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Everglades National Park (Pic by Rodney Cammauf, National Park Service; via army.mil) The governing board of the South Florida Water Management District yesterday voted unanimously to move forward with eight public/private partnership projects to store water in the Northern Everglades. The projects, which are known as dispersed water management, involve enlisting private landowners in solutions to help restore the Everglades and its tributaries. The district describes (.pdf) it simply as “shallow water distributed across parcel landscapes using relatively simple structures.” Several state conservation groups have been vocal advocates of the projects, which they say could provide benefits to both water storage and water quality

Colorado Fourth-District Republican US Rep Cory Gardner is filling his campaign coffers for 2012 as he did in 2010 by leaning heavily on oil-and-gas industry donors . He raked in $370,000 in the quarter that just ended. That’s the most of any candidate for federal office from Colorado and topped his take in previous quarters by roughly $100,000.

After nearly a day’s worth of radio silence from Langley about the suicide bombing at a CIA outpost in eastern Afghanistan, this statement comes from Director

U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen of Minnesota is listed as a member of a controversial corporate and state legislative collaboration called the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), according to recently leaked documents .

A new poll conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health found a majority of Americans prefer that the federal government invest in public health. According to an executive summary (.pdf) of the polling data: A majority (52 percent) of Americans prefer a bigger government providing more services in health, rather than a smaller government providing fewer services in health (37 percent). In addition, six in ten believe that if U.S

Hoping for a big northeastern win Tuesday that would point to a Republican come-back, conservatives instead grapple with an inconclusive end.

It was supposed to be a magical day: the day when, in response to an agreement reached in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Obama

From The Colorado Independent: The Denver Democratic headquarters was vandalized last night, the long bank of windows that fronts the building smashed.

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Immigrants are the key to revitalizing Michigan’s economy, said Gov. Rick Snyder (R) at a New Media Conference at Wayne State University on Monday. The

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Aug. 3, 2009. One of my friends in the small

In the RNC’s latest fundraising appeal, a website called nomorefrankens.com, the group makes a number of claims about the contested 2008 Minnesota Senate race

It’s become conventional wisdom in Washington that beards are a detriment for most politicians on the campaign trail. In 2006, The Hill put it this

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. (Pic via Facebook) Sen

My friend Eli Lake reports for The Washington Times that Republicans on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence intend to question CIA director-designate

Republicans in Ohio, as in several other states, have placed a constitutional amendment before voters that, if passed this November, would block provisions in

The McCain campaign’s decision to effectively concede Michigan to Obama makes no political sense because the GOP nominee enjoys key advantages in the state.