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When horticulturist and retired teaching assistant Emma Kinnard had trouble securing water for the children’s garden she coordinates in Benton Harbor she asked the city’s emergency manager, Joe Harris, for help. “He told me that water was the least of his concerns,” she said.

Just out from the office of House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is this statement applauding President Obama’s move to expand offshore oil

The Minnesota AFL-CIO, the state’s labor federation, voted on Monday to oppose a ballot measure that would add a ban on same-sex marriage to the Minnesota Constitution. The vote of the general board was unanimous, and the AFF-CIO is the first organization in the labor movement in Minnesota to come out against the amendment, which will be on the ballot in 2012

Michael Cohen brings out a speech I tried and failed to YouTube: Ted Kennedy’s September 2002 warning against invading Iraq. The whole thing is worth reading,

Former Sen. Norm Coleman hosted a fundraiser for Rep. Chip Cravaack on Friday afternoon at the Minneapolis Club, part of Coleman’s increasing support for Cravaack who is seen as vulnerable

State Rep. Rachel Burgin, R-Riverview (Pic by Mark Foley, via myfloridahouse.gov) State Rep. Rachel Burgin, R-Riverview, this week introduced an anti-abortion bill that aims to further restrict third-trimester abortions and to place new restrictions on women’s health clinics

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman met with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday and reiterated his opposition to a settlement freeze.

For the past week, The Road to Serfdom has been the number-one selling book on Amazon.com. Authored by the Austrian émigré economist F.A. Hayek and first

Sen. Mary Landrieu (La.), the moderate Democrat who’s been a loud critic of her party’s plan to create a public insurance option, is warming to the proposal,

The states’ collective budget shortfall is estimated to be $30 billion and rising. Required by law to balance their books, states are cutting social services even as demand is rising. Can Congress come to the rescue?

Three members of he Anoka-Hennepin School Board are up for reelection in 2011, and challengers have filed to run in two of those seats.

The president-elect has raised the expectations for all of us, patriotic expectations, moral expectations, expectations of what it means to be a citizen. But as Obama raises expectations, he must also lower them. There are going to be sacrifices involved. That’s the trick.

Editor Cooper Levey-Baker (Pic by Cliff Roles ) Impact. It’s a word we at The Florida Independent throw around daily behind the scenes, but it’s not an idea we talk about much in public. Sure, it’s featured prominently in our statement of purpose ( to produce “news that impacts public debate and advances the common good” ), but in the daily What Have You Published in the Last 10 Minutes?

Well, it appears I was wrong. Several media outlets reported late Wednesday that unnamed Democratic officials said President-elect Barack Obama will likely tap

Lindsay Graham drives me crackers. Despite being a consistent and often brave enemy of torture, he can also cover up with the best of them. "We’re not

Following up on reports that the nonprofit group, Americans for Job Security, has been avoiding the donor disclosure requirements on its independent

The press conference at the Watergate Hotel opened with a question for the assembled reporters: How many of you have voted already? A majority of the sixty

CQ reports that there may be some changes afoot in the chairmanship of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: Depending on how the Senate’s