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<p>The next round of the hard-fought Democratic presidential nomination race between Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)

Forget what you think you know about school libraries and the librarians in charge of them. The stereotypical book-lined room so quiet the still is deafening has been erased from Van Meter Community Schools, and in its place is a room still with books on the shelves, but lively with conversation as groups of students pore over and discuss applications for a never-ending flow of Internet-driven information.

Here’s Sarah Palin’s original TV ad from her 1996 run for mayor of Wasilla, AK. She looks a little less pitbull, a little less Tina Fey, and a lot more 1980s

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after spending much of 2009 pushing against the Obama administration’s call for a settlement freeze, has proposed a

In spite of a 2009 change to controversial Client Acknowledgement forms used to inform HIV-positive patients of their legal responsibilities in Kalamazoo County, HIV advocates remain seriously concerned about the documents and their use in the county.

Hours after officially throwing his hat into the 2012 presidential contest via Twitter , former U.S.

After an Arizona Republican this week successfully attached a mining rider to a spending bill that would torpedo Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s ban on new uranium mining claims within 1 million acres of the Grand Canyon, Arizona business, sportsmen and conservation groups are once again rallying behind the moratorium. “Secretary Salazar made the right decision to support tourism by protecting the Grand Canyon from uranium mining,” said Jennifer Wesselhoff, president and CEO of the Sedona Chamber of Commerce (pdf) .

President-elect Barack Obama’s choices for top positions in his new administration, such as his chief of staff, are drawing all the attention lately. But in the

The former Speaker of the House bucks the tide somewhat and endorses the GOP candidate in New York’s special election. The statement comes with typical

Last December, after President Obama’s self-imposed deadline for direct, preconditionless negotiations with Iran expired without Iranian receptivity,

Reporters and commentators having been making much of the fact that in the case of Ricci v. DeStefano -- which upheld New Haven’s right to discard the results

Indiana State Rep. Phillip Hinkle has been accused of meeting an 18-year-old man on the website Craigslist. The Indianapolis Star Tribune reports that

Michael Bromwich, head of the Department of the Interior’s newly formed Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM), is planning a

I had been trying all day to get a statement from Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on Iran, and he just released one, going further than any other Republican member of

The American Independent recently reported that the Family Research Council has been trying to raise $1 million to plug a gap in its budget. The deadline to

When Governor Rick Snyder comes to Traverse City this weekend to march in the Cherry Festival parade he is likely to encounter some angry locals. Though he trounced his Democratic opponent in that county by about 24,000 to 5,000 in the 2010 election his popularity has plummeted as he’s pushed to tax pensions, cut school funding and give unelected officials almost total power over local communities