Local Elections

It was a classic neighborhood battle that threatened to kick off a border war between the capital city and its suburban neighbor to the west. At the heart of the dispute was the Pond House Café and Banquet Center, an upscale eatery nestled against the...

Barack Obama's recent surge in the presidential race has been credited to a rise in voters' concerns about their money. It helps that Obama himself has a lot of money. Spurning federal funds -- and the spending restrictions that go with them -- the...

President Bush's response to the nation's financial crisis is helping Barack Obama's presidential campaign, former President Bill Clinton said. "The administration keeps plowing an Uzi's worth of bullets into the McCain-Palin ticket every time they have...

American soldiers can hump 60-pound packs through the broiling desert, kill for their country and die for it, but they can't always vote for their commander in chief. A solution has long been proposed: Just get rid of the Byzantine process that forces...

Tony Moreno is talking about the weak economy and about jobs lost to outsourcing. He's trying to sell a Barack Obama presidency -- one union member to another. But Moreno is in Los Angeles and the union member he's talking to is in Pennsylvania. Moreno,...

The state association for Indiana's 1008 township trustees is asking them to pass along more of their tax dollars to battle efforts in the General Assembly next year to eliminate township government, a report Saturday said. The Indiana Township...

Six months ago, this town of 5,500 took a stand against the most powerful lawman in the state. As Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's deputies swept through town during a controversial operation searching for illegal immigrants, Mayor Rebecca Jimenez...

What's good for some in Palm Beach County may not be good for all. That's the sentiment behind a proposed County Charter amendment on the Nov. 4 ballot that would let municipalities opt out of countywide rules that govern everything from the size of...

We don't yet know who tried to perpetrate a fraud on the people of Illinois by rigging the Nov. 4 vote on a constitutional convention. We do, though, know who can rescue this referendum question from whichever political insiders are guilty of this deceit:...

Jorge Luis Perez Tortosa had never seen a pancake, and so he approached it with caution. Squeezing out a single drop of maple syrup, he used his knife to carefully spread it across one bite-sized piece, which he removed with surgical precision and...

ACORN, the anti-poverty group under investigation for voter fraud in several states, has organized voter registration drives on Long Island this year but no allegations of misconduct have been made, officials said yesterday. Cathy L. Richter Geier, the...

1000 Friends of Connecticut was founded in 2005 to make responsible development one of the most important issues in state political campaigns. The group, however, had a tepid beginning, holding just four candidate forums featuring "smart growth" as...