RICHMOND, Va. — As awards go, this one was nice enough. The honor that Virginia Gov. Mark Warner received the other night from the Council of Chief State School Officers...
Coretha Henderson made her 14-year-old daughter stand on an Oklahoma City street corner wearing a sign that said:
"I don't do my homework and I act up in school, so my p...
Thanksgiving Day is a time to remember our many blessings and to celebrate the opportunities that freedom affords. Explorers and settlers arriving in this land often gav...
Now all Americans know for sure what they'll be doing during their golden years: puzzling for weeks over — and perhaps uttering Anglo-Saxon oaths about — the new Medicar...
The government has just begun the largest expansion ever of a federal program to help Americans, and all anyone can do is complain that it isn’t perfect.
This “can’t see...
Congress finally has started to ask some questions about the Defense Department's prime vendor buying program — and it doesn't like the first answers it is hearing. To b...
Congressman John Murtha, Democrat of Pennsylvania, is a retired Marine colonel, decorated Vietnam veteran, ranking member of the House defense appropriations subcommitte...
On the same day that members of Congress were blaming high gas prices on the oil companies and their excessive profits, congressional leaders gave up on their efforts to...
As the General Assembly flailed around trying to undo its mistake of July 7, it clung to its annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) like a drowning sailor to a piece of...
President Bush’s proposal to privatize Social Security partly has been twisting in the wind for so long that hardly anybody noticed last week when a key senator official...
