Mitt Romney hoped to reinvigorate his presidential prospects with a victory in Maine’s GOP caucuses Saturday while Ron Paul reached for his first triumph in what shaped up as a two-man race because neither Newt Gingrich nor Rick Santorum actively competed in the state. This contest received far less attention than others on the calendar [...]
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The presidential caucus system is under attack after embarrassing contests in Iowa and Nevada put on national display missing ballots, endless counting delays and lots of confusion. The result is Republican activists calling for big change to the antiquated system, particularly to the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses. “All the candidates are out there slogging around at [...]
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Should religious institutions be able to rent public property just like any other community group? If you’re New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the answer is a resounding no, a decision that has angered local communities and is poised to kick out dozens churches from meeting in New York City public schools even though other [...]
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Indiana, which seems like it’s on a jobs roll, got some more good news on Wednesday. Toyota will invest $400 million in its plant in Princeton, and add 400 new jobs. The move, which we reported at Changing Gears, is happening because Toyota is shifting production of the Highlander, a mid-sized SUV, to Princeton from [...]
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A fourth staffer at a Los Angeles elementary school is under investigation for inappropriate conduct with a student after the boy’s mother went public with a classroom aide’s love letters to her fourth grade son. The Los Angeles Unified School District confirmed to ABC News today that Areceli Luisjuan, a teacher’s aide, was investigated for [...]
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down California’s voter-mandated ban on gay marriages, but stopped short of finding that other states or the federal government were required to recognize same-sex marriage. The decision sets the stage for the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on gay marriage as soon as next year, and could [...]
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There goes Nebraska. Bob Kerrey’s decision against a Senate bid in the Cornhusker State deals a crushing blow to Democrats, who saw the former senator as their last best chance at holding the seat of retiring Sen. Ben Nelson. “What I wanted to do was run, what I needed to do is make sure I [...]
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If you are on a public street and take pictures or video of Memphis Police with your cell phone, you could end up in the back of a squad car and your pictures could be deleted. ABC 24 News photographer Casey Monroe said that’s what happened to him Sunday morning. Police never charged Monroe with [...]
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A jury on Monday convicted a senior Democrat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on all but one of six charges in the latest corruption trial stemming from a five-year investigation into the use of taxpayers’ resources for political purposes. Rep. Bill DeWeese was convicted of felony counts of conspiracy, conflict of interest and three [...]
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday will decide the legality of Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage. In a brief announcement released Monday morning, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it planned to release the long-awaited ruling by 10 a.m. tomorrow. The appeals court is reviewing a federal judge’s 2010 ruling striking [...]
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The rival mayors of last night’s game – New York City versus Boston – ran a commercial for MAIG (Mayors Against Illegal Guns). Michael Bloomberg of New York City and Thomas Menino of Boston teamed together to promote the anti-gun organization that they co-founded in 2006. Sitting together on a couch, the two mayors claim [...]
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Dozens of U.S. Park Police officers in riot gear and on horseback converged before dawn Saturday on one of the nation’s last remaining Occupy sites, with police clearing the grounds of tents that they said were banned under park rules. That move left large swaths of open space and raised questions about exactly what would [...]
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In a profanity-laced tirade, a Memphis DJ last week used an on-air interview to berate a local Republican congressional candidate — calling her a “token negro” who is doing the bidding of “white folk.” DJ Thaddeus Matthews called Charlotte Bergmann, who is black, “stupid.” He referred to her as a “curly-haired nigga.” When she walked [...]
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Republican U.S. presidential candidate Newt Gingrich inserted himself into the long-running controversy about whether religious groups should be allowed to hold services in New York City public schools, and accused Mayor Michael Bloomberg of being “anti-religious.” Gingrich made his comments on Friday in a speech to a coalition of religious leaders in Las Vegas ahead [...]
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The legislature of Washington State is considering a bill that will declare gold and silver legal tender within the state. This ought to have been done long ago, by all the states. Long ago, I mean, as early as 1871 when the Supreme Court overruled its own decision of two years earlier in Hepburn v. Griswold that the [...]
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