Unlike, say, ping-pong with China and wrestling with Iran, golf doesn't have much of a track record as a sport for bringing longtime adversaries together — which only adds another level of intrigue to Saturday's long-anticipated round between President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner.
John Kasich (KAY'-sik), governor in LeBron James' home state of Ohio, has issued a resolution praising the Dallas Mavericks for their NBA title-clinching win Sunday over the Miami Heat.
Elected last fall as part of a nationwide Republican sweep, Govs. John Kasich of Ohio and Rick Scott of Florida have seen their approval ratings tumble into the abysmal range — and Democrats are salivating over the prospect that they will be a drag on the GOP's presidential and congressional candidates in both crucial battleground states in 2012.
The directors of media conglomerate News Corp., the owner of Fox News Channel, have quietly put in place a policy to disclose corporate political donations on the company's website.
In Wymore, Neb., voters got fed up with a councilman who kept leaving meetings. So, on Tuesday, they voted him out in a recall election. It's part of a nationwide pattern as people discover that they don't have to wait until the next election to throw the bums out. In Chattanooga, Tenn., a recall effort against Democratic Mayor Ron Littlefield has been tied up in court since September. Organizers who filed an appeal are not giving up, and they say they expect the case to go to the Tennessee Supreme Court.
The directors of media conglomerate News Corp., the owner of Fox News Channel, have quietly put in place a policy to disclose corporate political donations on the company's website.
President Obama's recent budget speeches have drawn the battle lines for the coming policy debates and likely the next election: the issue of debt, deficits and spending.
A newly elected governor just persuaded his dysfunctional state legislature to close a multibillion-dollar deficit, keep taxes in check and limit annual Medicaid spending. Surely, these must be the misdeeds of stone-hearted Scott Walker, Wisconsin's GOP chief executive, or that ax-wielding alumnus of the Gingrich Congress, Gov. John Kasich, Ohio Republican.
So much more than a pitcher, Indians Hall of Famer Bob Feller was remembered as a civic treasure on the eve of opening day.
