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A new report shows the state’s general fund took in $5.8 billion in the fiscal year that ended in July, $319.8 million or 5.8 percent more than in the previous fiscal year. The report from the non-partisan Legislative Services Agency notes that total is $45.5 million more than projected by the Revenue Estimating Conference for fiscal year 2011. The REC in March estimated a similar increase in general fund revenue for the current fiscal year: $309.6 million, pushing total revenues from $5.8 billion to $6.12 billion

A round-up report for 2011 found that last year was one of the worst for reproductive health and reproductive rights across the country. The Guttmacher Institute reports that a record-setting “1,100 reproductive health and rights-related provisions” were introduced by state legislators last year

Last week, my piece on the Federal Election Commission noted that despite the fact that three of the six members of the commission were serving well beyond

The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein writes today that an energy bill with a cap on carbon emissions, even a scaled-down cap on the power sector, is dead. Klein

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to begin sampling Saginaw Township’s West Michigan Park next week to determine how much dioxin was deposited in the Tittabawassee floodplain during recent flooding. Dioxin, a highly toxic and carcinogenic byproduct of combustion and chemical manufacturing, has spread from Dow Chemical’s Midland plant 52 miles downstream through the Tittabawassee and Saginaw Rivers and into Lake Huron.

Andrew Breitbart (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) Tea party favorite Andrew Breitbart and ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief are scheduled to speak at a breakfast hosted by Americans for Prosperity’s Florida chapter this Friday in Orlando. Breibart will also be taking part in a panel discussion with several Florida officials during Presidency 5, organized by the Republican Party of Florida. “Andrew Breitbart has undeniably proven the importance online activism and investigative journalism plays in influencing narratives in the media,” said Americans for Prosperity’s Slade O’Brien in a press release

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In the annual St. Cloud State University Survey , 55 percent of Minnesotans surveyed say the state is on the wrong track, down one percent from last year.

Ben Bernanke is no Oracle at Delphi, but traders still act like all this banking stuff is very opaque.

It’s clear now: When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) took to a podium just before 3 p.m. yesterday to announce a bicameral deal on the $789 billion

Why did Blackwater/Paravant’s personnel carry weapons in Afghanistan for personal use, anyway? Brian McCracken, the former Paravant vice president, conceded

It looks like the renewable energy standard is going to get a high-profile, bipartisan boost. Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Sam Brownback (R-Kans.) are

Today, two companies -- ADP, a payroll processor, and Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an outplacement consultancy -- both reported employment numbers that

John Yoo should be fired, disbarred and prosecuted for war crimes, according to anti-war activists who greeted the University of California at Berkeley law

In response to renewed efforts to pass same-sex marriage in Maryland through legislation in 2012, a new website dedicated to maintaining marriage rights for

A report published by the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank sees continued high commodity prices and, thus, continued high land values at least for the near term. … As crop prices pushed toward record highs in 2011, farmland values have followed.

Via HotAir, which pitches it as a marine go nuclear on Democrat over Obamacare, here’s a video making the rounds on the right: David Hedrick, a member of the

Remember the good-old-days (like a month ago) when leading economists were pushing the federal government to boost the economy with $200 - $300 billion in new

According to diplomats interviewed by The New York Times, Iran isn’t actually sending mixed messages on the deal reached in Vienna to process Iranian uranium

This morning, the Conference Board, a nonprofit economic research group, said that its leading economic index -- a measure of how business might act in the

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says that he supports allowing the children of undocumented residents to attend colleges at an in-state tuition rate