The last three weeks have been spent on the campaign trail. Bob and I did stories on DeLay’s seat in Sugar Land — which by the way looks remarkably similar to Reston, VA, a little to well planned out — the Texas governor’s race, the Pennsylvania Senate race, the Ohio DeWine Senate race and the
On a Friday afternoon around 330p I get up from a long nap after early morning liveshots at Dulles airport after Scotland Yard made several arrests regarding a plot to blow up airplanes. I check my blackberry and there’s actually several emails that I need to respond to as opposed to the dozens of emails
I didn’t really take the summer off at all but it sure seems like it since my last posting was in May. Oops. A lot has happened since May. We didn’t travel much at the beginning of the summer. One trip in July to Charlotte for the case of the marine who raped a girl
Southwestern Kentucky — Appalachia — is incredibly beautiful country. Green, lush mountains inhabited by lovely, god-fearing, hardworking people who basically have no choice at all but to work in the mines. On Saturday May 20th another five miners were killed in a blast at Kentucky Darby Mine No. 1 in Holmes Mill, KY. Later that
Ok, so the title is a little over-dramatic but it fits especially if you’ve read his columns lately in the Washington Post. He’s dying. His kidneys are failing him and he’s refusing dialysis, he doesn’t want to go through the painful process. Bob Franken and I interviewed him the other day about that on the