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Over 800,000 New Mexicans will face price hikes in their electric bills after a Colorado-based company and its 44 local co-ops voted 43-1 to raise the rates by 4.5 percent. Tri-State, which services 1.5 million customers in four states and covers some 200,000 square miles, generates the electricity, while its 44 cooperatives purchase the electricity in bulk for more competitive rates

Americans United for Change shares this ugly video from outside a McCain campaign rally featuring Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin yesterday in Henderson, Nev., a suburb

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s return to Des Moines was short-lived, though not by Romney’s or his supporters’ desires. Thirty minutes after taking the stage in his first Iowa visit this year, a fire alarm sounded off in the Iowa Historical Building, forcing an evacuation

Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the senior Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, is well known on Capitol Hill for his harsh criticisms of anything

The American public thinks most of the stimulus money’s been wasted; leading economists disagree. Beau Biden’s decision not to run hands his father’s old

First high-res satellite photos show extent of earthquake damage in Port-au-Prince. Hannity has some spelling issues. Dean Baker calls big bankers on

So far it looks like shareholders, employees and, of course, taxpayers are the big losers in the unprecedented Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac government bailout

Remember many things, but especially the Marines fighting in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. Here’s a progress report emailed out at 4 p.m. Friday local time/9

A beef with McChrystal may have led Eikenberry to leak his own cables. Are Vitter’s ties to the formaldehyde industry behind his block of an Obama EPA

I don’t know if I believe this, but The Guardian is reporting that President-elect Barack Obama might put out feelers for direct U.S. talks with Hamas. The

If you’ve been curious about U.S. Senate candidate and former Dallas mayor Tom Leppert’s take on the Occupy Wall Street movement, well, wonder no more. Friday

Homegrown terrorists are playing a more important role in leading and planning terrorist operations. Gov. Schwarzenegger is in Alaska, but can’t see

Obama’s plans for reforming No Child Left Behind may have to wait. Democratic senators are choosing not to lobby House members on health care. Some

Former Sen. Alan Simpson says Social Security is like a milk cow with 310 million tits. Senators don’t always read the bills they pass. Obama isn’t

Things aren’t looking good for Deeds and Corzine. Democratic voters seem to be losing enthusiasm. Bill Clinton’s on a solely private mission? Tell it to

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Following a lunchtime recess, Navy Capt. John Murphy asked Col. Patrick Parrish, the military judge overseeing Omar Khadr’s military

One year ago tomorrow—May 16, 2008—former CIA analyst and current security consultant Larry Johnson put up this blog post at his site No Quarter. I now

Iowa House Majority Leader Linda Upmeyer (R-Garner) will seek the seat in House District 54, she said Friday. Linda Upmeyer Upmeyer, the first woman House Majority Leader in Iowa history, said she is moving to Clear Lake, some odd 15 miles from Garner, after redistricting combined Franklin County with areas of Cerro Gordo and Butler counties. Garner is in Hancock County, but Upmeyer said the new House District 54 is made up of many of her current constituents

DAYTON, Ohio -- As our friends in Denver recover from their collective hangover in the wake of Sen. Barack Obama’s acceptance speech last night, those of us

By now, we all know that the federal government is pretty much impotent in the face of the seafloor gusher that’s been spewing unknowable amounts of oil into

The Senate doesn’t work. To score a visit from Obama, live in a swing state and take good care of your backyard. John Boehner backs plan to subpoena

The Dept. of Labor’s report on new unemployment claims this week put the number at 404,000.

Richard Smith at VoteVets corrects some erroneous early reports: 1LT Choi has NOT been ordered back to active duty. It would be difficult to order him back