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In congressional testimony on Friday, the federal Environmental Protection Agency was again criticized for its proposed numeric nutrient criteria, a set of standards to regulate pollution from nitrogen and phosphorus in Florida waterways. But EPA representatives defended the agency’s decision to implement the standards, arguing that they are needed for the health and safety of citizens and businesses struggling to survive in harsh economic times. # The decision to force the state to implement a stringent set of nutrient criteria came as the result of legislation — but both the EPA and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection had for years been attempting to draft something similar

Andrew Exum of the Center for a New American Security, one of the advisers for Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s Afghanistan strategy review, doesn’t know if Ahmed Wali

Senate Democrats sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today asking her not to prejudge the outcome of an Obama administration review of a

I’d like to know what Kyle Smith thinks of Will Ferrell’s one-man play about former President George W. Bush. Instead, the New York Post’s writer spends eight

Though Michigan continues to lack many legislative victories that are seen as important by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents, the state is also seeing the rise of more openly gay elected officials on the local levels. In 2008, Detroit saw the election of Charles Pugh as Detroit City Council president, making him the first openly gay black man to hold such a post in the country. Ferndale resident Craig Covey became the state’s first openly gay mayor and has since moved to the Oakland County Commission

A security guard at DTE Energy’s Fermi 2 nuclear power plant shot himself in the foot yesterday while putting away his weapon.

Accused by a former business partner of being a “news wuss” and by one of his former editors of lacking “journalistic standards, ethics and principles,” Denver Daily News and Vail Mountaineer owner Jim Pavelich took the high road today in announcing he was shutting down both newspapers. “I’d like to thank all the advertisers who supported us,” Pavelich told the Vail Daily , a paper Pavelich founded in 1981 and sold for millions 12 years later

Part 1: Programs like Bush-initiated Hope Now allow government and lending industry to show they are doing something while not doing much

Boulder Democrat Jared Polis ranks No. 6 on Roll Call’s list of the wealthiest members of Congress, with $65.91 million in assets.

Remember Roberto DePosada, the Republican president of Latinos for Reform who released an ad urging Latinos not to vote in Tuesday’s election, because the

Politico reports that Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) will unveil today an energy tax incentives bill. Coral Davenport writes in Politico’s Morning Energy: He

This Washington Post story about the recession pulling more mothers out of the home and into the workforce recalls this recent column by L.A. Times columnist

Since assuming the chairmanship of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee following the retaking of the lower chamber by the GOP last November, the number

Few supporters — for that matter, opponents — expected GOP candidate and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) would jump into the 2012 race during the New Hampshire primary debate June 13, after telling reporters her decision on the presidency would be announced in her native Waterloo .

Pennsylvania’s proposed school choice bill is being sold as an opportunity for the economically challenged to leave underperforming schools. The plan is

I just got off a conference call with Brig. Gen. Robert Holmes, a deputy director for operations at U.S. Central Command, which directs U.S. military operations

Lindsay Beyerstein, operating on the principle that an expense-approval system slapdash enough to miss an expense for Voyeur West Hollywood, finds extremely

The Florida Presidential Preference Primary Committee’s decision to move the date of that state’s GOP presidential primary to January is a hot topic for conservative media and bloggers. In a piece titled “Florida Republicans for Obama,” The Wall Street Journal comments: Republicans will have a hard time losing the next Presidential election, but they may be up to the job.

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) will give her own rebuttal to President Obama’s State of The Union Tuesday, broadcast by the Tea Party Express. There are two

White House officials who crafted the Bush administration’s torture policies, David Addington, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney and John Yoo, a