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A water forum sponsored by Associated Industries of Florida and the Florida Section of the American Water Works Association will be held next Friday in Orlando. According to a press release, the event will “address Florida’s water crisis,” with discussions centering on the EPA’s proposed — and controversial — numeric nutrient criteria , a set of water pollution standards that aim to combat the state’s nutrient problem

Planned Parenthood battled anti-abortion groups in civil court in the 1990s -- and won.

Bloomberg News’ Caroline Baum has a tart piece on strategic defaults and consumer spending -- invoking the theory, first put forward by HousingWire’s Paul

Bobby Joe Rogers (Pic via escambiaso.com ) Police today announced they have made an arrest following a fire at a Pensacola area abortion clinic early Sunday morning. After a joint investigation involving the Division of State Fire Marshal’s Bureau of Fire and Arson Investigations and other members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, officers determined that Bobby Joe Rogers of Tuscaloosa, Ala., set fire to the clinic, causing approximately $300,000 in damage.

A fresh-out statement from Geoff Morrell, chief spokesman for Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, reacting to the proposed legislative language for repealing the

During the U.S. Senate debate in Morgantown, W.Va., last night, Republican John Raese’s campaign kept me faithfully updated with emails pairing Gov. Joe

The New York Times takes a swipe at the Obama administration today, in a sobering editorial warning that more needs to be done to address the alarming number of

As House and Senate leaders confer about the final details of what will be President Obama’s $800-plus billion stimulus plan, both sides are seeking to cut a

The man who wrote the new GOP.com’s 19th century-centric Heroes page has issued a new email blast about Republican history.

Today, the Securities and Exchange Commission met with the heads of the major U.S. stock exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange and alternative venues

In the culmination of today’s big push from activists to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the White House budget director, Peter Orszag, has written a (rather

... Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the third-ranking Republican in the House, who has mastered the art of making full-bore partisan attacks in the measured tones of

Or maybe it won’t take so long. The Senate just voted 73-17 to close debate on Chris Hill’s nomination to become U.S. ambassador to Iraq. Sen. Sam Brownback

As if this day wasn’t bloody enough already: twin car bombs detonating in a west Baghdad bus station have killed 26 people at least. If I’m not mistaken, that

House Democratic leaders just started a series of procedural votes leading up to what they hope will be passage of sweeping legislation extending a number of

Responding to growing concerns about immigrants displacing U.S. workers, assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)

Confounding some of their early findings last night, the Public Policy Polling survey of South Carolina’s 2nd congressional district finds that voters have

Enacted as part of February’s economic stimulus bill, the popular $8,000 tax credit for new homebuyers expires Nov. 30, prompting calls among some lawmakers to

There’s at least one person on Capitol Hill who doesn’t think comprehensive immigration reform is dead this year. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) said on

Bob Fertik of Democrats.com has put that question to Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, who made that Cheneyesque argument to Joe

President Obama named a dozen faith leaders to the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships on Friday, and two of them hail from Minnesota. Leith Anderson of the National Association of Evangelicals, who is also Tim Pawlenty’s pastor, was appointed by Obama, as was fellow Minnesota Bishop Mark Hanson of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The council, formerly known under President Bush as the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, has had a healthy number of Minnesotans under Obama.

The scandal threatens to bring the housing market to a standstill and wipe out banks’ bottom lines, possibly necessitating another bailout.

After Philip Zelikow, a former aide to Condoleezza Rice, disclosed yesterday that he wrote a memo in 2005 dissenting from the Office of Legal Counsel’s embrace

As I mentioned, Marcy has a question about something from retired FBI agent Ali Soufan’s op-ed in The New York Times. Soufan’s whole op-ed is about how a joint