Archive for May, 2009

BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets advanced Monday as an expansion in Chinese manufacturing added to hopes the global economy is slowly clawing its way out of recession.

Commodity stocks led the region’s gains as oil neared $68 a barrel and two…

I think Rick Abbruzzese, spokesman for Gov. Martin O’Malley, was kidding when he suggested I apply for the job of Maryland secretary of transportation. After all, the job calls for a master’s degree and experience in public administration, things I don’…

WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor has a classic American story. So does Frank Ricci.

Ricci is a New Haven firefighter stationed seven blocks from where Sotomayor went to law school (Yale). Raised in blue-collar Wallingford, Conn., Ricci struggled as a C…

With the election of Barack Obama, environmentalists expected to see the end of the “Appalachian apocalypse” — their name for exposing coal deposits by blowing the tops off of whole mountains.

But in recent weeks, the Obama administration has quietly…

First came the breaking-news e-mail alert: President Barack Obama would appoint Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Within minutes, a dozen other e-mails tumbled through the hatch enumerating all the reasons why Sotomayor was a terrible pick:…