Washington Post

John Edwards admission that he lied and dismissed reports of an affair with Rielle Hunter, a filmmaker hired to cover his presidential campaign, may have ended his public life, but did it also signify an end to the era in which the mainstream media controlled the agenda for national political journalism?

The Washington Post editorial board addresses the long-simmering scandal around state Senate Budget and Taxation Committee Chairman Ulysses Currie (D-District Heights) over his secret ties to a company with business before the state.

The run through the "deeply troubling" revelations and sum up the feeling among Annapolis Democrats -- the one Mike Miller was trying to convey last week.