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Officials in the Martinez administration say they are considering cutting taxes on small business gross receipts and corporate income as a means of creating jobs in the state. The tax on gross receipts averages at about 7 percent throughout the state. One proposal being considered would eliminate gross receipt taxes for business with a tax liability under $200 a month, which could benefit about 40,000 businesses in the state

The White House program designed to prevent foreclosures by paying banks to alter loans voluntarily isn’t doing nearly enough to keep struggling borrowers in their homes, several powerful Democrats charged Wednesday.

Researchers at the progressive group One Wisconsin Now found that, on August 17, the day after the last of the recall elections in the state forced by Democrats aghast at Walker’s politics, Koch Industries bought up at least three anti-Koch domains: StopKoch.com, StopKochIndustries.com, and AntiKoch.com.

Last year, the Democratic Congress enthusiastically acquiesced to President George W. Bush’s insistence on carving out individualized suspicion and other

Just out from U.S. Central Command about the three soldiers who died yesterday in a Pakistan bombing. According to the statement -- reprinted in full after the

Personhood USA co-founder Keith Mason (Pic via personhoodusa.com) Nearly 60 percent of Mississippi voters yesterday defeated the state’s controversial “fetal personhood” amendment, an initiative that would have defined life as beginning at the moment of conception. Though support for Amendment 26 was much stronger than in other states with similar personhood bills, concerns over the potential consequences of the bill trumped support in the end

Sen. Carte Goodwin (D-W.Va.) was sworn in about half an hour ago by Vice President Biden. At 36, he is the youngest member of Senate. The late Sen. Robert Byrd

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A television ad from Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, running statewide on radio and the FOX News Channel, erroneously claims the Environmental Protection Agency wants to regulate methane from cattle and dust from farming activities. The ad features a number of farmers, one of which says the EPA wants to regulate methane coming from cattle. “For thousands of years, 60 million buffalo roamed these prairies in Iowa,” one farmer says.

Not by me, but by Hilzoy, who refutes practically every claim about the Uighur detainees at Guantanamo Bay that Newt Gingrich wrote about the other day.

Medicare Advantage is at the forefront of congressional bickering. Again. Indeed, a large chunk of yesterday’s health reform debate in the Senate Finance

Kenneth Tomlinson at Human Events, which ran the Evans-Novak Report until it was ended last year, confirms that the conservative reporter Robert Novak has died

In Denver last week to plug his memoir and rally occupiers, filmmaker Michael Moore made one thing perfectly clear: He has not let becoming a one-percenter change his worldview. Not even a little. In a nearly 90-minute speech at CU Denver , Moore by turns excoriated the country for turning its back on its young and let those same young people know that their turn to run the country is at hand.

State Sen. Judith Zaffirini (D-Austin) opened herself up to charges of elitism by right-wing conservatives when she referred to her own doctorate degree as

Following up on Jesse’s new piece on why anti-GOP backlash hasn’t appeared among Latino voters, a poll released today gives additional insight into how how

As Congress and the White House joust over the proposed expansion of offshore drilling for oil and gas, the debate has hinged on 68 million acres where the

Back on March 31, a new neoconservative think tank called the Foreign Policy Initiative launched with a conference on the subject of Afghanistan: Planning for

While the Obama administration deals with massive protests, including thousands of people surrounding the White House earlier this week, the State Department is apparently considering the possibility of rerouting the pipeline around the most environmentally sensitive areas. Reuters reports : The State Department is considering rerouting TransCanada Corp.’s proposed $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline to avoid ecologically sensitive areas of Nebraska, a U.S

A bill sponsored by Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, to authorize new energy-sector sanctions on Iran

Sen. Ted Kaufman (D-Del.) never liked the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill. Though it was strengthened through the legislative process, he still felt

When I was reporting Monday’s story on the lack of Republican worry about a Kennedy effect on health care, I asked CNN for the breakdowns on what ended up

New Mexico has added 100 government jobs since 2007, making it one of 22 states to have added rather than lost government jobs since the start of the economic crisis in 2007. The New Mexico Business Weekly reports on an On Numbers study of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data showing that while “New Mexico is one of the states that has added jobs… it is tied for the least amount of government job growth with Kentucky” since the start of the recession

Maryland House Del. Emmett C. Burns (D-Baltimore County) is moving forward with a strategy to defeat same-sex-marriage legislation that involves partnering with

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