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The New York Daily News reports Gov. David Paterson (D-N.Y.) will announce today his decision to end his re-election campaign amid new controversies. News

Rep. Michele Bachmann’s office told Bloomberg on Tuesday that she wouldn’t be giving interviews this week as she was committed to working in her district. Bachmann’s office made the statement, however, while the Sixth District Republican was on a visit to Hawaii to raise money for Republicans and ahead of a weekend trip to Montana to campaign for her friend Rep

Isabella County Circuit Court Judge Paul Chamberlain has issued an injunction to stop the Central Michigan University Faculty Association strike. WKAR radio reported the news on its Facebook page: From the Michigan Public Radio Network’s Amy Robinson in Mt

After a fiasco during what should have been a friendly radio interview , Florida Senate President and U.S. Senate candidate Mike Haridopolos issued a statement saying he supports the thrust of Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan, but that “it must be amended to provided greater protections for Seniors.” # His spokes-folks went on to clarify further, telling The Miami Herald that he would vote against the plan in its current form

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock today announced appointments to the 2011 Denver Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Commission. The Commission is comprised of 22 sitting commissioners tasked with providing the mayor with insight and communication with the GLBT community in Denver. “One of my core values is inclusiveness,” Mayor Hancock said in a press release.

Byrd’s passing means a steeper climb for financial regulatory reform. McCain disagrees with Jan Brewer’s claim that most people crossing from Mexico to the

Before the Florida Senate’s final passage of a bill that requires parental notification if a minor is seeking an abortion, state Sen. Alan Hays, R-Umatilla, defended a provision in the bill that creates tighter restrictions on judicial bypasses to notification. Hays told the legislature the measure is aimed at adults who are “counseling minors to have abortions.” # Hays, the bill’s sponsor, insisted that minors seeking an abortion are not acting alone

Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal said Thursday the legislative session — scheduled to adjourn April 29 — could continue for “weeks, months” as Republicans and Democrats struggle to agree on budgeting issues.

Latinos for Reform released two ads today with a very different message from many of the ads aimed at Latino voters this political season: Its ads urge Latinos

If Bruce Riedel, chairman of the Obama administration’s Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy review, has a bottom line as to the Pakistani Inter-Services

Large majorities of the Alabama legislature approved a new immigration-enforcement law Thursday. The law is specifically modeled after Arizona’s notorious

On Friday, Sheila Bair -- the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which performs banking oversight and consumer protection as well as

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick (Pic by MilitaryHealth, via Flickr) Kaiser Health News reports that states all over the country, including Florida, are moving toward Medicaid managed care and are looking “to private health plans for help closing budget gaps.” According to Kaiser : State officials expect the trend to continue in the state-federal program for the poor, according to a survey released today by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. Officials in 27 states (of 45 responding) reported that they expect to lean more heavily on managed care in the near future. Ten states, including California, Florida and Texas reported that they have specific plans to expand managed care to new geographic areas or groups of patients, such as the elderly

Senator Michael Bennet today signed on as a co-sponsor of a bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.

It’s official: Sen. John McCain has committed resources to defend his home state of Arizona. In the wake of a slew of polls that show the race in the Grand

Former Speaker of the U.S. House Newt Gingrich has officially thrown his hat into the presidential ring. Gingrich, a Georgia resident, made the announcement Wednesday afternoon.

Gov. Rick Scott (left) with Florida Senate President-Designate Don Gaetz, R-Destin (Pic via flgov.com) The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports today that an immigration enforcement bill is one of several items Gov. Rick Scott has on his “controversial legislative agenda.” The Sentinel adds that during the 2011 legislative session, “Scott and the House wanted to require companies to use the federal E-Verify program to check employees’ immigration status and require cops to check the legal status of anyone being investigated for a crime.” Scott recently said at RedState Gathering 2011, an event for conservative politicians and organizations, that he “tried to get an bill passed last year.