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The Florida Commission on the Status of Women tells The Florida Independent that its “2011 Summary of Florida Laws Affecting Women and Families” report will be revised to include the anti-abortion bills that were absent in a previous incarnation. Kelly Sciba, the executive director of the Florida Commission on the Status of Women, says “the bills in questions were on our interest list as you can see on our website, but were inadvertently left out of the published report when it was compiled, along with CS/HB 1085 Women’s Health dealing with Ovarian Cancer.” “The report has been revised to included the omitted bills and can found on our website,” she says.

The problems of people who owe more than their homes are worth - something the Independent is highlighting in a series that continues today - is starting to

TransCanada was forced by another pumping station leak to shut down the first phase of the Keystone pipeline over the weekend, making it an even dozen times the pipeline has had to be shut down due to a leak in only its first year of operation. TransCanada Corp. has shut down its massive Keystone oil pipeline for the second time in less than a month after detecting a small leak at a pumping station in Kansas, the energy and pipeline giant said

In the abstract, this sounds like a terrible idea, but in this particular case, it might be worthy. Subscription-only Inside The Pentagon reports that Defense

Last month, TWI’s Mary Kane reported that mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were quietly slipping requirements into loan modification agreements that

President Obama was pretty subdued when talking about Iraq last night at his press conference last night. We just saw an election in Iraq that went relatively

Bay Buchanan, whom I interviewed this week about troubled anti-immigration activist Marcus Epstein, has published a fuller account of his problems and a

A brainstorming session between two conservative activists spurred the strategy to convince voters not to trust their legislators on health care.

Government officials say military families and retirees have been confused by an awareness campaign launched by Walgreens as part of a contract dispute the pharmacy is having with Express Scripts, which manages Tricare’s prescription drug benefits. And now Express Scripts is firing back by taking Walgreens to court. Filed Wednesday in U.S.

The United Auto Workers ratified the first new collective bargaining agreement with General Motors after 2009′s managed bankruptcy kept the automaker alive. The deal is good for four years. The Detroit News reports : General Motors Co.

Democratic legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives are expected to introduce a bill today to extend federal unemployment benefits for another year. The Huffington Post reports : “With almost five unemployed Americans for every job opening, too many people remain jobless because of a lack of work, not a lack of wanting to work,” Rep

Waiting lists have continued to grow for programs that help supply life-saving drugs to HIV/AIDS patients who are uninsured and unable to afford their medications. # This month 8,100 people were on waiting lists for AIDS Drug Assistance Programs in 13 states, an increase of more than 2,500 since January

Here’s The New York Times’ contribution to the what-in-the-world-was-this-series-of-CIA-’significant-actions’-disclosed-and-stopped-by Director-Leon-Panetta

The hearings are back underway ... Here’s Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), back in full effect. He wants to know about prosecutions for interrogators, which CIA

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said at the press briefing today that Republicans pushing for hearings on the citizenship of American-born children are

Speaking for the first time since receiving the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama accepted the honor while outlining some of the goals he still hopes to

Manuel Guerra — an undocumented immigrant who supports the DREAM Act, and whose deportation case was recently canceled — has earned the backing of some conservatives in Indiantown, Fla. # The DREAM Act would grant people who entered the U.S

More on that new provision in the intelligence authorization bill pushing disclosure on the efficacy of torture. The measure was proposed by Sen. Kit Bond

The White House program designed to prevent foreclosures by paying banks to alter loans voluntarily isn’t doing nearly enough to keep struggling borrowers in their homes, several powerful Democrats charged Wednesday.

In a statement released Sunday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) became the latest Democrat to try to divorce the party’s health reform

Hey readers! Hope you’re all exercising your constitutional rights and hitting the polls today. While you’re there, keep an eye out for anything out of the

With the health reform debate in recent weeks focused largely on GOP opposition to a government-sponsored insurance plan, the implication has been that