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A municipal ballot initiative has been introduced that would require Denver employers to provide their employees with paid sick days. Denver workers would receive up to nine days of sick leave each year

As the 2012 race in Colorado’s always hotly contested 4th congressional district officially kicked off this week, Republicans in Larimer County, the most populous county in the district, are suffering through another humiliating chapter in the unfolding history of incompetence and corruption that plagued the county party under the recent direction of Larry Carillo. Police issued a felony theft arrest warrant for the former party chairman Tuesday, accusing him of stealing more than $17,000 to pay bills and gambling debts

In a piece released today, former GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty has chosen to support Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination, citing a need for an economic leader to step forward and lead the nation. “Having served as governor of Massachuseets, he turned that state’s budget around from deficit to surplus while simultaneously cutting taxes, but that is not the full measure of what he will bring to the presidency,” Pawlenty wrote of Romney

John Podesta, co-chair of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team, announced today that Obama would extend the restrictions on lobbyists during his

The Reverend Jesse Jackson says the move by Benton Harbor Emergency Financial Manager Joseph Harris is illegal. In an interview with Fox 2 News , Jackson says he will work with residents to take the issue to the U.S.

The National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission, established by Congress to address the growing transportation infrastructure

Two new and apologetic pieces about Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) make a similar claim. The Weekly Standard’s Matt Continetti, who is writing a book about

Politico gets the early read and the early spin on the House Republicans’ alternative budget plan, focusing on the spin. We don’t know what’s in it, but we know

Speculation has been running rampant among pundits and journalists alike about President Obama’s reported desire to nominate Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) as

The heads of Detroit’s automakers might be willing to accept $1 salaries as a condition of a federal bailout, but they won’t commit to capping their total

Sarah Palin’s latest FEC numbers are in, and -- as with all things Palin-related -- it’s big news. As Politico opined in a story last night: In short, for the

<p>In a bucolic field two miles north of Mount Vernon, beside a baseball diamond in Fort Hunt Park, Va., about 20 veterans of a secret World War II

In opposition to President Barack Obama’s Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS), HIV-specific criminal law legislation has popped up in three states in the last two months. Michigan Messenger reported on the NHAS in July. In Nebraska, state lawmakers are debating legislation which would make it a crime for a person who is infected with HIV or Hepatitis to expose law enforcement officials to body fluids.

At noon today, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), from his home on Main Street in East Haddam, officially announced his retirement from Congress at the end of the year.

The International Atomic Energy Agency, after inspecting the recently disclosed nuclear facility at Qom, suspects there may be more: International inspectors

The impact of Alabama’s new immigration law, which requires K-12 schools to check the immigration status of their students, could be felt in several states, including Florida. Sunshine State News reports today that “a number of school districts across Florida have been advised to monitor enrollment numbers for Hispanic migrant families relocating from Alabama after a federal judge upheld that state’s new immigration enforcement law.” The online news outlet adds that “Florida’s Education Estimating Conference said so far they haven’t seen any influx in the counties bordering Alabama or in counties such as Osceola, Hardee and Volusia where migrant families may seek agriculture employment,” and that the “Alabama Department of Education stated that on Oct 3, 5 percent of the state’s Hispanic students didn’t show up for school.” Our sister site The American Independent recently reported that civil rights groups and the U.S. Justice Department sued to stop Alabama’s immigration enforcement law, “passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature in May, from being enforced, as they did in the case of S.B

Everyone remembers that on Aug. 6, 2001, while President George W. Bush was clearing brush in Texas, he received an intelligence brief warning about Al Qaeda’s

In Vienna, United Nations members today signed off on the United Nations political declaration recommending global drug policy for the decade to come. Despite a