is already busy collecting the 10,000 valid signatures necessary to appear on the November ballot against […]
Two years after Gov. Chris Christie’s administration approved a $261 million package of tax incentives for the Revel Casino, the glittering centerpiece of an ambitious plan put forward by the governor to revitalize Atlantic City, the city’s newest casino announced earlier this week that it plans […]
Former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión, Jr., received the endorsement of the Independence Party last night in his long-shot bid to become New York City’s first Latino mayor. The endorsement guarantees the former head of the White House’s Office of Urban Affairs and one-time regional […]
Florida law and SCOTUS rulings conflict over the matter of life sentences for minors. The courts and the politicians and the prosecutors and the defenders are all tangled up in what to do about that. It shouldn’t be a big deal, because this is a […]
The Chicago Tribune wasn’t exaggerating in the slightest when it recently described the crowded Democratic primary to replace disgraced former Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., in Illinois’ scandal-plagued second congressional district as “a varied and fascinating” field. How else might one describe a sixteen-candidate field that […]
State Rep. Carl Sciortino, whose state legislative district includes parts of Medford and Somerville, announced on Friday that he plans to seek U.S. Rep. Edward Markey’s seat in the state’s fifth congressional district if the state’s longest-serving congressman wins the June 25 special election to […]
U.S. Reps. Bobby Rush and Danny Davis endorsed former state Representative and Cook County Chief Administrative Officer Robin Kelly yesterday in the crowded 2nd congressional district special Democratic primary. Kelly is one of sixteen Democrats competing in the February 26 primary to replace disgraced former […]
Allyson Schwartz, a five-term Democratic congresswoman representing a suburban Philadelphia district, is seriously eyeing a bid for governor of Pennsylvania next year. Word of Schwartz’s potential candidacy was confirmed late last night by Rachel Magnuson, her chief of staff, at a meeting of the party’s […]
Getting a brief jump on his rivals, Sen. Alan Cranston of California launched a long-shot bid for the White House thirty years ago this week in the marble-columned Senate Caucus Room — the same place that George McGovern had announced his antiwar candidacy more than a […]
An investment in the Cayman Islands could spell trouble for Jack Lew, President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, when he appears before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday. At issue are Lew’s previous holdings — estimated to have been between $50,000 to $100,000 — in […]
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