See Also Ben Barnes has a Washington player’s résumé. He’s a Democratic lobbyist, he’s made a fortune in real estate, and he’s a former lieutenant governor of Texas and speaker of the state’s House. But there’s another side to him: history buff, art collector, preservationist. These are embodied in his building on 19th Street in downtown DC, where he has set...

Well, if you don’t know who this upstanding citizen is, let me introduce you.  this is 33-year old Desmond Hatchett, who has the distinction in the state of Tennesseeof fathering 30 children with eleven different women. In my day, there was an expression that it was easy to...

Jammu, May 24: call it official apathy or undermining the significance of the right to Information Act, the Civil Secretariat Srinagar is virtually out of bounds for people due to non-availability of official telephone numbers in public domain. The official website of the General Administration Department (GAD) of the state government jkgad.nic.in, in its Telephone Directory portal, has the phone numbers of Jammu Civil Secretariat only, that too of the year 2010-11....

Something a bit out-of-the-ordinary happened after Governor Chafee made three nominations last week to the board that runs Rhode Island’s embattled Economic Development Corporation. One of the appointees has long been a lightning rod for controversy: Dr. Pablo Rodriguez, former medical director of Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island and outspoken abortion-rights advocate, who told a state Senate committee years back the Warwick Country Club...

By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTIAssociated Press HOUSTON (AP) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency suggested Thursday it would approve parts of Texas' clean air plan, a move that could help ease some of the strains between the state and the federal agency. The EPA said in a statement that it supported revisions submitted by the Texas...