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At 8pm on Saturday night, young people in Traverse City were gathered downtown and jubilantly shouting “Down with Corporate America!” and “The World is Waking Up!” “I feel like our rights are being taken away and this is kind of helping,” said Sawyer Hentschell, 18, as he stood with his friends across from Chase Bank downtown. “The bank bailout has put everyone deeper in debt.” Hentschell said that he was inspired to protest by his older sister, and this was his first demonstration. What outcome is he hoping for

The renewable energy standard introduced by Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Sam Brownback (R-Kans.) this week now has 25 co-sponsors. In fact, Sen. Chuck

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar made no announcements today about the Obama administration’s deepwater drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico, despite

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on July 30, 2009. Because servicers in the lending

The Daily Beast has a good story today on Encarnación Romero, a Guatemalan woman who was jailed on immigration charges for two years and ended up losing

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Mr. M, a former Army National Guard medic at Bagram from August 2002 to spring 2003, testified that he never saw any fresh wounds on Omar

The appearance of a man who claims to be a reformed terrorist at a rally against illegal immigration at the Capitol building in Lansing is raising questions both about the accuracy of his story and the propriety of his invitation to speak.

The conservative congressman from Iowa goes a little off-message, via my colleague Jason Hancock at The Iowa Independent. King’s response to the Reid flap, on

Trip Jennings reports that Sen. John Arthur Smith, D-Deming, drafted a compromise bill on the state’s unemployment compensation fund, raising taxes on businesses by a lesser amount than Gov

In Georgia, money generated by the sale of that state’s “Choose Life” license plates goes directly to crisis pregnancy centers that counsel women not to have abortions, and a bill now pending in the Florida legislature could open the door for Floridians’ money to flow to similar centers here. # Sponsored by state Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, Senate Bill 196 aims to redirect the funds made off the brightly colored plates from Florida counties directly into the hands of the Ocala-based organization Choose Life, Inc.

Dr. Steven Miles, a professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School and faculty member of its Center for Bioethics, for years tried to track the deaths

Recently, political memes have surfaced that do not have much basis in reality. Matt Bai of the New York Times sees murmurs of a primary challenge against

Under a new ruling, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) will allow traditional political action committees to merge with super PACs, effectively allowing

The Washington Post today reports that, having suffered a series of legislative losses over the last year, environmentalists are working to gain back their

An editorial in the Los Angeles Times implored state education officials to re-instate an erasure analysis of standardized public school tests. The state

Environmentalists scrambled today to get control of the midterm narrative following a crushing defeat for Democrats in the House and Senate. At a press

Only five of the 10 Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee voted today against the nomination of Tim Geithner for Treasury secretary, but it’s worth noting

Yesterday evening, the House passed a stripped-down supplemental war funding bill, providing the administration with $59 billion for continuing operations in

Normally when I see the Wall Street Journal flash breaking news like, the Dow industrials fall more than 600 on fears bailout package vote will fail, I’d

State revenue will continue to grow in the coming years, members of the state’s Revenue Estimating Conference say, but not as fast as they would like. The three-member group tasked with determining how much money will come into the state lowered it’s March estimate for fiscal year 2012 based on legislative changes and set new growth levels for that fiscal year and the next on Friday.

Women and minorities are under-represented in the nearly 6,000 appointments Texas Gov. Rick Perry has made in his decade in office, according to the Abilene

U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle this morning denied the government’s attempt to further delay the hearing of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed Jawad and, as