The New Republic Mark Schmitt June 2, 2011 In a normal world, Republicans would look at Mitt Romney, who is announcing his second run for their party’s presidential nomination today, as a sterling example of one of their party’s greatest success stories since the Reagan era. Unfortunately, it’s that very success that his party seems to have willfully forgotten—and the thing that’s most likely to doom Romney’s candidacy. [...]

By Pamela Tsai Epoch Times Staff May 24, 2011 PHILADELPHIA— Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Colin Powell presented an award to Mr. Jeffrey Koo last week. It was the first time a person from Taiwan had won the Eisenhower Fellowships Distinguished Alumni Award. [...]

By John Celock Westfield Patch May 20, 2011 Governor makes nominations to number of state boards. [...]

Courier Post May 18, 2011 Ex-governor keynotes leadership summit. UNION (HUNTERDON) — New Jersey’s first woman governor told a conference of county businesswomen that to get more women in leadership positions, they needed to get more involved in their world. [...]

By Barbara S. Rothschild Courier Post May 17, 2011 Somerdale native Sophia Nelson is not the same woman she was when she ran for Camden County freeholder at age 28 and won the GOP primary to run against Democrat incumbent Rob Andrews in the 1st Congressional District when she was 29. [...]

By Mark J. Magyar Star Ledger May 17, 2011 Chris Christie is never mentioned in the New Jersey Network documentary, “The Power of the Governor.” But anyone who wants to understand how a governor whose party does not control either house of the Legislature can force his will should watch this well-crafted — and timely — documentary. [...]

By Adam C. Smith St. Petersburg Times (FL) April 23, 2011 In these tough economic times, it's no surprise political leaders spend a lot less time talking about combating global warming than about the need to create jobs. But former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christine Todd Whitman says people should realize the implications of doing nothing. [...]

By Associated Press March 31, 2011 WASHINGTON — Two lawmakers are working to revive legislation in Congress to create a National Women’s History Museum in Washington after an earlier effort expired in the Senate. [...]

By Associated Press, Wednesday, March 30 WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s bid to regulate greenhouse gases, after losing last year’s congressional debate over global warming, is making the Environmental Protection Agency the focus of Republican attacks on federal oversight. [...]

By John Collins Rudolf New York Times Green Blog March 28, 2011 The Republican assault on the Environmental Protection Agency, including a proposed bill to repeal the agency’s recent finding that carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases pose a threat to human health and welfare, goes too far, write two former E.P.A. chiefs, both appointed by Republican presidents. “Amid the virulent attacks on the E.P.A. driven by concern about overregulation, it is easy to forget how far we have come in the past 40 years,” William D. Ruckelshaus and Christine Todd Whitman write. “We should take heart from all this progress and not, as some in Congress have suggested, seek to tear down the agency that the president and Congress created to protect America’s health and environment.” [The Washington Post] [...]