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While major corporations and utility companies have accommodated themselves to the reality of climate change and the necessity of doing something about it, the

In a speech at the Minneapolis Convention Center Tuesday, Pres.

Word coming down the pike: the Senate Armed Services Committee is gearing up to release a fuller version of its report from last year on how the Rumsfeld-era

In reporting on my story today about the behind-the-scenes battle over requiring employers receiving stimulus money to weed out undocumented workers by using

Rep. Michele Bachmann, the iconoclastic Minnesota congresswoman becomes, as far as I can tell, the first incumbent Republican to back the Conservative Party

Marilyn Musgrave, the ultra-conservative Republican congresswoman from Colorado who disappeared for a while after her 2008 defeat, has emerged in the NY-23 to

Unprompted, TWI video intern Abbey Brandon produced a trippy (and informative!) video, breaking down this year’s open Senate seats and competitive Senate races.

Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee jokingly suggested late last week to a group of Issue 2 supporters last week that

A Colorado Springs school district spokesperson told the Colorado Independent this morning that the district’s hands are tied by state law in terms of how it handles the case of a student with a prescription for medical marijuana. “This is a legal situation with the state, not with the school district,” spokesperson Jennifer Sprague said. “State law says no one can possess or ingest medical marijuana on school grounds.

Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today signed an agreement with the IRS and nine state agencies to “improve departmental efforts to end the business practice of misclassifying employees in order to avoid providing employment protections.” A Department of Labor press release adds that “signatory states are Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Utah and Washington

Florida’s unemployment rate hit 10.9 percent for August, but 12 out of 20 metropolitan areas had higher unemployment rates, according to the “Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment” report (.pdf) released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The study shows that in almost all states’ metropolitan areas, the unemployment rate dropped between August 2010 and August 2011. The Florida metropolitan areas with the highest unemployment were Palm Coast — followed by Sebastian-Vero Beach, Port St.Lucie, Ocala and Lakeland-Winter Haven.

A Denver 2022 Winter Olympic bid may face a much stiffer challenge than the ongoing squabble between U.S. and international Olympic officials over revenue sharing

For supporters of the bill to grant Washington, D.C., a voting representative in Congress, it may be 2010 or never. At least that’s the warning coming from

Bill Kristol hears that Rasmussen Reports, the conservative pollster whose surveys have consistently shown the lowest levels of support for the stimulus, is

From The Colorado Independent: Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today issued a notice of withdrawal of nearly 1 million acres of BLM and U.S. Forest Service land

The debate held Monday among the candidates for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee was like an egg cream -- the literal meaning isn’t the

A handful of high-profile Christian activist groups and conservative legislators have declined to lend their support to Florida’s proposed fetal personhood amendment, an initiative that aims to outlaw abortion and some forms of birth control. # That’s not deterring Personhood Florida leader Bryan Longworth, who says many of those who “have a negative view of the bill have participated in an abortion” and “have to come to grips with the fact that they participated in taking their own child’s life.” # Anti-abortion critics say the initiative is simply too extreme, and are instead supporting legislation like a bill that would require that women seeking an abortion undergo mandatory ultrasounds.

A new study released this week by the conservative Tax Foundation shows that Florida has the fifth lowest unemployment benefits in the country. Florida’s unemployment tax currently averages about 0.5 percent of all wages, which is eighth among the 50 states.

The Associated Press reports: Counterterrorism officials have moved the names of dozens of people onto the terror watch list and the no-fly list after

The Senate just voted 77-23 to end debate and move to a final vote on the confirmation of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke for a second term. The final confirmation

A federal court today ruled that the government can continue to suppress transcripts of former CIA prisoners now being held at Guantanamo Bay talking about

Not all initiatives geared toward improving student performance and school competitiveness have to do with punitive benchmarks and the threat of charters or

The May jobs number is out, and at first blush it looks good. The economy added 431,000 jobs in May and the unemployment rate tracked down to 9.7 percent. But

David C. Gompert, a former RAND Corporation vice president and longtime nonpartisan State and National Security Council official (Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush the