Bob Collins
Republican presidential hopeful Paul Ryan won the public-image campaign at Sunday’s Packers game. Read more →
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Politics
In his column in the Pioneer Press today, Capitol reporter Bill Salisbury, who’s retiring as a full-time political reporter, echoes a familiar theme over the years since ethics rules were tightened in the ’90s.
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There’s an old saying in sports: if a play is working, just keep running it.
The National Football League ran its stadium play again this month in St. Louis and, just as it has in every other city, it’s working perfectly so far Read more →
If you get your health insurance from your employer, the chances are pretty good that last week your co-pays — the amount you pay just for showing up — went up. So did your out-of-pocket maximum and your deductible. In short, it’s going to cost you a lot more to use your health care.
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Kirby Delauter, the Maryland politician who became a national joke earlier this week when he insisted that a local newspaper not use his name without authorization, has more than redeemed himself. Read more →
The Baseball Hall of Fame balloting is over and all that’s left are the sour grapes. Read more →
Terrorists killed a dozen people in an assault on free speech, but it took a newspaper in New York to deliver the final blow. Read more →
By the time the U.S. Supreme Court gets around to deciding whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, it may be overtaken by events. Read more →
In Maryland, a City Council member in Frederick is threatening to sue the local newspaper for using his name in its stories. Read more →
Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, who died today shortly after his son was inaugurated into another term into his dad’s former job, may well go down as one of the few politicians unable to parlay a stemwinder political convention’s keynote speech into a subsequent endorsement for president. Read more →
There’s no better example of the appearance of questionable ethics in politics than the once brewing 2008 scandal in which a lawsuitclaimed a Minnesota businessman tried to bribe then-Sen. Norm Coleman by funeling money to a business employing Coleman’s wife.
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A shopping mall in Russia has had it with the U.S.-led sanctions against the country in the wake of Russia’s incursion into Ukraine.
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We almost made it all the way through Christmas without a controversy over a Christmas display. Read more →
Back in the day, Cuba was pretty well exploited by American corporations, so a comment from an American CEO on CNBC this morning probably isn’t going to go over big on the island. Read more →
That might have been the best news conference in the administration of President Barack Obama, who has been far too reclusive in his years in office when it comes to answering questions from the media. Read more →