BERLIN - Guido Westerwelle is head of Germany's business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP), with whom Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to share power after an election on Sunday. If his party ends up in government, he is widely expected to become...
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus heard some encouraging words Wednesday from a key centrist Democrat as he opened the second day of a committee meeting to debate and vote on his sweeping health overhaul bill. Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas said she only...
WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus heard some encouraging words Wednesday from a key centrist Democrat as he opened the second day of a committee meeting to debate and vote on his sweeping health overhaul bill. Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas...
Brian Kemp, former state senator and a Republican candidate for secretary of state, set up a website where Georgia residents can report fraud and any other elections problems,...
-- For weeks the media have been covering "racism in health care reform opposition." For the most part I've found this political moment to be an interesting opportunity to discuss the meanings of race, the history of racial exclusion and violence, and the...
POINT PLEASANT - Borough police confirmed Tuesday that they are investigating a confrontation Mayor Martin C. Konkus said he had with former Ocean County Democratic Chairman Fred Potter. Potter's wife, Anna, is a Democratic candidate for Borough Council in the Nov. 3...
Comments NEW YORK (Map, News) - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg leveled a rare attack on the Democrat aiming to unseat him, comparing their records on education in the most pointed dispute since the general election began last week. At his regular news conference...
Comments COLUMBUS, Ohio (Map, News) - A tax increase is still not a good course of action in light of a court decision on slot machines jeopardizing nearly $1 billion in schoolfunding, but it would be "foolish" to rule it out before considering all options, Gov. Ted...
Your report (, 21 September) says that Lib Dems have put plans to scrap fees on hold until the economy recovers – a view also set out by Polly Toynbee (, 19 September), who said the party has abandoned its opposition to fees. This is not the case. Our party makes policy...
Perhaps you don't sit around with your friends swapping anecdotes about the Liberals. Just guessing. And that means you haven't heard about the mattress. Back when the Liberal Party was fighting for control of Liverpool, so the story goes, they purchased a smelly old...
ALBANY, N.Y. - Gov. David Paterson of New York is refusing to bend under pressure from top Democrats to get out of the 2010 race for governor to make way for state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Paterson says he won't give up even though leaders of his own party say he...
