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Pic via WikiHow Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco yesterday announced that three permanent locations have been set up in the county for the drop-off of unused and expired prescription drugs. The move is just the latest push to thwart Florida’s prescription drug problem, which has reached near-epidemic proportions. Pinellas and Pasco counties led the state in prescription drug overdose deaths last year, with 207 and 142 deaths, respectively. Florida has been a main battleground for the prescription drug epidemic, but the state’s recently implemented prescription drug monitoring program (known as E-FORCSE) aims to change that

The first of several promised clashes over U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulatory powers came this week at a hearing over a Republican bill that would

During U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s speech at the annual convention of the American Legion in Minneapolis Thursday, she vowed to support and strengthen veterans medical care, but a plan unveiled by Bachmann in January, which she later dropped, proposed to cut $4.5 billion from these same veterans services

Scott Lee Cohen, who lost the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor in Illinois, has filed an independent bid for the top job. In the Texas

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Anoka-Hennepin School District, the largest in the state of Minnesota, has been at the center of a tug of war between the LGBT community, which says the district is not safe for students, and religious right parents, who want all mentions of LGBT issues stricken from school curricula and programming. At issue is a policy that restricts LGBT content in the schools, a policy the school district said on Monday it would not change.

A colleague points me to a telling paragraph from a New York Times story on the city’s for-profit private schools -- which have profit margins of 20 to 25

In the wake of the Palin endorsement in Delaware, another subplot is brewing. The Delaware GOP, which is backing Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) for the Republican

While discussing how recent natural phenomenon have ravaged his state and others, U.S. Sen

Buried in this sad-but-otherwise-unsurprising story in Monday’s New York Times about the sorry state of the immigrant detention system is this rather curious

On Monday, Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, the state’s largest anti-abortion lobby, stepped up its efforts to get a bans on abortion and funding for certain types of stem cell research included in budget negotiations aimed at ending the state shutdown. In an email alert to supporters, the group claimed that taxpayers “will be forced to pay for cloning” and urged members to contact legislators. MCCL has already sent a letter to Republican leaders demanding that anti-abortion measures be included in the budget talks and warned legislators in statements to the press that the group was “questioning that leadership” of Republicans on abortion policy.

The latest FEC filings from American Crossroads continue to tell a similar story: the nonprofit political spending group is funded almost entirely by

While the votes aren’t yet in for Iraq’s provincial elections, The New York Times reports that it looks like former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s secular Iraqi

The Senate just voted to recommend that its conferees working to reconcile the House and Senate financial regulatory reform bills include Sen. Sam Brownback’s

A few minutes ago, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan avoided giving her opinion on the Court’s ruling in Bush v. Gore, the case that effectively decided the

Michigan State Police Capt. Gary Nix says troopers arrested 11 people Wednesday night during protests at the state Capitol.

Please make it this wonderful FireDogLake exchange between Rand’s Seth Jones -- author of a new book tracing how the Afghanistan war became a fiasco --

First she exposes her ignorance on interrogations at CPAC. Now this: There is no polite way to put this: Obama’s incompetence is getting people

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