May 01 Dispatch from Louisiana: Fishermen Voice Their Frustrations on Oil Spill Correspondent Tom Bearden is reporting from Louisiana on the impact of the Gulf Coast oil spill and filed this dispatch for the Rundown on Saturday. The weather isn't cooperating. For several days after BP's leased oil rig… Continue reading
Apr 30 Senate Primary Heats Up in Arkansas By Spencer Michels _pap_embed_custom('news01s3f05qe7c',482,304,""); One of the things U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln told me that irks her the most about Washington is the fact that she can't get a direct, non-stop flight from the capital to Little Rock. She's the senator from… Continue reading
Apr 30 Witness to the End, Photographer Reflects on Vietnam By Mike Fritz Thirty-five years ago, White House photographer David Hume Kennerly knew he was on the verge of capturing a historic moment. President Gerald Ford had convened an emergency meeting of the National Security Council in the Roosevelt Room and was poised… Continue reading
Apr 30 Louisiana Dispatch: Bracing for the Spill Correspondent Tom Bearden is reporting from Louisiana on the impact of the Gulf oil spill and filed this dispatch for the Rundown. Why does it always seem to happen to Louisiana? We're in Venice, a town of about… Continue reading
Apr 30 Gwen's Take: 'Washington Rhetoric: The Decoder' By Gwen Ifill Emotion. Fear. Guilt. Racism. These drivers, according to former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson, are the four horsemen of a rhetorical apocalypse that stops things from getting done in Washington. "Those are the four things I find in my time… Continue reading
Apr 30 Summit Aims to Broaden U.S. Ties With Muslim Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurship summit attendees. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of State It was an unprecedented gathering of Muslim entrepreneurs in an unlikely place: America's capital. More than 200 men and women, handpicked from 50 countries, return home Friday after… Continue reading
Apr 30 Watch In Arkansas, Incumbent Lincoln 'Catching It From All Sides' Incumbent Blanche Lincoln is campaigning to hold on to her seat in the U.S. Senate in a heated Democratic primary race in Arkansas. Spencer Michels reports on how the state's agriculture industry and discontent with Washington may factor into the… Continue watching
Apr 30 Watch Shields and Brooks Assess Oil Spill's Political Fallout, Primary Races Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks sort through the top political stories of the week, including the White House's decision to suspend plans for offshore drilling expansion in the wake of the Gulf disaster and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's announcement… Continue watching
Apr 29 Crist's Independent Bid Opens New Political Frontier in Florida By Quinn Bowman Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is expected to announce Thursday afternoon that he will run as an independent in the race to fill an open Senate seat. How would Sunshine State voters react to a three-way race? We ask two political… Continue reading