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About 100 supporters of the Occupy Des Moines movement gathered outside the Polk County Courthouse Wednesday morning in advance of an appearance before a judge for trespassing charges.

Colorado US Senator Michael Bennet seems to love his job as much as he hates the senate . That is, he seems to relish the opportunity to make change that matters as much as he reviles the fact that senate rules and procedures and politics work against anyone making any kind of change at all

Rep. David River, R-Miami (Pic via davidrivera.org) Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel sat down with the St. Petersburg Times yesterday to discuss the Democratic fight to take back the House in 2012

All of Michele Bachmann’s paid New Hampshire staffers quit her campaign Friday, Politico reports . Bachmann did not have a large campaign staff in the Granite State and had focused much of her efforts in Iowa, but the news comes as a blow to a campaign that has floundered since briefly tasting success in the Iowa Straw Poll. Her staff told reporters on Friday that they had intended to quit sooner, but waited so as to damage her image

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This morning, the Pasco County Board of Commissioners met to discuss the landfill application of Angelo’s Aggregates — a controversial proposal that was denied in the past and could damage environmentally sensitive lands.

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Patrick O’Connor reports on a new hazing tactic by House Republicans in which they wait for vulnerable freshman Democrats to take the floor, then beat them up

The deal struck by President Obama and the Republican leaders of the U.S. House and Senate protects against cuts for those currently receiving unemployment benefits but it all but ensures that there will not be another extension of those benefits at the end of the year.

Fred Bartlit, chief counsel for the national oil spill commission, said today that his investigation into the causes of the massive Gulf oil spill has been

Immigration, that snaggletooth of an issue that has set the Bush administration against its conservative base, is now driving a wedge between Republican leaders

Coloradans blame market speculation and oil companies for high gas prices, and the vast majority say the best way to bring prices down is to crackdown on market manipulation, according to a poll released Tuesday. The Checks and Balances Project commissioned Colorado pollster Chris Keating to conduct research that shows that 79 percent of Coloradans favor a crackdown on oil price speculation and market manipulation to reduce gas prices. The survey showed 77 percent of Colorado voters think reducing oil consumption through efficiency would also be an effective way to reduce prices.

Sen. Barack Obama’s vote was recorded, broadcast, reported and blogged in real time. His campaign still turned the footage into one of the fastest ads of this

The Guttmacher Institute on Tuesday launched its first animated short film, summarizing information about women in America who have abortions -- information the

To gaze in one’s own navel: I said earlier I’d be listening to Obama’s Af-Pak speech for answers to four questions, like this was Passover or something. So what

Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert might be ready to flex the muscles of his newly established Super PAC, and he seems willing to begin the work-out in Iowa. On The Colbert Report Monday night, the comedian told other potential PACs hoping to back Texas Gov. Rick Perry to back off, “I saw him first.” According to Colbert, he will premiere an ad offering in Iowa Wednesday night during news broadcasts in the Des Moines area.

I’m just getting to President Bush’s What Sadrist Intifada? speech from yesterday. It’s predictably stupid. (Since the surge began, business registrations

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says his controversial budget repair bill protected the state’s middle class by avoiding layoffs and government expansion that average Wisconsinites would have ended up paying for. Walker was at the Sheraton Hotel in West Des Moines on Wednesday for a fundraising dinner benefiting the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank located in Washington, D.C.

GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney will make pre- straw poll appearances in Iowa this week to meet voters, campaign staff announced. The former Massachusetts Governor will skip the Straw Poll this time around, though he is confirmed to participate in Thursday’s GOP presidential debate in Ames, and is on the poll ballot. Romney is scheduled to hold a business roundtable at Vermeer Corporation in Pella Wednesday, followed by a Polk County Republican fundraiser in the capital city.

Through the wonders of Twitter, Nick Schwellenbach sends along this piece he wrote way way back in 2007 about the need for a new Church committee. Consider it