He’s watched control of state government go from Republican red to solid Democratic blue, Barack Obama’s rise to stardom and George Ryan’s fall from grace.

He’s covered presidential conventions in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Boston and New York, made coffee runs for D.C. editors as an intern and now helps guide reporting interns as the senior state government editor in the Daily He...

"This midnight rulemaking will tie the hands of the new administration, burden the financial services industry at a time of economic crisis and contradict the stated intent of the Financial Services Committee," the committee's Democratic chairman, Rep. Barney Frank, wrote this week to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

Frank asked Paulson to postpone the regulation, which was reviewed by ...