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If Ohio voters do not reject Senate Bill 5 today in a statewide referendum, it would probably be prudent to acquaint themselves with terms such as “blue

As Gov. Rick Perry makes tours the country promoting Texas as the country’s hub for job growth, minority communities in the state with already high

An AP story examining data from the 2010 Census reports that nearly a quarter of counties across the U.S. are dying. And that isn’t as figurative as it may

On Fox News yesterday, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) again stated his support for an expansion of Operation Streamline, a Bush-era program that requires federal

One of the members of Occupy Des Moines thinks there’s a good chance occupiers from around the country will descend on Iowa in the coming weeks to demonstrate at presidential candidates’ offices. Ed Fallon, a former state legislator and gubernatorial candidate, said Friday there’s a lot of buzz around the country around the plan. Fallon now hosts a radio show called “The Fallon Forum,” where he holds discussions on progressive issues

Companies are back to profitability -- in part because of the massive layoffs of the past two years. But they are not back to hiring yet, instead holding onto

Ben Smith notes that the infamous Paul Shanklin CD that Republican National Committee chairman candidate Chip Saltsman sent around to committee members — the

Appearing today on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) outlined tension between House Democratic leadership and the party’s conservative Blue

Environmental groups have participated in a series of meetings in recent weeks to press Senate staff to strengthen the renewable energy standard included in Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s energy bill.

Michael Steele might be difficult to oust as RNC chairman. Joe Biden thinks reports of the Democrats’ demise are premature. The Justice Department may

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said in a recent interview with Big Think that he believes the country is at a point where it will soon be acceptable to

The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday evening passed HR 2560, also known as the Cut, Cap and Balance Act, by a 234-190 margin with every Michigan Republican in the chamber voting for the bill. The bill would force massive cuts in federal spending to bring the budget down to a maximum of 18 percent of the previous year’s Gross Domestic Product

The Associated Press is reporting that the Obama administration will release a new moratorium on offshore drilling later today. The new moratorium comes as

Nate Silver of the New York Times’ FiveThirtyEight graphed the potential 2012 presidential contenders based on their insider/outsider status and their position on a moderate-to-conservative scale. Not surprisingly, Rep. Michele Bachmann took the conservative extreme.

CQ Politics has a piece today that anyone actually interested in what the health care debate is (and isn’t) about ought to look at. It looks at the wildly

“‘I have the experience, the seniority, I’ve delivered for the state.’ There are nine out of ten elections in which that works. There’s one election in which it wont,” says G. Terry Madonna of Franklin and Marshall College.

A New Zealand landfill (Pic by Samuel Mann, via Flickr) After months of opposition on the part of both lawmakers and area residents, the review of a controversial landfill permit in Pasco County has been delayed. A 2009 landfill permit request from Angelo’s Aggregate Materials was rejected by the state Department of Environmental Protection amid fears that the landfill could lead to sinkholes and cause harm to the nearby environmentally sensitive Green Swamp. In recent months (following the appointment of new Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Herschel Vinyard), the permit was revived , and signs seemed to point to approval by the state

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President Obama will be in Michigan today, but, at least according to his public schedule, he won’t be stopping in Battle Creek, the site of an oil spill that

A couple weeks ago, the New America Foundation’s Michael Cohen worried that President Obama’s defense acquisition and procurement reforms might overlook the

From more than 200 people gathering on a rainy Saturday on Miami Dade Community College’s Wolfson Campus this weekend to a smaller meeting this Sunday at the Miami Workers Center, Miami-ans are mobilizing in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement. Occupy Wall Street has been gaining momentum all over the country, including in Florida.

This morning, the Department of Labor said that initial jobless claims edged up last week, from 460,000 to 479,000. Economists expected the number of claims to

John Morton, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, makes the same general speech at all of his appearances: The Obama administration is serious about

Protesters demonstrating against the proposed ICE facility (Pic by Marcos Restrepo) Pembroke Pines Commissioner Angelo Castillo tells The Florida Independent that as an immigrant and an advocate for comprehensive immigration reform he abhors the proposed immigration detention center to be built on a lot surrounded by his city.