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Rep. Hansen Clarke (D-Detroit) is working on legislation that would capture federal taxes paid by people and businesses in Detroit and use the money on redevelopment projects. In a Labor Day letter to President Obama, Clarke wrote: First, I would like you to consider supporting a series of federal proposals to create jobs and increase economic growth in and around the City of Detroit: • A Detroit Jobs Trust Fund bill to capture the federal tax revenues collected from persons and entities in the City of Detroit to be invested in local redevelopment efforts for a period of five years.

This article was updated at 3 p.m. to include a link from The Florida Independent. “Grassroots uprising” is how Americans United for Life (AUL) has

Sen. Graham (R-S.C.) is typically regarded as a reliable vote for his party, but he took the bold step of breaking with his fellow Republicans to join Kerry

NDN, formerly called the New Democrat Network, is running Spanish-language ads in Arizona urging Latinos to vote in the midterm elections. Their pitch? Latinos

Congressman Tim Walberg says that had GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney been the party’s nominee in 2008, he would never have lost his 7th Congressional District seat to Democrat Mark Schauer. In a piece analyzing the GOP gathering at Mackinac Island this weekend, Politico reports Walberg had this to say on the nominee: “Had Romney been the nominee , I’d be in my third term now instead of my second term,” said Rep

State Rep. Daphen Campbell, D-Miami Shores (Pic by Meredith Geddings, via myfloridahouse.gov ) State Rep. Daphne Campbell, D-Miami Shores, has been inadvertently caught up in the ongoing controversy over the decision by home improvement giant Lowe’s to pull advertising from the TLC show All-American Muslim , a decision made due to pressure from the Tampa-based Florida Family Association

Though not two years old, the defense think tank has emerged as an influential center for studying contemporary national-security issues. If its fellows join the new administration, expect counterinsurgency to be a major focus in policy.

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the architect of the 9/11 attacks, attempted to plead guilty on Monday. But civil libertarians wonder if the plea is compromised by the fact of his torture and the dubious constitutionality of the military tribunals hearing the cases.

The ACLU and other immigrants rights groups called today for an overhaul of the immigration detention system, one year after the Immigration and Customs

To build off Matt’s post, check out what Megan Carpentier and Moe Tkacik had to say about the AEY war-profiteering story: MOE: Okay, so the company is

The on-again, off-again meeting between House GOP leaders and the sponsors of a bill to create a new tier of federal unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed finally took place on Thursday in Washington. Jackie Headapohl of MLive.com reports : After the meeting, Rep. Lee issued a statement: “We had a productive meeting with the Speaker and the Majority Leader to discuss this critical issue of providing aid for long-term unemployed workers,” said Representative Barbara Lee.

For Republicans in Washington trying to latch onto the small-government momentum of the Tea Party movement, there’s this little glitch: Their very jobs depend

In Alabama, it is time to get the hell out.

ATLANTIC — Joseph Vanstrom doesn’t fear globalization. And it’s not just because he’s a towering former lineman for Iowa State University’s Cyclone football team

In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Ingham County court, citizens from across the state are asking that Michigan’s Emergency Manager law be declared unconstitutional. The Local Government and School District Fiscal Accountability Act allows the governor to appoint Emergency Managers to take over local units of government, fire elected officials, sell off or privatize community assets and even dissolve whole cities.

Presidential candidate Fred Karger has yet to be included in a GOP presidential debate, but isn’t giving up. Weeks after launching a petition for inclusion in Aug.

Protesters part of the 99 percent movement marched on the Upper East Side of New York City Tuesday, planting themselves on a block between FAO Schwarz and Bloomingdale’s where high-profile members of New York’s moneyed elite live.

The controversial Quran-burning pastor Terry Jones says that state Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grandville) called him and asked to speak at his Wednesday rally but “chickened out” when it came time to stand on the Capitol steps and give a speech about his anti-foreign laws legislation

A ruling on the American Civil Liberties Union’s case challenging the implementation of Florida’s new elections law has still not come down, and lawyers for Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Secretary of State Kurt Browning renewed their push to get the case dismissed in a filing Monday

TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox delivers this video report from a McCain rally in Fairfax County, Va. Here it is, after the jump:

Restaurant owner Jason Bailey said Thursday he supports Denver’s paid sick days initiative and he blasted the Colorado and National Restaurant Associations for fighting the ballot measure. He termed the opposition of the restaurant groups “more of the same,” saying those groups represent large corporations like McDonald’s, more than they do people like him. Bailey owns Parsley, a small mostly vegetarian, mostly organic sandwich, salad, soup and smoothie restaurant at 11th and Cherokee in Denver.

Coal mining in Colorado is conducted about as quietly as any form of major extractive energy production can be. One might even say it’s somewhat of an underground industry. But there’s a robust Colorado coal-mining industry – one that operates largely off the radar in far-flung locations like the North Fork of the Gunnison River and between Hayden and Oak Creek in Routt County

Rep. Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale, told the South Florida Sun Sentinel Tuesday that sexuality is a “behavior” that can be changed, something he’s “seen people do.” # The South Florida Republican said “that everyone has the same basic rights, and no one is telling people in the gay community that they don’t have the same basic rights that any American has.” Asked if gays and lesbians should change their behavior, West said no: “I like chocolate chip ice cream and I will continue to like chocolate chip ice cream