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A burning sugar cane field (Pic by skatoolaki, via Flickr) The high costs of American sugar, coupled with quotas that make it near-impossible for the product to be imported, have led two congressmen to file a bill that would overhaul the way the industry does business.

Minnesota for Marriage, a coalition advocating for passage of a 2012 vote on a constitutional same-sex marriage ban, launched a campaign Wednesday that will award people prizes for obtaining pledges to support the ban. The campaign asks each person to obtain five pledges to support the ban in order to be considered for a prize drawing. Drawing winners will receive a $100 Visa gift card

It’s hard to stay awake watching Congress. Jim DeMint doesn’t want gay people teaching in public schools. The Naked Cowboy announces he’s running for

President Barack Obama (Pic by The White House, via Flickr) President Obama announced today that $50 million in additional funds will be going toward treatment and care for people living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S. Obama said during “The Beginning of the End of AIDS,” an online conference organized by ONE International , “a grassroots advocacy and campaigning organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa”: Today, I’m announcing some new commitments. We’re committing an additional $15 million for the Ryan White program that supports care provided by HIV medical clinics across the country

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) just announced that she will block the nomination of Jack Lew to be the Obama Administration’s new Office of Management and Budget

James Gordon, the former director of operations for the North American branch of ArmorGroup -- the State Department contractor accused of physical and sexual

Let’s unpack a claim about the Guantanamo detainees, as summarized by Marc Ambinder: It had been the hope of administration legal advisers that a majority of

Poverty has increased substantially in Colorado and across the country, according to preliminary state Census Bureau figures released today . Roughly one in every eight Coloradans was living in poverty in 2009 and 2010, including 192,000 Coloradans who fell into poverty since 2000.

In a piece published today, TWI detailed how a recount in the gubernatorial race between Democrat Mark Dayton and Republican Tom Emmer might play out. Dayton

There’s talk about how Iran’s apparent rejection of President Obama’s outreach represents the end of a 2008 campaign goal. And it’s not exactly wrong, though it

Reuters points out one fascinating subplot to the story of whether the Obama administration will approve completion of the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast: It would help make his most prominent political adversaries even richer. What’s been left out of the ferocious debate over the pipeline, however, is the prospect that if president Obama allows a permit for the Keystone XL to be granted, he would be handing a big victory and great financial opportunity to Charles and David Koch, his bitterest political enemies and among the most powerful opponents of his clean economy agenda… An unknown amount of company profits — figures are unavailable as the company is privately held — come from the Pine Bend Refinery near St.

IOWA CITY — The general public has a warped view of a bill that would make it a crime to produce audio or video of an agriculture facility because media coverage of the proposal “is disingenuous,” according to Iowa Sen. Sandy Greiner (R-Keota).

State health officials are reassuring people who live near the Kalamazoo River that touching submerged oil on the river bottom is not likely to cause cancer.

After being tipped off by a recent Washington Blade article about GOP LGBT groups’ attempts to influence the Republican Party platform at the 2012 Republican

Bowing to the banking industry, House Democrats yesterday weakened legislation empowering bankruptcy judges to alter the terms of primary mortgages to prevent

One year and one day after the Bush administration first offered to rescue GMAC, the Obama White House has announced a $3.8 billion bailout for the struggling

Texas Gov. Rick Perry -- currently in the lead, according to Gallup, to be the Republican nominee for president in 2012 -- signed (PDF) on Wednesday the Susan

As women’s health clinics across the state shutter and scale back services following massive family planning cuts by the Texas Legislature, abortion rights

A fascinating tidbit from Taylor Branch’s history of the 42nd president’s term in office, The Clinton Tapes, drawn out in this review by Matthew Cooper: Who

Rasmussen Reports finds Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) clinging to a two-point lead over a possible challenger, former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.). Chris Simcox,

It was bound to happen some day. From Sarah Palin’s Facebook account, her newest epistle: Rep. Michele Bachmann highlighted the Orwellian thinking of the

Former Denver Post editor Gil Spencer died in New York this morning at the age of 85.