Befitting the state’s quirky image, Alaska lent its voice to Super Tuesday well after the other 10 states had called it a night — and not long before Wednesday’s dawn approached on America’s East Coast.
As circumstance would have it, I’m attending a conference in Washington, D.C. – not too far from where the National Governors Association just concluded its annual winter meeting.
Hoover Institution fellow Carson Bruno discusses the primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire, and then the discussion delves into new laws, candidates, and political events at the local and state level.
In the official Republican response to the State of the Union last night, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley took a veiled jab at her party's frontrunner for the presidential nominee by calling for inclusion and mutual respect over anger and divisiveness.
Yes, that was Mayor Ed Lee and newly re-elected Supervisor Aaron Peskin laughing and having coffee together the other day at the window table of Mario’s Bohemian Cigar Store Cafe in North Beach.
With the rather large exception of the White House, these are dark days for the Democratic Party. The 2014 election left the party with 188 seats in the House of Representatives, its lowest count since the Truman administration.