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How real is the taint of incumbency this year? The New York Times points out today that even Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah), among the most conservative lawmakers

Offices, stores and industrial buildings are all facing a perfect storm of increasing vacancies and a lack of capital with which to refinance their debt.

The New York Times reports that the draft U.S.-Iraq deal has U.S. troops pulling out of Iraqi "cities and villages" by June 2009 and combat forces

Anti-abortion measures are advancing in state legislatures all around the country. Here’s the latest: # Alaska: Legislators halt insurance program for low-income women and children.

Before James O’Keefe recorded his undercover ACORN videos he cut this Yes Men-ish video for Right.org, in which his Taxpayers Clearing House, mimicking the

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Rick Hasen reports on his election law blog that the California high court agreed Wednesday to consider whether Proposition 8 passes muster under the state

I spent my morning attending the fifth birthday of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the management organization dedicated to marshaling the

At Tuesday night’s annual Society of Professional Journalists awards banquet, the Minnesota Independent was honored with three Page One Awards, including first place prize for “Best Independent News Blog.” In that category, judges wrote that the Minnesota Independent is “ easy to navigate” and offers “lots of supplemental information and good participation from readers.” Also taking home a first was photographer Kathy Easthagen for her photo essay about President Barack Obama’s 2010 rally at the University of Minnesota with then-candidate and current governor Mark Dayton (who gave the keynote speech at last night’s banquet).

Via The Hill: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters Thursday that he has enough votes to pass a more than $900 billion stimulus bill out of

In response to our earlier post indicating that Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) might harbor questions about President Obama’s citizenship, McHenry spokesman

Anyone who has ever been unemployed or underemployed (working part-time or freelancing when one needs full-time work) knows that it’s quite easy to get down

The Vet Voice Foundation has commissioned a rare scientific poll to survey military attitudes about the ban on open gay military service. It’s found broad and

Well, somebody’s making the best of the foreclosure crisis: Skateboarders are having a field day practicing in the empty swimming pools of foreclosed homes, the

In an interview with Matt Lewis, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) moves Ken Cuccinelli’s ball down the field, saying it won’t even be close on how

Politico’s Ben Smith reports: Reacting to a rising tide of anger from gay and lesbian supporters at a series of slights and deferred promises, President Obama

If you want to know why some consumer advocates and others are concerned about current financial regulatory reform proposals to house a Consumer Financial

For thousands of Americans without work and collecting unemployment insurance, the process gets stickier today with the arrival of the deadline for accessing

UPDATE*: Aug. 8, 2011, 2 p.m. EST The Summer of Mercy 2.0 ended Monday morning with a final protest in front of Dr. LeRoy Carhart’s abortion clinic in

It’s angry Tea Party town hall month in America and, in Arizona yesterday, Senator John McCain got a taste of the kind of crazy that colored Colorado’s gubernatorial race last year.