From the moment federal prosecutors indicated last week that Jesse Jackson, Jr., was aware that one of his supporters, a prominent Illinois Democratic fundraiser, promised to raise $1 million for then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich in return for Jackson’s appointment to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Obama…

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Twenty-five years ago, near the end of his 12-year reign as mayor of Miami, Maurice Ferre compared himself to a surfer, a politician skilled enough to navigate a continually shifting wave…

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Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for governor of New York, called for a ban on drilling in the Marcellus Shale last week…

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