Longtime Dallas congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson has awarded thousands of dollars in college scholarships to four relatives and a top aide’s two children since 2005, using foundation funds set aside for black lawmakers’ causes.

Back in April, I asked rhetorically why Florida Senate candidate Kendrick Meek had earned so little respect from analysts and pundits. I was thinking mostly of the one-on-one general election contest then looming between Democrat Meek and likely Republican nominee Marco Rubio.

WASHINGTON – A House panel announced Monday that Rep. Maxine Waters has been charged with violating ethics rules, setting the stage for a second election-season trial for a longtime Democratic lawmaker and adding to the party’s political woes. The charges against Waters, a 10-term California congresswoman, focus on whether she broke the rules in requesting […]

Audio Included in Post. Length 9 Minutes, 30 Seconds. Audio ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. In an Afternoons with Amos interview, Congressman Andre Carson revealed that he’s talked with Indianapolis Public Safety Director Dr. Frank Straub and IMPD Chief Paul Ciesielski about community concerns on police brutality. Cong. Carson revealed that Dr. Straub said the IMPD will […]

Teachers are already underpaid for the work that they put in and in the state of Indiana, it may seriously get worse! Nate Schnellenberger is the President of the Indiana State Teachers Association and he is saying that by 2011 about 6,000 teaching jobs will cease to exist if they do not accumulate the proper […]

Audio Included in Post. Audio ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Democratic Congressman Andre Carson of Indiana’s 7th Congressional District talked the big health care reform vote, the 2010 Census, jobs for ex-felons and more on Afternoons with Amos.

Audio Included in Post. Audio ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. In the first interviews of candidates in the May 4th Primary Elections, Carl Kakasuleff who is running for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the 7th District, talked issues and answered questions on Afternoons with Amos.