President Barack Obama took questions from the White House press corps on Tuesday in a prime-time, East Room session that represented the most formal and time-honored of president-and-reporter interactions. On Thursday, he is taking to that same room for another public grilling — this time by regular folks armed with questions submitted via the Internet and in person, as part of a political strategy to engage Americans directly. ...more

March 26, 2009

Our school system needs to make serious inroads into the education of the bottom 50 percent of our students. ...more

March 13, 2009

It is probably a sign that things are hardly going gangbusters for your presidential campaign when your police escort is larger than the crowd of supporters who show up to cheer you on. ...more

November 1, 2008

One of this year's city council races pits two former council members against one another. ...more

September 20, 2008

So far, State Sen. J.D. Alexander has raised $337,000 against Scott Thompson, who has yet to gather $10,000. ...more

August 25, 2008

So the GOP has found its issue for the 2008 election. For the next three months the party plans to keep chanting: "Drill here! Drill now! Drill here! Drill now! Four legs good, two legs bad!" OK, I added that last part. ...more

August 13, 2008

Sheriff David Gee and Clerk of Court Pat Frank each secured another four-year term Friday when the deadline passed for candidates to qualify to run, and nobody vied for their seats. ...more

June 21, 2008

watching Mitt Romney go down to defeat in nearly every contest and encountering a newly victorious but ultimately unnominatable Mike Huckabee all across the Bible Belt. ...more

February 7, 2008

Some are inspired. Some are strategy plotters. Others are downright mad. ...more

January 4, 2008

Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama made an enormous mistake over the weekend by pledging not to campaign in Florida before the state's presidential primary on Jan. 29. ...more

September 5, 2007