A Personal Tale of Two Palmetto State Primaries

This is my second GOP primary season the Palmetto State, and the first one in which I plan to cast a vote.  What amazes me is how much I have changed in the dozen years since my first foray into covering national politics. In early February 2000, I was working as a news reporter for [...]

Daily Reminder: January 14, 2012

On this day in 2010, faced with continued opposition to health care reform by usually friendly labor unions concerned about the taxation of so-called “Cadillac” health plans, Democratic Party leadership in the U.S. Senate cut one of what was to be many deals – by ensuring union leaders that the excise tax would not kick [...]