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The appearance of a man who claims to be a reformed terrorist at a rally against illegal immigration at the Capitol building in Lansing is raising questions both about the accuracy of his story and the propriety of his invitation to speak.

President-elect Barack Obama’s top appointments shouldn’t be ignored, but here are crucial sub-cabinet jobs critical to the success of his foreign-policy agenda.

In Georgia, money generated by the sale of that state’s “Choose Life” license plates goes directly to crisis pregnancy centers that counsel women not to have abortions, and a bill now pending in the Florida legislature could open the door for Floridians’ money to flow to similar centers here. # Sponsored by state Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, Senate Bill 196 aims to redirect the funds made off the brightly colored plates from Florida counties directly into the hands of the Ocala-based organization Choose Life, Inc.

Dr. Steven Miles, a professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School and faculty member of its Center for Bioethics, for years tried to track the deaths

Trip Jennings reports that Sen. John Arthur Smith, D-Deming, drafted a compromise bill on the state’s unemployment compensation fund, raising taxes on businesses by a lesser amount than Gov

Recently, political memes have surfaced that do not have much basis in reality. Matt Bai of the New York Times sees murmurs of a primary challenge against

The Washington Post today reports that, having suffered a series of legislative losses over the last year, environmentalists are working to gain back their

Under a new ruling, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) will allow traditional political action committees to merge with super PACs, effectively allowing

Environmentalists scrambled today to get control of the midterm narrative following a crushing defeat for Democrats in the House and Senate. At a press

An editorial in the Los Angeles Times implored state education officials to re-instate an erasure analysis of standardized public school tests. The state

Normally when I see the Wall Street Journal flash breaking news like, the Dow industrials fall more than 600 on fears bailout package vote will fail, I’d

Speaking before Florida’s Oil Spill Economic Recovery Task Force Thursday, oil spill claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg faced lingering questions about

Yesterday evening, the House passed a stripped-down supplemental war funding bill, providing the administration with $59 billion for continuing operations in

Only five of the 10 Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee voted today against the nomination of Tim Geithner for Treasury secretary, but it’s worth noting

State revenue will continue to grow in the coming years, members of the state’s Revenue Estimating Conference say, but not as fast as they would like. The three-member group tasked with determining how much money will come into the state lowered it’s March estimate for fiscal year 2012 based on legislative changes and set new growth levels for that fiscal year and the next on Friday.

This is one of those lopsided things where if they win it’s nothing, said Grover Norquist, and if we win it’s the cover of Time magazine.

Women and minorities are under-represented in the nearly 6,000 appointments Texas Gov. Rick Perry has made in his decade in office, according to the Abilene

Not totally clear yet, but it seems that way. From NPR just now: While Iran did not reject the plan outright, state TV said that Tehran was waiting for a

The U.S. House of Representatives could vote this week on a 2012 Homeland Security Appropriations bill passed last Thursday by the Appropriations Committee that includes expanded spending on immigration enforcement. # The Appropriations Committee members include Florida Republicans Ander Crenshaw, C.W.

Not many party strategists were talking last night, but come January 2011, that’s who many expect to be filling the Senate seats of, respectively, Byron Dorgan

New Mexico lost 30,600 non-farm jobs from June 2006 to June 2011, placing it 22nd out of 50 states and the District of Columbia in job numbers, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, there was overall job growth in three of the past five years

Opponents of Ohio’s so-called “voter suppression bill” have been given 10 additional days to collect 10,000 valid signatures to place the bill, House Bill