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Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler says he found out about allegations of unpaid wages at a local construction site through The Florida Independent. # “Other than reading your article, no one came to me on this issue. No one from the Housing Authority, nobody from the contractor, subcontractor, general contractor and no employee came, so I’ve seen your article and trying to figure out what happened here,” Seiler says.

Although Iowa’s top Republican donors may point to their recent 2012 recruitment trip and express desire for a presidential candidate more in line with their fiscal conservative values, some of Iowa’s political analysts see the excursion as a response to fear. One such analyst notes that the Hawkeye State’s establishment GOP base is shrinking, and an unsuccessful attempt to bring an additional campaign to the 2012 mix may have caused more harm than good.

Eugene Volokh points out an interesting feature on the website of the Public Advocate for the City of New York: a list of major corporations’ stands on using

The original Deepwater Horizon fire (Pic by Deepwater Horizon Response, via Flickr) A new report issued by The National Academy of Engineering , a government-created nonprofit, concludes that the lack of regulation and ineffective safety management practices that led to BP’s catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have not been fully remedied — leaving communities in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana potentially vulnerable to another oil spill. The blowout and explosion of BP’s Macondo well killed 11 workers and led to the largest oil spill in U.S

The papers yesterday screamed the news as the two stories broke almost simultaneously. In one plot, the internal watchdog at the Securities and Exchange

In the heated race for Colorado Republican Party chair last month, GOP legal counsel Ryan Call won in an unexpectedly lopsided first-round vote. High-profile party figures like Attorney General John Suthers and state Senator Shawn Mitchell said they endorsed Call because he was the kind of down-the-middle conservative the party needed to attract moderate and independent voters. On Wednesday, Call hosted his first major Party function.

For a quick look at where senators stand on the climate and energy bill, take a look at Politico’s whip count. If leadership can get the support of all 33

So a couple months ago I asked David McKiernan, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, what he thought of the idea of arming Afghan tribesman along a Sons of

First appeared September 12, 2008 As the cable news networks parse every word of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s interview with ABC’s Charlie Gibson — with

Something that kind-of-sort-of-not-really-but-close-enough ties into Daphne’s post about Obama and Guantanamo: Rush Holt, the New Jersey Democratic congressman

A pro-industry, anti-environmentalist non-profit first registered in Colorado and now operating out of the Washington, D.C. area is “clearly spending money to influence Montana elections,” an assistant attorney general in that state argued this week. “Voters have a right to know who is speaking in the run-up to the elections with regard to candidates and ballot issues,” Assistant Attorney General Andrew Huff told District Judge Jeffrey Sherlock of Helena on Wednesday, according to the Billings Gazette .

As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prepares to speak to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, TWI is publishing a trove of photographs documenting the summer’s uprising against the disputed election has emerged, thanks to a dedicated network of digital smuggling.

It’s all but official now that Democrats won’t reach 60 votes on today’s cloture vote on the DISCLOSE Act. Fox News reported that Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.)

Treasury Sec. Henry Paulson saved AIG to avoid a brutal restructuring of the credit default swap market.

The Florida Water Coalition today sent letters to the state’s congressional delegation, urging them to support water pollution limits for Florida, which have been opposed by every major industrial and agricultural group in Florida. According to the letter, water pollution in Florida is posing “a serious health threat” to humans and wildlife alike — and leading to declines in tourism and waterfront real estate. # The letter, which was sent via email, includes several photos of a toxic algal bloom on Southwest Florida’s Caloosahatchee River. A drinking water plant on the river at Olga, which normally serves around 30,000 people, is currently shut down due to the contamination, which, like many algal blooms plaguing Florida waterways, is a result of fertilizer, manure and sewage pollution.

Police could remove children from their parents only if they face an imminent risk of serious harm or with a court order, according to a bill under consideration in the state Senate. The legislation, sponsored by Sen.

There’s more bad news for water watchers in the Rocky Mountain West, where record snowpack from last winter has led to a dangerous runoff in some places, including Colorado’s Western Slope. The bad news is this season is apparently a statistical blip in a 30-year historical decline in Rocky Mountain snowpack, which provide between 60 and 80 percent of the water supply for the 70 million people living in the western United States.

A constitutional amendment that would bar gays and lesbians from marrying in Minnesota passed the House Ways and Means Committee Wednesday night after brief testimony. The bill now heads to the House Rules Committee and then a House floor vote. A companion bill in the Senate is awaiting a hearing on Friday in the Senate Rules Committee, which has the power to send that bill to the Senate floor.