Time for Town Halls on Health Care

A group of local Democrats, acting on the premise that several key elected officials representing this area have been less than accessible to constituents wanting to express themselves on pending health-care legislation, have scheduled their own "town hall" meeting on the matter for this Saturday, July 8th, at the IBEW Meeting Hall on Madison.

George F. Will: a judicial slap to a careless Congress

By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- Another small step was taken last week on the steep and winding ascent back to constitutional norms. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the nation's second-most important court, did its judicial duty by reprimanding Congress for abandoning constitutional propriety.