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A new report by the Michigan League for Human Services finds that long-term unemployment is at the highest rate since such measures began to be tracked in the state of Michigan. More than half of Michigan’s unemployed adults of prime working age (25-54) last year spent a half year or longer looking for jobs – the longest on record, the 2011 Labor Day Report from the Michigan League for Human Services concludes.

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) has still not made a decision about whether to lift her hold on President Obama’s nominee to head the White House Office of

Mixing classic rightwing economics and Christianist populism, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told a rapt crowd in a Minneapolis hotel Tuesday night that “government is taking from the overly happy and redistributing to the insufficiently happy.”

Want some details about how the Navy SEALs took down the pirates holding Capt. Richard Phillips hostage? Christian Lowe has some good enlightened speculation

The Michigan Supreme Court will hear oral argument this morning in a case brought by the ACLU of Michigan on behalf of a woman who was arrested for being too poor to pay child support. In a press release, the ACLU says: The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and the University of Michigan Innocence Clinic are representing Selesa Likine, who lost her job and custody of her three children after being diagnosed with a severe mental illness.

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette and Secretary of State Ruth Johnson announced Monday they had filed charges against the owner of a Lansing medical marijuana dispensary who allegedly offered free pot for registering to vote. Skekina Pena, owner of Your Healthy Choice Clinic, was arraigned Monday at 54-A District Court for “influencing voters with Money or other valuable consideration.” Pena was released on a personal bond of $3,500.

In a new series of automated phone calls launched today, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) again calls on citizens to tell Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, to “come clean” about ethics violations

Recent policies put both illegal and legal works at risk.

That didn’t take long. On the first day of the 111th Congress, House Democrats are already targeting the last-minute regulations passed down by the Bush

Last week, U.S. Rep. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) introduced H.R. 937, which was submitted with the curious name, “The Rising Tides Act of 2011.” The

Karl Rove gets all the attention, but Politico argues that the guy who’s really pulling the strings behind the Republican-boosting outside spending effort is a

Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain will be in the Sunshine State this week, for stops in both Tampa and Sanford.

The Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill -- passed out of Congress yesterday and headed for President Obama’s desk next week -- runs for 2,300 pages,

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.

When I started calling around Tuesday to the Departments of State and Defense about the prospective loss of Kyrgyzstan’s Manas air base, the critical facility

Today, Automatic Data Processing, or ADP, which processes payrolls for private companies, said that the private sector added 55,000 jobs to payroll in May --

Investigators have determined that Bill Sparkman, the census worker who was found dead with an anti-federal government message scrawled on his body, committed

The New York Times: For the first time, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has spoken out against plans to stage the trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, accused

For the past few weeks, anti-abortion rights organizations and news services have been advertising a webcast featuring one of the stars of the resurgent

The Senate is set (in a few minutes) to vote on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) just took to the