
Opinion & Essay
Do political ads influence your vote?
It’s hard to keep up with the facts at play in an election season — let alone the lies. Do political ads help influence your deci ...
13 years ago
‘Half breed’ versus ‘hermaphrodite’
How weird it is to hear people claim that the 2012 presidential race is the meanest nastiest ugliest scummiest tawdriest in American hist ...
13 years ago
Politics – occasionally a laughing matter
You might expect that politicians, all experienced public speakers and presumably likable people, could stand up and get a few laughs fro ...
13 years ago
The vote that wasn’t stolen after all – State Rep. clarifies his story
I can’t tell you the heartbreak I felt yesterday when I got back to my office and found I’d missed a call from State Rep. Ber ...
13 years ago
Hurricane Isaac, which is on track for southern Florida, is ...
13 years ago
Hide your children – Congressional races are coming
Sometimes as a reporter, a great lead falls into your lap. Like in 1994, when I was reporting on a former TV reporter named Harvey ...
13 years ago
As if the voter ID thing wasn’t screwed up enough
After all the confusion and controversy over Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law, you’d like to think one place you could count o ...
13 years ago
As expected, the Republican platform committee has geared up for the impending national convention by endorsing Todd Akin’s stance ...
13 years ago
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