Author: David Mark

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save ALTURAS, California — Marin and Modoc are both California counties that start with “M,” but that’s about where their similarities end. Marin, on the Golden Gate Bridge’s northern side within sight of San Francisco‘s often…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Former Reps. Chris Collins and Jesse Jackson Jr. may disagree on many public policy matters, but if each wins back their old jobs in 2026, they can compare hard-earned experience on at least one topic…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save MIAMI — Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage and ex-Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan hardly stood out among Florida residents. The Republican pair had joined many former constituents who bolted those cold-winter states for the Sunshine…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It seems clear that House Democrats would need to net at least three seats in the 2026 midterm elections to win a majority in the chamber, which would provide a toehold of power during President…

An enduringly controversial play in Pete Rose’s long, Hall of Fame-caliber Major League Baseball career had a certain Donald Trump quality to it. It’s a baseball-political link between the president and Rose, who died Sept. 30, 2024, at age 83, that, in hindsight, seems obvious. It’s one that became clear as day when Trump, on…

In an early 1940s scene from The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power, the first book of Robert Caro’s four-volume (so far) biography about the late president, the then-House member vents frustration early at the chamber’s strict seniority system. The stodgy tradition, after all, allowed committee chairmen, usually southern Democratic (and segregationist) House…

NEW YORK — It’s an open question whether the biggest looming political headache for Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) is a strong Republican challenger or a Democratic primary rival.  Either way, the governor is in a New York state of (political) bind. Hochul, heading into her 2026 reelection bid, could face a Democratic primary rival who would…

ORANGE, California — Southern California voters in the eastern Orange County 40th Congressional District like President Donald Trump well enough, with one major policy exception. The district backed Trump in 2024, giving him 49.50% of the vote to 47.18% for his Democratic rival, then-Vice President Kamala Harris. At the same time, Rep. Young Kim (R-CA)…

LOS ANGELES — Devastating. Apocalyptic. Of biblical proportions. Now add a phrase to those apt descriptions of the January fires that ravaged Southern California: Political. It’s a realistic element of the fires, which killed at least 28 people and destroyed about 12,400 structures — the majority houses and plenty of businesses. Flames, which did the…

Let’s stipulate that all decent people, whatever their political views, wish good health and longevity to Reps. Dwight Evans (D-PA), Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), and David Scott (D-GA). More practically, Democrats need those three lawmakers and others who recently missed strings of votes due to health-related matters to be present and voting whenever the House is…