LEXINGTON, Ky. -- One of the candidates for the presidency at the University of Kentucky has been identified in a published report as a former Ohio chancellor and . The Lexington Herald-Leader cited former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland in reporting that Eric D. Fingerhut is a candidate for the position.
Maybe you forgot all about Mequon-based Doral Dental and its controversial ties to a once-powerful Tennessee politician who has a bribery indictment hanging over his head. Yeah, maybe you forgot about it, but the feds sure haven't.
Unlike almost all early Supreme Court Justices, John McLean came from extraordinarily humble origins. He was born in New Jersey in 1785. Like many children of the frontier, the future Justice had no formal education for most of his boyhood. His thirty-two years on the Supreme Court make him one of the twelve longest serving Justices in history. McLean's importance comes from three aspects of his career: 1. his unusual political aspirations and activities while serving on the bench; 2. his support for a national commerce power and a flexible approach to economic development that contrasted with the states' rights anti-nationalism of Roger Taney and a majority of the antebellum Court; and 3. his moderate antislavery jurisprudence, which he combined with a defense of northern interests on ...
In the efforts to illuminate our nation's beginnings either via epic cable series or expertly written biographies - it seems James Madison, proverbial "Father of the Constitution," often gets pushed to the sidelines. Rarely is he given the attention of the other Founding Fathers: He lacked the vivacity of John Adams and failed to earn the reverence George Washington did. But as Richard Brookhiser's new biography demonstrates, he contributed as much to America's origins as his well-known peers, in similar and different ways. In this short book, Mr. Brookhiser, a senior editor at National Review and author of multiple works on the founders and the nation's first tumultuous century, capably wastes no time describing the details of Madison's political career.
I didn't wish to be the girl who had a problem with a politician for the rest of my life. So said Tristane Banon, in explaining why she didn't file charges nine years ago against Socialist politician and current International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. It was her mother, Anne Mansouret, also a Socialist politician, who advised her against it. As Mansouret recounted the conversation, she told her daughter: "Listen, you know, if he had raped you, I wouldn't have any hesitation, but that wasn't the case. He sexually assaulted you; there wasn't any rape per se. So until the end of your life, you're going to have on your resume, you know, Tristane Banon is the girl who "
By Amanda Pinto Register Staff apinto@nhregister.com WEST HAVEN -- A city politician said his family's van was mistakenly "booted" last week, and he wants to be compensated for the $175 removal fee he paid, as well as for the hours he took off from work after the vehicle was immobilized.
[...] the United States was in the midst of its involvement in Nicaragua and El Salvador, and Barker decided to invite speakers to talk about US foreign policy, encouraging her colleagues and friends to attend. The AAAS also offers year-long public policy internships in congress, at the state department, the National Science Foundation, and the Environmental Protection Agency, to name a few. Almost finished with his AAAS science policy fellowship, Engel says he is now thinking about running for local office in 2010, in Baltimore County, Md., one of his goals being to keep the biotech industry from leaving his state.
Joseph A. Lazzara, a bakery executive who was a force in Passaic County politics and sought the Paterson mayoralty, has died. He was 87. The Wayne and Delray Beach, Fla., resident died in Florida on April 10, 2 1/2 weeks after breaking his hip, said his wife, Constance.
Having just run the gantlet of another election cycle, our skin has thickened to the loathsome lies and pandering of craven candidates for various offices. The old joke pretty much says it all: "How can you tell when a politician is lying? His lips are moving. But even within the dismally low moral standards of political rhetoric, there are lines few are willing to cross. But during a campaign that featured doozies like "Housekeepergate" and "Whoregate," L.A.'s own Antonio Villaraigosa managed to boldly go where no other Los Angeles politico was willing to go - he actually endorsed the San Francisco Giants. The GIANTS!
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