Rep. Pete Stark today explained why he excluded a television camera from his town hall meeting Saturday in Hayward, but said it won’t happen again. As the Chronicle reported yesterday, a KTVU camera wasn’t allowed into the meeting, which had been adverti

He's even on schedule to publish a book this fall profiling successful manufacturers he met during his stint with Obama. Ro Khanna, center, talks with

Back when John Edwards was trying to get the presidential nod instead of Obama, some attention got focused on the way Edwards was able to avoid certain payroll taxes by having his compensation as a lawyer funneled through his professional service corpora

2010; at the time, the Joint Commission on Taxation estimated that closing this loophole would save taxpayers $11.2 billion over 10 years. Rep. Pete Stark gave Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich a political poke in the eye today by introduci

Point, Texas (pop. 792) is not the easiest place for a single lesbian to raise her child. But neither her sexuality nor her unwed parenthood are enough to make Renee Johnson an American conservative’s worst nightmare. As she explained to me when I met he

If Rep. Pete Stark is contemplating a bait-and-switch in which he’ll actually drop his bid for re-election to a 21st term at the last minute, he’s staging a pretty convincing ruse. “I am energized and excited for the campaign ahead. I am honored to serve