Politics
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De Blasio Family Still Undecided About Move to Gracie Mansion
Looks like New York Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio’s son, Dante, is putting up a good fight about where his family will live, nearly a month after his dad won the election. The New York Daily News reports that the de Blasio family has yet to decide whether or not to move from their Brooklyn digs…
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Ad Links President Obama and Crack-Smoking Toronto Mayor
New York Republican congressional candidate George Demos released a new ad on Monday comparing President Barack Obama and incumbent Democrat Rep. Tim Bishop to Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. “Tired of politicians?” the narrator says before the screen flashes with side-by-side images of the three men. The male voice-over then invites voters to “look at George…
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Cory Booker Avoids Spotlight in 1st Month as Senator
Cory Booker, the vivacious ex-Newark, N.J., mayor who drew national headlines for his boots-to-the-ground style of governing, has been relatively quiet in his first month as a senator, Politico reports. Booker, who once saved a woman from a burning building, has shied away from news conferences, TV appearances or saying anything that could garner too…
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White House Declares HealthCare.gov a Success
White House officials announced Sunday that they have met their goal to improve the Healthcare.gov website for most users, inspiring hope among Democrats that attention can now focus on successes of the embattled health care law, USA Today reports. “The bottom line is HealthCare.gov on Dec. 1 is night and day from where it was…
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President Obama Celebrates Small Business
President Barack Obama celebrated Small Business Saturday with his daughters, Malia and Sasha, by visiting a bookstore in Northwest Washington, D.C. The Huffington Post, citing pool reports, said that the president purchased several books at Politics & Prose, including Harold and the Purple Crayon, The Kite Runner and Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the…
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White House: HealthCare.gov on Track to Meet Deadline
White House officials plan to announce Sunday that improvements to HealthCare.gov were in place by Saturday’s deadline, the Washington Post reports. The upgrade was completed about 4 a.m. Saturday, the Post says, quoting a government official familiar with the project, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe details that the administration was not…
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Obama Handles Hecklers During Immigration Speech
Hecklers in San Francisco on Monday interrupted the president as he tried to deliver a speech that called for House Republicans to continue the push forward for immigration reform, the Huffington Post reports. During the speech at the Betty Ann Ong Chinese Recreation Center in the Chinatown neighborhood, a young man insisted the commander-in-chief put…
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Outgunned: Drug War Destabilizes Urban Families
Gun violence is an issue that disproportionately impacts some of this country’s most destitute communities—communities that are home to many broken families living in poor economic conditions, facing hopelessness and instability on a daily basis. A major contributor to this reality is the failed war on drugs, which has had an impact in two main…
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Obama’s Leadership Ratings Take a Dip
President Barack Obama’s poll numbers in various measures of leadership have taken a dip, showing the disgruntled state of the American people resulting form the troubles with Obamacare. Only 4 out of 10 Americans think the president can manage the government effectively, a new CNN/ORC International survey shows. This is a 7-percentage-point decrease from June.…
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Obama Working to Soothe Anxious Democrats
President Barack Obama has been busy in the past couple of weeks, flying across the country to attend fundraisers and reassure donors, even though he isn’t up for re-election. The president is hoping to relieve some of the stress caused by the political backlash from the problem-ridden rollout of Obamacare, which has many congressional Democrats…