Posted in Politics on Feb 27th, 2010
– White House social secretary Desiree Rogers is stepping down three months after an uninvited couple crashed the Obama administration’s first state dinner and she was heavily criticized for her role in allowing the embarrassing episode to happen.
Posted in Politics on Feb 26th, 2010
Democratic Gov. David Paterson, bedeviled by a domestic-violence scandal involving a top aide and lacking support in his own party, has found himself severely weakened as he tries to save the state from insolvency and run for a full term in the fall.
Mr. Carter and NY Governor Paterson are under scrutiny from the Feds. The governor’s friendship with Jay is raising questions because of Jay’s involvement with AEG, the organization selected to run a multibillion-dollar racino at Aqueduct Racetrack
Posted in Politics on Feb 20th, 2010
Alexander Haig, the former military officer, secretary of state and adviser to presidents, has died, a Johns Hopkins Medical Center spokesman said.
Haig, 85, was admitted to the Baltimore, Maryland, hospital on January 28 and died at 1:30 a.m. Saturday, hospital spokesman Gary Stephenson said.
Bernard C. “Jack” Young, a veteran East Baltimore councilman, was elected president of the City Council by a unanimous vote Monday evening.
Posted in Politics on Feb 7th, 2010
Frustrated by term-limited Mayor Ray Nagin’s leadership of New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina, voters elected Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu to succeed him Saturday, turning to a political scion to speed up the city’s recovery.
Posted in Politics on Jan 27th, 2010
Former 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards, who admitted last week that he fathered a child with a videographer who worked on his campaign, has legally separated from his wife, Elizabeth, a source close to her said Wednesday.
Posted in Politics on Jan 21st, 2010
Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has finally come forward to admit that he fathered a child with a videographer he hired before his second White House bid. “It was wrong for me to ever deny she was my daughter,” he said Thursday.
Posted in Politics on Jan 21st, 2010
– Osama bin Laden’s son Omar believes the al Qaeda leader has achieved his aim of humbling the United States but warns his death could unleash “very, very nasty” attacks by militants, Rolling Stone magazine said.
Posted in Politics, Sports News on Jan 13th, 2010
La La just announced that she will be getting married this summer to long time fiancee Carmelo Anthony in NYC.They were initially engaged Christmas 2004.
She has hired celebrity wedding planner
Mindy Weiss, known for her very elegant and glamerous weddings for Heidi Klum, Eva Longoria and Gwen Stefani.
Good Luck You two.
Posted in Politics on Jan 8th, 2010
Now that City Council President Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake will become mayor in February, the job she is leaving is up for grabs and council members wasted little time expressing their interest in the office.
Posted in Politics on Jan 7th, 2010
Mayor Sheila Dixon’s plea deal - crafted in legal terms such as Probation Before Judgment and Alford plea - left many questions about her criminal record and her future. Here’s a primer on the arrangement and the events it will trigger:
Posted in Politics on Jan 6th, 2010
Mayor Sheila Dixon agreed to resign Wednesday as part of a deal with prosecutors, ending a three-year tenure that began with promise but unraveled amid embarrassing allegations that she stole from the poor.
Posted in Politics on Dec 13th, 2009
Annise Parker made history Saturday as Houston’s first openly gay mayor.
Parker, who served five years as city controller, beat former city attorney Gene Locke with 53.6 percent of the vote in a runoff election.
