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Paul Rolly reports on Sarah Palin’s trip to Utah, who burned hairdresser Rhonda Halliday by not paying for all of her services. Halliday was the last one out

Obama ran on a platform to enact the most sweeping health care overhaul in decades, and much of his focus in his inaugural year has been just that. Although

Colorado lawmakers staring down an historic recession budget deficit last year passed legislation requiring Amazon.com to finally begin collecting sales taxes in the state. It didn’t go so well. Amazon is still doing business here tax free.

Immigration and human rights experts say that no other developed country has passed an immigration law as stringent as Alabama’s. Although pieces of the law

For the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the battle to restrict marriage to straight couples has often been waged at the same pace as the battle to

Voters around the state, from Anchorage shopkeepers to political insiders, say Sarah Palin has been re-branded, both in message and style, for the national arena. What has the McCain campaign wrought?

Yesterday afternoon, Kenneth Feinberg, who takes over as independent administrator of BP’s $20 billion oil spill compensation fund, briefed reporters on how the

New details have emerged on Louisiana’s $142.4 million literacy grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The program aims to expand child reading and

Iowa’s public universities are experiencing record enrollments but are being funded in real dollars at the same level as they were 30 years ago. In fact, no area of state government has taken more hits in funding over the past 10 years than Iowa’s Regent universities, according to the Legislative Services Agency. The universities made up most of the cuts through efficiency measures — staff and faculty reduction, closing programs, reducing janitorial services — but average tuition increases have been increasing while nationally they have declined

President Obama signed the 2010 defense appropriations bill into law this morning, following a brief bit of legislative theater by Republicans who wanted to

This morning, a little, wonky blog post is creating a lot of controversy. Economics of Contempt writes: Here’s a scary thought: Let’s say the European

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota (Pic via Facebook) In a recently filed court document, a one-time business partner of Rep.

Yesterday, I wrote about the TANF Emergency Fund, or TEF, a stimulus program that funded job-subsidy programs, leading to the employment of 240,000 previously

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Democratic state Rep. Tim Melton of Auburn Hills has decided to leave office and move to California to work for Michelle Rhee’s education reform group

A new study by a U.S. Forest Service researcher found that the application of hydrofracking wastewater to a forest in West Virginia did enormous damage to the forest ecosystem, killing all ground plants and many trees. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility reports on the study’s findings: She looked at the effects of land application of fracking fluids on a quarter-acre section of the Fernow Experimental Forest within the Monongahela National Forest

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You can’t be a conservative today unless you’re taking the hammer and tongs to Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.). The Fox News All-Stars (I always expect them to turn

Doug Hoffman, he failed Conservative Party candidate in the NY-23 special election is clearly relishing the surprise twist in his election -- errors in the

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla

Republican lawyer Barbara Comstock, a candidate for a swing House of Delegates seat in northern Virginia, is holding a fundraiser tomorrow in Washington with a