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The Scrabble Club plans to honor Blagojevich at a banquet to be held “between the time he’s impeached and the time when he goes to jail.”

A federal appeals court has upheld a race-based admission process employed by the University of Texas at Austin, striking down a request for a rehearing by two

The New York Times’ lead editorial today is a powerful indictment of the Obama administration’s continuation of Bush-era efforts to conceal the facts of

Steve Terrell of the Santa Fe New Mexican checked to see how the sale of the state jet — the one Gov. Susana Martinez made a big issue to sell the state jet in her campaign , calling it the “ultimate symbol of waste and excess.” However, the jet still hasn’t been sold at $2.35 million less than what the state paid for it and it costs about $400,000 a year to fuel and maintain.

With unemployment in Florida remaining at over 10 percent, members of the Congressional Black Caucus who have said job creation is a priority will host several job fairs in Miami-Dade this week. # Rep.

Some lower-level Democratic consultants have launched what I think is the first anti-Tea Party campaign at TheTeaPartyIsOver.org. There’s not much at the

Despite growing public support for a government-backed insurance option to compete with private insurers, a Senate panel on Tuesday twice beat back Democratic efforts to create such a plan.

Budget negotiators from the Florida House and Senate agreed to a plan that would privatize state prisons in an 18-county region that includes the southern part of the state — the entire area below a line from Manatee County in the west to Indian River County in the east. # Under the proposal, the Department of Corrections could either award the entire region to a single company, or could divide the region into smaller pieces. The deal would have to be approved by the Joint Legislative Budget Commission

As the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) works to catch up on a backlog of old spill enforcement cases dating back several years, the method by which the state regulatory agency publicizes any fines that are levied against operators has become a topic of conversation for conservation groups tracking the industry. An informal survey of environmental watchdog groups conducted by the Colorado Independent found that opinions vary on the degree of transparency on spill enforcement cases provided by Colorado regulators. The Garden Gulch spill icefall.

The American Independent has long reported on inconsistencies in federal acknowledgment of marijuana’s medical benefits. These came to a head in March, when

During a March 2009 visit to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave an interview to

Federal strategies for tackling climate change are doomed to fail without concerted efforts to keep Americans out of their cars -- efforts that will necessarily include a greater emphasis on public transit, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told Senate lawmakers Tuesday.

The Watertown Daily Times, the big paper in the sprawling 23rd district of New York, today endorses GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava for the special election.

Well that just about does it for climate legislation. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tells CongressDaily (subs. req’d) that he’ll vote against the climate bill

At Friday’s Defending the American Dream summit hosted by Americans for Prosperity (AFP) in Washington, D.C., not only is David Koch not the proverbial

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The House Republican leadership has sent a letter to the White House asserting that it’s answered the call for new stimulus ideas with a tax cut plan -- that’s

From the brand-new Pew poll of international attitudes (PDF), just released half an hour ago: Among Muslim publics – except in Indonesia where Obama lived

In addition to allowing previously negotiated union contracts to be voided, Michigan’s new Emergency Manager law gives appointees the authority to privatize police services and jails. Indeed, voiding labor contracts and outsourcing government services is a key aspect of how they are expected to balance the budgets of financially stressed towns

Robert Reich has a good column onwhy deficit hawks are killing the recovery. Consumer spending is 70 percent of the American economy, so if consumers

President Obama pitched his American Jobs Act before a joint session of Congress Thursday evening, pleading his case with proposals clearly designed to win bipartisan approval and demanding action with tough campaign-style rhetoric. The nature of the talk, a desperate soft and hard sell, underlined the fact that Americans are stuck hoping the most frustratingly partisan government in modern history can summon the wherewithal to finally address the job-killing recession that has plagued the country for years and that shows no sign of letting up anytime soon.