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<p>Ann Lewis, a senior Clinton adviser, just told reporters on a conference call that the campaign took in $3 million over the internet in the 24 hours

Three members of he Anoka-Hennepin School Board are up for reelection in 2011, and challengers have filed to run in two of those seats.

As Spencer just noted, it’s yet another day of strange and tumultuous proceedings, the five detainees charged with planning the 9/11 attacks withdrew their

History just has a way of kicking Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) in the teeth. There the 2004 Democratic nominee was, in Kabul, two weeks ago, securing President

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) praised a proposal by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus that would dedicate a portion of fines imposed on BP from the oil spill to Gulf

Now it’s the life insurance industry’s turn for a bailout, The Wall Street Journal reports today. The Treasury Department has approved allowing life insurance

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday signaled that he may be willing to push back a vote on a climate bill until 2010. So, you know, we are

Friday, The Colorado Independent wrote about Al Gore’s Aspen speech , but we had technical difficulties in posting the audio. Those difficulties have been overcome, and you can listen here. Al Gore calls B.S

Editor Cooper Levey-Baker (Pic by Cliff Roles ) Impact. It’s a word we at The Florida Independent throw around daily behind the scenes, but it’s not an idea we talk about much in public. Sure, it’s featured prominently in our statement of purpose ( to produce “news that impacts public debate and advances the common good” ), but in the daily What Have You Published in the Last 10 Minutes?

Well, it appears I was wrong. Several media outlets reported late Wednesday that unnamed Democratic officials said President-elect Barack Obama will likely tap

The president-elect has raised the expectations for all of us, patriotic expectations, moral expectations, expectations of what it means to be a citizen. But as Obama raises expectations, he must also lower them. There are going to be sacrifices involved. That’s the trick.

OK, with the caveat that exit polling is voodoo and probably reflective of a Democratic bias, there’s something interesting in the guts of CNN’s exit poll from

Gov. Scott Walker; Source: Gateway Technical College, Flickr Starting Tuesday, Wisconsin Democrats and labor groups will start an effort to gather more than 550,000 signatures by mid-January on a petition to recall Gov

State Rep. Scott Plakon, R-Longwood (Pic by Meredith Geddings, via myfloridahouse.gov) With the beginning of session only days away, Florida legislators have been busy filing a slew of anti-abortion bills.

Following up on reports that the nonprofit group, Americans for Job Security, has been avoiding the donor disclosure requirements on its independent

The press conference at the Watergate Hotel opened with a question for the assembled reporters: How many of you have voted already? A majority of the sixty

CQ reports that there may be some changes afoot in the chairmanship of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: Depending on how the Senate’s

In a 5-4 decision delivered this week the U.S. Supreme Court found that California’s overcrowded prisons violate the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment

Lindsay Graham drives me crackers. Despite being a consistent and often brave enemy of torture, he can also cover up with the best of them. "We’re not

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