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The message from the Senate was clear: More screenings, not fewer, are better for women’s health.

A radio version of The Colorado Independent’s story Monday on the Koch brothers influence in environmental politics has now been aired on more than 400 radio stations in more than 30 states. The radio story was produced by Kathleen Ryan for Public News Service.

Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, announced today that is has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Justice to try

DENVER– Depending on whether or not related legal action restarts in US district court here, Colorado lawmakers plan to take up the question of which voters county clerks will be required to mail ballots to in future elections. “We’re batting around a lot of different ideas,” state Representative Crisanta Duran , D-Denver, told the Colorado Independent. “We’ll be looking at where there’s common ground

For his fourth blockbuster appearance on Capitol Hill in 18 months, Gen. David Petraeus pulled off what might have been his most impressive feat yet: saying

The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recently back from brokering Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s acquiescence to a runoff election, is

Something I couldn’t figure out for my piece yesterday on the 2007 memo from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel about CIA interrogations: why

Within moments of Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, it was all over the airwaves: Obama’s pick had claimed that Latina women

Over the weekend, David Kotok of Cumberland Investors, a much-watched CNBC market analyst, put out a very gloomy analysis of the economic impact of the BP

When the serious (Republican) guys (sorry gals) in Congress introduce a bill just so they can vote it down, you have to turn to the funny guys to make sense of it all. That’s the way it was with the debt ceiling this week. Thursday night, Stephen Colbert nailed it hard, and got a laugh to boot

The federal government has asked the federal court in Detroit to drop one charge against a member of a Christian militia arrested in March of 2010.

The Iowa Independent reports that earlier this week, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter to Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.),

Among the many hot-button issues that President Obama weighed in on during his presidential campaign and followed up on in his first week in office, immigration

Something that couldn’t fit into my piece yesterday but bears mentioning: Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East and South Asia,

Gov. Sarah Palin sat for an interview with The Anchorage Daily News in her Wasilla home, where moose chili was simmering in a crock pot. The whole interview

The news today that the Obama administration has arranged for the repatriation of six Yemeni detainees from the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay

I asked Rob Fuller, Lockheed Martin’s chief spokesman for the F-22 jet that it manufactures, what his reaction was to the Senate’s vote to strip funding for the

Republicans are working overtime today to make political hay out of Colorado Senate hopeful Andrew Romanoff’s revelation that the White House suggested three

Congress reporter Mike Lillis reports that with both ends of the political spectrum unhappy with a Senate bill meant to curb the effects of global warming and

In June, new home sales rebounded from their record-low rate to ... the second-lowest rate ever recorded. The Commerce Department announced that home sales

State Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey (Pic via Facebook) State Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, has filed a bill for the upcoming session that would make January 2012 ”Pregnancy Resource Center Month.” Pregnancy resource centers are also referred to as crisis pregnancy centers. Crisis pregnancy centers, or CPCs, are mostly religious centers aimed at dissuading women from having an abortion.