Archive for the 'Politics' Category

Bill Clinton Hospitalized

Former President Bill Clinton was hospitalized Thursday after experiencing heart discomfort and had two stents placed in a coronary artery, an adviser said.
The adviser, Douglas Band, said Clinton was in ‘good spirits’ after undergoing the procedure at New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Yvonne Zanos

Pittsburgh KDKA-TV reporter Yvonne Zanos passed away this morning from complications with ovarian cancer. She would have turned 60 years old on Wednesday. According to Post-Gazette.com, Zanos began working as a consumer reporter in 1987 and became well-known for the beat: She had a column named “Does It Really Do That?” in which she tested [...]

Harold Ford Jr

Harold Ford Jr. Interesting trial balloon from the New York Times: Former Tennessee Rep. and current Merrill Lynch banker Harold Ford Jr. is weighing a run for Senate against Hillary Clinton substitute Kirsten E. Gillibrand.
Harold Ford Jr. had been a rising star among Democrats in DC. But in 2006, a very Democratic year, he tried [...]

Richard Blumenthal

Richard Blumenthal. The country’s most tenured state attorney general has decided to run for U.S. Senate.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is expected to announce his candidacy for a Senate seat being vacated by fellow Democrat Chris Dodd on Wednesday, according to a Reuters report.