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Things are bad enough in one small-town Ohio fire department, even without Senate Bill 5, the state’s anti-collective-bargaining law that will go in front of

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer arrests a suspect in Virginia (Pic via ice.gov) Pembroke Pines residents who have actively opposed the construction of a privately run immigration detention center in their community now argue they have been kept out of specific agreements between Southwest Ranches officials and their city. Ryann Greenberg, a resident of Pembroke Pines and a member of Residents Against Ranches Detention Center , tells The Florida Independent that at least 100 people online and 300-plus people off-line are organized to block the detention center.

A screenshot of the Ignite brochure (Pic via flfamily.org (.pdf)) The leader of an influential anti-gay, anti-abortion Florida group has issued a new fundraising pitch to help gin up support for the work of its “Ignite an Enduring Cultural Transformation” campaign during the state’s upcoming legislative session.

TVNewser has the email network president Jon Klein sent to producers: I asked the political researchers to dig into the question why couldn’t Obama produce

At around 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 4, Rich Weathers got a call. The Edgewood, Ky., businessman had been a Republican voter and donor for years, so he wasn’t surprised

A concentrated oil burn in the Gulf of Mexico, conducted in May 2010 (Pic by Deepwater Horizon Response, via Flickr) Sightings of a very large sheen of oil in the Gulf of Mexico have had coastal residents and fishermen worried for over a month. But in a statement issued yesterday, the Coast Guard says the sheen is not from BP’s now-capped Macondo well, which caused harm to both Florida’s environment and economy last year. Though the Coast Guard said video footage of BP’s Macondo well shows no new leakage, the company hasn’t been ruled out as a source of the sheen. In its statement, the Coast Guard floats the possibility that oil may be emanating from a riser pipe of the Transocean rig, whose explosion led to last year’s disaster

Greg Sargent spoke with CNN’s president Jonathan Klein about Lou Dobbs, and the demands from some liberal groups that Dobbs be punished for giving airtime and

Florida’s Catholic bishops repeated their plea for Gov. Rick Scott to call off the execution of Manuel Valle, the subject of Scott’s first death warrant . # Valle was convicted of the 1978 killing of a Coral Gables police officer, and first sentenced in 1981

This is from a just-issued FBI press release about a new terrorism indictment against seven men in North Carolina: From roughly November 2006 through at least

We’ve been speculating that Sen. Pat Leahy’s (D-Vt.) proposed truth commission to investigate alleged lawbreaking during the Bush administration may not be

After Andrew Breitbart criticized World Net Daily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah for using his speaking slot at the National Tea Party Convention to raise

Startling requirements in out-dated, but still used paperwork raises questions about how well Treasury is overseeing the centerpiece of Obama’s foreclosure crisis solution.

As senators vote now on the DISCLOSE Act, it’s worth noting that the blogosphere has been alive with activity today -- almost all of which is urging members to

Khaled Al Mutairi, a Kuwaiti seized in Pakistan in 2001 and held at Guantanamo Bay ever since, on Wednesday became the 28th Guantanamo detainee to win his

After plastering one abortion provider’s face and name on “Wanted”-style posters all over Charlotte, N.C., anti-abortion rights activist Philip

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) doesn’t really like this hearing. He says he doesn’t question the chairman’s motivation, which is an elegant locution, and

Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Jacksonville, attacked Gov. Rick Scott Wednesday for signing a piece of legislation that would require all welfare recipients be drug-tested

Just two days ago, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly cautioned reporters not to jump to any conclusions about who won the Afghan presidential election just

El Paso County Democrats joined members of the Colorado Springs LGBT community for a news conference on the steps of Colorado Springs City Hall Monday afternoon to condemn recent hate crimes in the city. According to police reports, on July 3, two male and one female dancer at a local gay night club, along with one male and one female security guard were at a fast-food restaurant at 3 a.m.

Iraq War veteran and former staffer for Sen. Al Franken, Daniel Fanning, announced on Tuesday that he’s adding his name to the growing list of candidates vying for the DFL nomination to take on Rep. Chip Cravaack in 2012.

Amy Tarkanian, chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Party, has announced that her state’s first-in-the-west 2012 presidential nomination caucuses will be held Jan. 14. “I’m extremely pleased to finally have a firm date for a caucus that will greatly improve Nevada’s standing and relevance in terms of national politics,” Tarkanian said.