Showdown looms in Missouri over right to work

September 13, 2015 · Politics, Labor, Jay Nixon

Missouri could become the 26th state to adopt a right-to-work law next week, marking the first time in history that the law has been on the books in a majority of U.S. states.

PolitiFact rewrites its own history in Obamacare 'Lie Of The Year' decision

December 12, 2013 · Politifact, Analysis, President

In an impressive display of chutzpah, the Tampa Bay Times' fact-checking organization PolitiFact has designated President Obama's promise that "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it" as their "Lie of the Year" for 2013 while simultaneously distancing itself from its own years-long…

How D.C.'s effort to raise the minimum wage helps Walmart

December 3, 2013 · Minimum Wage, Vincent Gray, Columnists

The D.C. Council began the year by trying to pass a minimum wage hike intended to bring to Walmart to heel. It is ending the year by pushing a minimum wage increase that would likely benefit Walmart. Such are the tangled politics and economics of the minimum wage issue.

Politifact's pants are on fire on coverage of Obamacare promises

November 4, 2013 · Politifact, Analysis, President

Now that President Obama’s oft-repeated claim that Obamacare lets people keep their current health insurance has been exposed as false, it’s a good time to examine Politifact’s track record on the matter. It isn’t good.

Axing in Air

July 11, 2011 · Blog

The rocker was midway through a virtuoso guitar solo on the stage of the 9:30 Club in downtown DC when he tried a back-flip. Instead of landing on his feet he landed on his head, smacking it against the stage so hard the vibrations could be felt in the front rows.