Bob Collins
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Tag: Politics
Political lightning round
The news today that Jody Powell died has sent us scurrying for the News Cut Wayback Machine. It’s 1977. And Time Magazine hates the new administration in town, and the new press secretary, a Mr. Jody Powell: Jody Powell, the other principal staff strategist in the Lance affair, turned out to have some of the Read more →
Checking the speech
If you listened to Midday via the radio on Friday, the whole “Al draws the USA thing” might not have been that impressive. So … here.
Can a Republican jump from the starting rotation of the Boston Red Sox to the United States Senate?
Should there be a national discussion on whether anyone — public or private — should pay for treatments that have marginal value?
Opponents of President Obama’s health care plan are never going to vote for Frank, which gives him the luxury of telling them off.
Picket-line politics
Both Minneapolis and St. Paul mayors have released their budget updates. Both call for increases in property taxes and reductions in some services.