Joe Scott 3: The Body Politic

Villaraigosa’s political moves

31 August 2009 |permalink | email article

Two months into his second term the unpopular mayor, with unquenchable ambition, has shaken up his top staff to refocus on key priorities that he’s largely ignored since taking charge in 2005.

Rev. Jeff Carr, a deputy… read full story

Kennedy era over?

30 August 2009 |permalink | email article

Speaking about Edward M. Kennedy’s passing Doris Kearns Goodwin, the presidential historian, aptly reprised Ernest Hemingway’s famous quote in A Farewell to Arms: “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that… read full story

Kennedy, finding his groove

28 August 2009 |permalink | email article

Adam Clymer, a former Washington correspondent for the New York Times and author of “Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography,” writes in an important book that it’s easier to acknowledge him as a great senator in the last decade or… read full story