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About 250 southwest Broward residents attended a Saturday meeting in the city of Pembroke Pines to tell local and federal officials, as well as prison industry executives, that they don’t want an immigration detention center built in their area. Worried about security, property values and traffic control, residents booed and interrupted Jeff Nelson, mayor of the town of Southwest Ranches, when he offered details about the detention facility and the lot where it would be built. Residents of Pembroke Pines and the town of Southwest Ranches have voiced opposition to the federally funded and privately managed detention center since Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced it had chosen the Southwest Ranches/Corrections Corporation of America proposal in June

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The seven-year-old old-line biweekly conservative magazine, which has been seeking a financial angel for a while, is finally buckling and going monthly. The

Last week a coalition of civil rights and reproductive rights advocates filed a lawsuit against the state of North Carolina’s law requiring abortion providers to show women an ultrasound and describe the images in detail four hours before having an abortion, even if the woman does not want to see the images. According to a press release , the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of North Carolina Legal Foundation, Planned Parenthood Health Systems, Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina and the Center for Reproductive Rights allege that “the new law violates the rights of health care providers and women seeking abortions.” Gov. Bev Perdue vetoed the legislation when it reached her desk, but the state Legislature was able to override her veto.

A number of freshman Republican governors were swept into office last November and all of them have seen dramatic drops in public support in the first part of their terms. But Gov. Rick Snyder leads them all in the magnitude of that drop in public support.

Ask and you shall receive. In response to Meg Whitman’s ad that features Bill Clinton accusing Jerry Brown of inaccurately stating his tax record (and my blog

Tuesday is election day, an opportunity for every citizen to make his or her voice heard.

“Incentives quickly become penalties for those who can’t meet the requirements,” said Sue Nelson, vice president for federal advocacy at the American Heart Association.

Now that we’re past Labor Day, a number of candidates have started spending big money on ad buys selling their biographies and touting their accomplishments. In

Congress has until Friday at midnight to pass 12 appropriations bills for fiscal year 2012, as well as stopgap spending legislation to keep the government

Today the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that you can’t sue a manufacturer for a defective medical device if the Food and Drug Administration has already approved

Today the Republican presidential ticket went its separate ways as Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin split up for the first time since Palin became the

The health reform debate has consumed Congress more than any issue in recent memory. And no one held more influence in that debate than these ten individuals.

The last time I heard Gen. David Petraeus, commander of all U.S. forces in the Middle East and South Asia, talk about Afghanistan, he was endorsing the Karzai

Confirming that there are already 2,100 open cases of mortgage fraud that the FBI is investigating, Attorney General Eric Holder said today that he plans to

Gallup’s annual, open-ended poll of the most admired Americans finds President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on top. Obama, whom 30

Stories like these, whenever they surface, are bad news for mainstream conservatives trying to use this energy in a less insane manner. A group that calls

While a cooperative agreement between the U.S. departments of agriculture and labor will provide some opportunities for rural workers, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said by phone Thursday that the effort won’t necessarily be a replacement for Iowa Workforce Development offices scheduled for closure

After watching businesses in their neighboring states profit for years, businesspeople and officials along the Mexico-New Mexico border impressed it upon their beltway representatives that they, too, finally wanted to cash in on what has not been coming their way. Meaning: extend the traveling distance into which Mexican nationals can penetrate New Mexico, so that they can bring their cash to cities like Las Cruces, Lordsburg, and Deming. In response, Senators Tom Udall and Jeff Bingaman have proposed legislation — the Southern New Mexico Economic Development Act — asking for an extension of the 25-mile zone in which Mexican citizens can travel into New Mexico to shop, to conduct business, to visit family and friends to 75 miles.

To much fanfare, the Obama administration a year ago launched a $75 billion program designed to prevent foreclosures by providing financial incentives to