CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — This week, I got an e-mail from a colleague on the Gulf Coast who is pretty blue about where we as a country are headed. His reasoning, though, isn’t anything you’ve seen on a sign at a Tea Party rally: “I get a real sadness about what is to come,” he wrote. [...]
President Obama’s health care reform law continues to be unpopular, especially among seniors, and will likely play a major role in Tuesday’s elections. According to a Kaiser Health Tracking poll, “about a third (32 percent) of seniors hold favorable views [of the health care reform bill, and] half (52 percent) [hold] unfavorable views.” The opposition [...]
This article by investigative journalist Sheila Kaplan is the first in a series supported by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University’s School of Communication. Politics Daily will publish the remaining installments in the weeks to come. Fire retardants in baby blankets, nano-particles in cosmetics, plastics in water bottles and anti-bacterial agents in soaps. Experts [...]
D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee has announced she will leave her post at the end of the month, a development seen by supporters as a blow to education reform. The decision comes after weeks of speculation about Rhee’s future in the wake of Mayor Adrian Fenty’s loss to Vincent Gray in September’s Democratic primary election. [...]
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Connecticut’s two Senate candidates went to the mat Monday, squaring off over jobs, the minimum wage, taxes, health care and attack ads. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal grappled with Republican Linda McMahon, the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, in their first debate of the season. The two are running for the seat held by retiring [...]
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