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CQ reports that there may be some changes afoot in the chairmanship of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: Depending on how the Senate’s

Live Action, Lila Rose’s anti-abortion rights group , recently released a video that features “undercover phone calls” aimed at displaying how Indiana’s law defunding Planned Parenthood has no effect on Medicaid beneficiaries. The group is claiming that the Obama administration is exercising an “abuse of power” by threatening to withhold federal Medicaid funds from the state.

The press conference at the Watergate Hotel opened with a question for the assembled reporters: How many of you have voted already? A majority of the sixty

By now, most people have heard about The Associated Press report that Sen. Barack Obama has a distant aunt –- his deceased father’s half-sister -– living

To the Obama administration’s pattern of sticking up for itself on its counterterrorism record, add this: None of about 48 Guantanamo Bay detainees released or

Following up on reports that the nonprofit group, Americans for Job Security, has been avoiding the donor disclosure requirements on its independent

State Rep. Scott Plakon, R-Longwood (Pic by Meredith Geddings, via myfloridahouse.gov) With the beginning of session only days away, Florida legislators have been busy filing a slew of anti-abortion bills.

As the Senate prepares to tackle the thorny topic of global warming, supporters of a bipartisan proposal to cut U.S. carbon emissions face a difficult sell.

Gov. Scott Walker; Source: Gateway Technical College, Flickr Starting Tuesday, Wisconsin Democrats and labor groups will start an effort to gather more than 550,000 signatures by mid-January on a petition to recall Gov

OK, with the caveat that exit polling is voodoo and probably reflective of a Democratic bias, there’s something interesting in the guts of CNN’s exit poll from

This is from a just-issued FBI press release about a new terrorism indictment against seven men in North Carolina: From roughly November 2006 through at least

Even more affluent consumers are failing to pay their mortgages and credit card bills on time, the Financial Times reports. JPMorganChase chief executive

The president-elect has raised the expectations for all of us, patriotic expectations, moral expectations, expectations of what it means to be a citizen. But as Obama raises expectations, he must also lower them. There are going to be sacrifices involved. That’s the trick.

Well, it appears I was wrong. Several media outlets reported late Wednesday that unnamed Democratic officials said President-elect Barack Obama will likely tap

Florida’s Catholic bishops repeated their plea for Gov. Rick Scott to call off the execution of Manuel Valle, the subject of Scott’s first death warrant . # Valle was convicted of the 1978 killing of a Coral Gables police officer, and first sentenced in 1981

Editor Cooper Levey-Baker (Pic by Cliff Roles ) Impact. It’s a word we at The Florida Independent throw around daily behind the scenes, but it’s not an idea we talk about much in public. Sure, it’s featured prominently in our statement of purpose ( to produce “news that impacts public debate and advances the common good” ), but in the daily What Have You Published in the Last 10 Minutes?

Last week the Michigan Supreme Court held hearings on the constitutionality of two budget proposals that amount to tax increases, one on high-earning state residents and the other on the pensions of former public employees. The new taxes were part of the budget for FY 2012

Marc Caputo reports on the rumors of a Chamber of Commerce-sponsored poll in Florida that shows Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) slipping below the 50 percent line

Friday, The Colorado Independent wrote about Al Gore’s Aspen speech , but we had technical difficulties in posting the audio. Those difficulties have been overcome, and you can listen here. Al Gore calls B.S

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday signaled that he may be willing to push back a vote on a climate bill until 2010. So, you know, we are