WASHINGTON — Rodney Francis is insufficiently ambitious. The pastor of the Washington Tabernacle Baptist Church in St. Louis has entered the fray over guns, violence and...
Here’s what is most maddening about the “Perils of Pauline” fiscal crises that President Obama and Congress have led us into during the last year: Both sides have known ...
House Republicans often complain that Senate Democrats have been lax on fiscal matters because they haven’t approved a budget resolution since 2009. But those resolution...
On Nov. 21, 2011, the co-chairs of the so-called congressional supercommittee had their own little Appomattox. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash, and Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texa...
OK, so Congress hasn’t managed to pass a budget, fix the tax code or avert the automatic spending cuts of the dreaded “sequester.”
Are they getting anything done on Capi...
WASHINGTON — To the world beyond the Beltway, it might not mean much that Bob Woodward of the famed Watergate duo went public with his recent White House run-in.
This wo...
Butler County is fortunate for a variety of reasons, but its water-rescue capability by way of the newly formed Butler County Water Rescue Team sets it apart from many o...
Describing the routine use of antibiotics in meat and poultry production as a “serious threat to public health,” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2010 called on ...
After more than a year of bitter partisan fighting, Congress on Thursday finally reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act, including new provisions that will extend t...
WASHINGTON — “The worst-case scenario for us,” a leading anti-budget-cuts lobbyist told the Washington Post, “is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens.”
Thin...
