Our latest online survey of Press Democrat letter writers and other readers shows surprisingly strong support for many of the major ideas the president expressed in his State of the Union address on Wednesday – even the development of new “safe, clean nuclear power plants.” The president’s discussion about “opening new offshore [...]
Were the major news organizations caught napping on the Senate special election in Massachusetts today? We're wondering. Polls closed back East at 5 p.m. Pacific time, and we turned on our TV to find that none of the major networks or other news organizations were doing any exit polling. As Wolf Blitzer on CNN [...]
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger stayed upbeat, as usual, but the Terminator lurked between the lines of his State of the State address Wednesday morning. Foremost among his targets was the California Correctional Peace Officers Association. The union representing state prison guards is a force in state politics, pumping millions into the [...]
Paul Gullixson
Jim Sweeney
This blog is written by Press Democrat editorial writers Paul Gullixson and Jim Sweeney.