arlen specter

    By Mark Cohen

    | 3:00PM 11/14/2009
    In my last installment, I entertained the notion of opening a medical marijuana store in the New York City suburb my wife and I call home. This week, while we wait for the New Jersey legislature to finalize the legality of that option and as I begin year two in what is now semi-officially the...

    By Joseph Lazzaro

    | 5:30PM 4/28/2009
    One can easily imagine that conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh is on a flight to New Zealand right about now. Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter's defection Tuesday to the Democratic Party puts the Democrats one vote shy of a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, and if Sen. Norm Coleman(...

    By Jason Cochran

    | 3:30PM 9/11/2008
    Count on it each election season: Our elected representatives finally get off their duffs and start working on things that will actually affect our pocketbooks.Early this week, Sen. Herb Kohl, who chairs the Antitrust Subcommittee in the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to the big four...