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Potential contender for the 2012 Republican nomination for president Mike Huckabee went on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show last night to talk about his new

As part of an effort to fix a $9.5 million budget shortfall the Flint school board is considering bids from companies interested in taking over transportation, building and grounds maintenance, waste removal and pest control. At a meeting last night school board members signed off on contracts for pest control and waste removal but did not approve a $2.5 million bid for custodial services from FEATS of Portland, Mich., the Flint Journal reports. Board assistant secretary-treasurer Vera Perry said the lower pay rate included in the bids for custodial services – from $15 per hour to $8.25 – were too harsh.

House Speaker Kurt Zellers (R- Maple Grove) told pro-life activists disappointed that Republicans weren’t able to pass bills like a human cloning ban that Gov. Mark Dayton was to blame

Have Illinois legislators read the draft stimulus bill? They might want to: None of the funds provided by this Act may be made available to the State of

Our friends at The Colorado Independent take a look at railroad companies’ sudden interest in political conventions. Two of them, Union Pacific and

At a Saturday barbecue for the Leavenworth County, Kans., Republican Party, former Bush administration lawyer and current secretary of state candidate Kris

Two reports from the Mortgage Bankers Association today -- one mixed, one troubling. First, mortgage loan applications -- measured by the MBA’s purchase

The Christmas-time apprehension after Flight 253 landed in Detroit was more ad hoc and chaotic than the administration has portrayed, according to Dennis Blair.

Former Treasure Secretary Robert Rubin still wields influence in the Obama administration. AARP, Democrats lobby seniors on health care ahead of November

Some of Gov. Terry Branstad’s campaign pledges — to reduce the cost of government by 15 percent, raise family incomes by 25 percent, create 200,000 jobs and have the best schools in the nation — may be mutually exclusive, economists say. Andrew Cannon, a researcher for the non-partisan Iowa Policy Project , said it will be hard to reduce the cost of government by 15 percent without affecting the state’s quality of education, for instance.

A new Quinnipiac University Poll released today shows that Floridians think Gov. Rick Scott’s budget was “unfair to people like them.” The poll also found that most voters back a new controversial law that requires welfare recipients to take a drug test before receiving benefits.

The Senate Banking Committee today approved legislation forcing banks to make credit cards more consumer friendly, but don’t mistake this for a strictly

In a unanimous vote of the Lansing City Council Monday night, council members passed a resolution opposing HB 5039 and urging the state legislature to vote against the bill.

’I’m so proud to be a citizen in this great land that I, for one, call America,’ says Gov. Sarah Palin.

The governor of Alaska was riding a wave of national recognition at the start of this year, stemming from her 2008 vice presidential campaign, and supporters

Toward the end of Thursday’s House debate on credit card reform -- legislation that passed with broad bipartisan support -- Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) took to

Newly released Census data reveal that, as other evidence suggests, the recession has battered some areas harder than others. Census Bureau statistics show that

Earlier this week, I wrote about how the economic crisis had led record-high numbers of Americans to dismiss the threat of global warming. Now Gallup has a

Though none qualify as the “one percent,” at least three of Minnesota’s members of Congress are millionaires, a study by the Center for Responsive Politics released on Tuesday shows . The study averaged the net worth of each member

One day after The American Independent released an analysis of the National Organization for Marriage’s recently reported finances from 2010, which reveal