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The Republican plan to privatize food service in the state prisons will increase the odds of dangerous and costly violence, corrections workers warn. “One of the things you don’t mess with is a person in prison and their food,” said Tom Tylutki, president of the Michigan Corrections Organization, which represents state corrections officers. For years the Michigan Dept

Steve Benen flags some disturbing news out of South Carolina: South Carolina’s more than 236,000 unemployed workers could have to take a drug test in order to

Not all students have the means or good fortune of attending a four-year institution. To that end, community colleges are a place of learning ideal for individuals on tight budgets in search of more academic opportunities. The Obama administration is continuing its pledge to reach out to these higher education institutions in New Mexico with a $2 million grant to three community colleges to focus on green jobs training as part of the the State Energy Sector Partnership Program (SESP), a three year, six-million dollar bundle of funds established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Wikimedia Commons ) GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich today announced campaign chairs and co-chairs for all of Florida’s 67 counties. The Miami Herald reports that GOP state Reps. Michael Bileca and Carlos Trujillo will chair and co-chair (respectively) Gingrich’s campaign committee in Miami-Dade County, and Rep

Florida’s Republican Senate primary has quickly become a contest between the party’s base and its national leadership.

Time is almost up for the Obama administration’s dual-tracked approach to Iran. As the Islamic Republic keeps rejecting the administration’s diplomatic

Conservative groups may still be dominating the outside spending game overall, but it turns out that in the last couple weeks, liberal ones have been competing

Eliminating a political headache for Republicans in next year’s mid-term elections, Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) announced today that he’ll retire at the end of

Gov. Terry Branstad indicated he wants to be a “good host” during the 2012 GOP presidential contest and, therefore, is unlikely to endorse a candidate in the lead-up to the first-in-the-nation caucuses. “I have not ruled out the possibility, but I think it’s probably still unlikely that I’m going to endorse,” Branstad told Scott Conroy of Real Clear Politics .

Republican Senate candidate Greg Sowards told Politico Tuesday that no candidate in the Republican primary would be further to the right than he is. Sowards also said he didn’t believe that Rep.

Reid Wilson breaks the news: Allison Meyers, director of the RNC’s Young Eagles program, was terminated yesterday after reports that the RNC reimbursed a

If Congress does not pass the bill, hundreds of thousands will lose their unemployment benefits and Medicare doctors will take a 21 percent rate cut.

CNN is reporting that a Western source close to the Afghan leadership is saying talks for next week’s runoff election between Hamid Karzai and Abdullah

GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman (Pic by calon, via Flickr) Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman will meet former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich at a Lincoln-Douglas-style debate next Monday, focusing on foreign policy and national security. Gingrich recently made a slew of appearances in Florida, appearing at a town hall meeting at Jacksonville Landing

<p>One of the principle architects of the Rumsfeld Pentagon’s torture apparatus, Defense Department General Counsel William Haynes, is <a

The Los Conchas wildifre has burned 43,000 acres since Sunday, forcing residents of Los Alamos to evacuate Monday, reports the Los Alamos Monitor: County officials issued a mandatory evacuation for Los Alamos Town Site and residents left Monday afternoon. Shelters open at this time are the Santa Claran Resort Center, Cities of Gold Casino and Pojoaque High School. A Type I Incident Management has been ordered and in its latest advisory, the Forest Service said, seven Hotshot crews (Type 1 crews), 12 Type 2 Crews, 7 engines, and 20 aircraft (12 air tankers and 8 helicopters)

At a critical juncture in the Senate’s energy and climate negotiations, the president chose not to push a carbon pricing proposal.