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A new music video called “My Water’s On Fire Tonight (The Fracking Song)” by David Holmes and journalism students at New York University’s Studio 20 is making the rounds after being posted on the Pulitzer Prize-winning website ProPublica this morning .

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is set to tell her side of the SB 1070 drama in a provocatively titled memoir due out in November. “Scorpions For Breakfast: My Fight Against Special Interests, Liberal Media and Cynical Politicos to Secure America’s Border” is scheduled to be published in November by Broadside Books, a conservative imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

Tuesday is election day, with municipal and school board elections in many communities across the state (check the Minnesota Secretary of State’s website for information on whether there’s an election in your area). If you have any questions on where, when or how to vote, the League of Women Voters has information on how to register to vote, where to vote in your local area, what to bring to the polling place and all the relevant laws governing the process at Vote411.org .

A bit of financial regulatory reform process math: Today, Senators are debating Sen. Barbara Boxer’s (D-Calif.) symbolic amendment ensuring that no taxpayer

Dozens of protesters occupied the office of Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer on Tuesday, demanding that he oppose the federal government’s approval of the Keystone XL pipeline that would bring tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas. The protesters argued that Gov

The Obama administration just won a round in the lawsuit brought by five alleged torture victims against Jeppesen Dataplan, the Boeing subsidiary that allegedly

The Michigan unemployment report for August is out and the results, while predictable, are more bad news for a state economy that hasn’t seen consistent job growth in years. Michigan’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased in August by three-tenths of a percentage point to 11.2 percent, according to data released today by the Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget (DTMB).

The release of radio traffic from the March 16 arrest incidents at the Capitol has lawmakers asking questions and raising concerns about the role politics may have played in the decision to withdraw Lansing Police officers during the March 16 Capitol protest.

When it comes to being offensive, Democratic Jacksonville City Council candidate Kimberly Daniels doesn’t discriminate. # Daniels, a former prostitute and drug dealer turned preacher, has come under fire recently for controversial comments made over the years

Much as I agree with Andrew Exum that this Washington Post post-mortem tick tock on the killing of the F-22 is worth reading, this paragraph seems a bit, well,

In the wake of the GOP’s dismal showing in Tuesday’s elections, Rep. Roy Blunt (Mo.), the House Republican whip, is stepping down from his leadership perch,

Whether or not House Democrats end up seeing the anti-torture memo that Philip Zelikow wrote while at the State Department in 2005, a Senate Judiciary

Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) bill overhauling the regulation of banks and financial firms has passed, 59 to 39. In short, the bill makes the financial system

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. -- At a short press availability in his campaign office here, NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman said that a GOTV volunteer’s

Most of the funding for the National Organization for Marriage, a 501(c)(4) grassroots group dedicated to opposing same-sex marriage, comes from a few

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is expected to announce his candidacy for President Monday, several media outlets, including USA Today , are reporting, and that announcement could very take place in Iowa. Pawlenty is scheduled to be in Des Moines Monday morning, Eric Woolson, a senior consultant for Pawlenty confirmed

It’s a historic night for South Carolina Republicans -- they nominated candidates who broke significant gender and racial hurdles, while a third incumbent

Cornell University researchers have found that natural gas produced by hydraulic fracturing creates more damaging greenhouse gas emissions than coal. Methane leaks from hydraulic fracturing operations have not been taken into account by those promoting natural gas as a less-polluting “bridge fuel” Robert W. Howarth, Renee Santoro, and Anthony Ingraffea write in an article slated to run in an upcoming edition of the journal Climatic Change

PG&E, the owner of the natural gas pipeline in San Bruno, Calif., that burst earlier this month killing four people and destroying dozens of homes, released

Based on reports from the D.C. media, it’s hard to judge whether freshman U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Corpus Christi) is filthy-rich, neck-deep in debt, or

Noel Hammatt has a bone to pick with the billions of federal and state dollars being thrown at poor kids in under-served communities. Put simply, too much