Mark Sanford

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford — apparently deeming his earlier explanations and apologies  inadequate — has reached out to constituents once again with a guest column that appeared Sunday in The State and other newspapers in the state. Here’s…

The State

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted to having an affair hours after Gina Smith, a reporter for The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C., contronted him at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.

But The State reports that it first heard of the possible affair…

Politicians from states with rich histories of corruption tend to either be very corrupt themselves or just the opposite, an article on Newsweek.com argues.

Michael Hirsh, Newsweek.com’s Washington Web Editor, speculates on Barack Obama’s legacy — in the wake of the Blagojevich…

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch had a seven-word refer on this morning’s front page — “For Obama, a distraction, but no danger” — to a story by Washington Bureau Chief Bill Lambrecht that ran at the bottom of Page A4 under that…

Political scandals tend to garner more news coverage and get bigger display when they are close to home. This morning’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch devoted almost the entire front page to coverage of the accusations against Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich.…