With the regional economy softening and Sacramento threatening to raid local government revenues yet again, the city of San Diego faces a looming deficit in the annual spending plan it adopted only two months ago. The...
The inversion Mike noted last night has been so complete that it's already prompting Freudian slips such as this one from Marc Ambinder:Gov. Sarah Palin may well draw larger crowds than Sen. John McCain ever did, and the...
The soap opera around the family life of Republican vice presidential pick Sarah Palin's has proved fertile for late-night talk-show monologues this week, although the hosts have occasionally taken a bipartisan theme....
All my days I was raised among the wise, and I discovered that there is nothing better for a person than silence. (Talmud Brachot) Murphy's Law and its many corollaries are always good for a grim chuckle. Oddly enough, I...
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., visited Hewlett Packard’s headquarters and spoke to corporate executives, workers and media in Palo Alto, California, on Tuesday, offering brief remarks about the Democratic Party’s prospects...
The Republican National Convention is supposed to generate nearly $150 million in new spending for the Twin Cities area. It's also generating some positive reviews for the area. "Twin Citians have a humble sort of pride...
First came the toasts, then came the food, a representative sampling of why people have been shopping at Corti Brothers since 1947 - assorted cheeses, ravioli, salami, fruit. An estimated 250 persons gathered on the hot...
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Both are California women. Both are wealthy Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. Both were considered vice presidential contenders. Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay, strides across the convention stage where she...
By now we are all used to conservative talking heads who take their talking points from the Republican Party and seldom if ever give their honest opinion on air. But what are major conservative talking heads saying about...
Palin speech aims to give RNC 'shot in the arm' ST. PAUL, MN -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was expected Wednesday to give the Republican National Convention something that it needs: a shot in the arm. It's not that there...