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This morning, the Pasco County Board of Commissioners met to discuss the landfill application of Angelo’s Aggregates — a controversial proposal that was denied in the past and could damage environmentally sensitive lands.

Rep. David River, R-Miami (Pic via davidrivera.org) Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel sat down with the St. Petersburg Times yesterday to discuss the Democratic fight to take back the House in 2012

Colorado US Senator Michael Bennet seems to love his job as much as he hates the senate . That is, he seems to relish the opportunity to make change that matters as much as he reviles the fact that senate rules and procedures and politics work against anyone making any kind of change at all

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The deal struck by President Obama and the Republican leaders of the U.S. House and Senate protects against cuts for those currently receiving unemployment benefits but it all but ensures that there will not be another extension of those benefits at the end of the year.

Patrick O’Connor reports on a new hazing tactic by House Republicans in which they wait for vulnerable freshman Democrats to take the floor, then beat them up

Coloradans blame market speculation and oil companies for high gas prices, and the vast majority say the best way to bring prices down is to crackdown on market manipulation, according to a poll released Tuesday. The Checks and Balances Project commissioned Colorado pollster Chris Keating to conduct research that shows that 79 percent of Coloradans favor a crackdown on oil price speculation and market manipulation to reduce gas prices. The survey showed 77 percent of Colorado voters think reducing oil consumption through efficiency would also be an effective way to reduce prices.

Sen. Barack Obama’s vote was recorded, broadcast, reported and blogged in real time. His campaign still turned the footage into one of the fastest ads of this

I’m just getting to President Bush’s What Sadrist Intifada? speech from yesterday. It’s predictably stupid. (Since the surge began, business registrations

The Guttmacher Institute on Tuesday launched its first animated short film, summarizing information about women in America who have abortions -- information the

Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert might be ready to flex the muscles of his newly established Super PAC, and he seems willing to begin the work-out in Iowa. On The Colbert Report Monday night, the comedian told other potential PACs hoping to back Texas Gov. Rick Perry to back off, “I saw him first.” According to Colbert, he will premiere an ad offering in Iowa Wednesday night during news broadcasts in the Des Moines area.

To gaze in one’s own navel: I said earlier I’d be listening to Obama’s Af-Pak speech for answers to four questions, like this was Passover or something. So what

As the fight over Florida pastor Terry Jones’s crusade against Islam carries on in court, at least one barometer has surfaced that provides a sign of just how

DENVER--Here’s retired Real Adm. John Hutson, a recovering Republican. He’s here to declare myself a proud member of the Democratic Party and to endorse Barack

This morning, the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that the United States’ gross domestic product, the largest measure of how much the economy is growing,

Yesterday, I cited a blind quote in a McClatchy story from a Defense Department official. It raised doubts that the force levels anticipated for Kandahar’s

Life Always, a branch of controversial group Heroic Media , unveiled a new ad on Tuesday, this one starring former Planned Parenthood director turned anti-choice activist Abby Johnson.

Swiss bankers are, apparently, less childish than American ones, if equally unprofitable at times.

Minnesota-based big box retailer Target is coming under fire from anti-gay groups for commercials it bought during airing of a teen drama on a Nickelodeon offshoot. Caton’s organization, the Florida Family Association, is an affiliate of the American Family Association, a group the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled an anti-gay hate group

Inequality looks in the United States more like some developing countries. And, again, there is no natural limit to that. There’s no natural course correction I see. It will take some substantial response in public policy, Yale political scientist Jacob Hacker says.

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Federal Transit Administration Administrator Peter Rogoff are in Arvada today to announce a major funding agreement for the RTD FasTracks lines to Denver International Airport and to Arvada and Wheat Ridge. The grant is expected to be in the range of $1 billion, as first reported in The Colorado Independent in July.

REEL LIFE Director Oliver Stone is a decorated Vietnam vet, yet his movie about George W. Bush conveys little sense of the war in Iraq.