Huffington Post - By Rob Fishman - Mar. 04 (Opinion) - If the media has been quick to villainize the fallen kings of Wall Street — New York magazine crowned Dick Fuld the "true villain," only to be replaced by "new villain," John Thain — reporters have just as swiftly glorified the middle-tier p...

Racine mayoral candidate Jody Harding wrote last year, complaining that people who do not pay taxes should not have the right to vote Henny Penny and the Right to Vote The large (and growing) segment of our society that is living off government handouts is voting to decide how that government is run...

Today, we examine the campaign funds of some of Maryland’s leading state and local politicians as well as those of a few potential challengers. All data pertains to the year ending 1/14/09. Strongest Position 1. Attorney General Doug Gansler (Balance $1,255,115.52, Net Gain $609,184.48)No statewid...

Today, we examine the campaign funds of Montgomery’s county-level office holders. All data pertains to the year ending 1/14/09. Strongest Position 1. George Leventhal, At-Large (Balance $59,677.53, Net Gain $366.03)Leventhal is the strongest of the at-large members. He has a broad base that reache...

Once again, it’s time to look at the mother’s milk of politics: cold, hard cash. Today, we examine the campaign funds of Montgomery’s statehouse delegation, as well as those of a few potential challengers. All data pertains to the year ending 1/14/09. We then weed through the data (with a litt...

Early Monday Morning News Roundup The stimulus package has passed the House and the Senate and awaits the president’s signature. If you think the fight over the stimulus package is over, you’re wrong. There’s plenty more fighting to do. As Obama and his administration begin to lo...

A local keeper of reality is attempting to signify again. UPDATE: Aunt B dishes some reality of her own to our resident Encyclopedia Jones: Just wondering, what’s the going ad rate at the Scene? I mean is $4,000 something you scoff at all the time or just when other people bring it in? Because I h...

The Tennessean suggests that registered lobbyist Joe Hall is leading the charge of the beer distributor lobbyists against the single serve ban that was deferred last night so that the Chamber of Commerce can have its way with it. Joe Hall was one of the lobbyists who did CM Jerry Maynard a solid by ...

It's one of the biggest "Take Out The Trash Day" stories we've ever run across. On Friday, the Church of Latter-Day Saints finally fessed up that its financial involvement in Prop. 8 was significantly larger than it previously maintained. The Mormon Church initially said that it ...

A lawsuit filed by Fred Karger of Californians Against Hate has forced the Mormon Church to disclose almost $200K in money it spent in support of Proposition 8, almost 100 times more than they previously claimed. Mormon church officials, facing an ongoing investigation by the state Fair Political Pr...