The filing period ends for this year’s local races, and the Russia saga continues.

Like an unexpectedly fine sundae, the Russia thing gets thicker and nuttier by the minute.

Separating news that matters from news that doesn’t. Also, where bipartisanship is still alive and well?

Comey, Russia, and the like, but also health care.

The president’s foreign trip; the Montana special election.

How do you even begin to analyze all this?

What’s really important, and what’s just noise, in the midst of the Trump/Russia/FBI scandal.

What’s the future of health care after the House passes AHCA?

The keys to better political discourse are also the keys to better living in general.

Bill O’Reilly gets fired – what does that tell us about the importance of money in politics? Also, Jean reads a poem.