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Officials in the Martinez administration say they are considering cutting taxes on small business gross receipts and corporate income as a means of creating jobs in the state. The tax on gross receipts averages at about 7 percent throughout the state. One proposal being considered would eliminate gross receipt taxes for business with a tax liability under $200 a month, which could benefit about 40,000 businesses in the state

A television ad from Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, running statewide on radio and the FOX News Channel, erroneously claims the Environmental Protection Agency wants to regulate methane from cattle and dust from farming activities. The ad features a number of farmers, one of which says the EPA wants to regulate methane coming from cattle. “For thousands of years, 60 million buffalo roamed these prairies in Iowa,” one farmer says.

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Sen. Carte Goodwin (D-W.Va.) was sworn in about half an hour ago by Vice President Biden. At 36, he is the youngest member of Senate. The late Sen. Robert Byrd

As Congress and the White House joust over the proposed expansion of offshore drilling for oil and gas, the debate has hinged on 68 million acres where the

Back on March 31, a new neoconservative think tank called the Foreign Policy Initiative launched with a conference on the subject of Afghanistan: Planning for

While the Obama administration deals with massive protests, including thousands of people surrounding the White House earlier this week, the State Department is apparently considering the possibility of rerouting the pipeline around the most environmentally sensitive areas. Reuters reports : The State Department is considering rerouting TransCanada Corp.’s proposed $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline to avoid ecologically sensitive areas of Nebraska, a U.S

A bill sponsored by Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, to authorize new energy-sector sanctions on Iran

Some senators balked at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s decision to attach the DREAM Act, a measure that would help some students become legal residents, to

The Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute Monday released a study showing that the budget proposed by Governor John Hickenlooper could eliminate about 3600 Colorado jobs. Most of the lost jobs would be in education, the report claims, but it says there will also be lost jobs in mental health, prisons, health care and parks

For those, like former Vice President Dick Cheney, who want to argue that CIA torture worked, a footnote on page six of the 2004 CIA inspector general’s

The anti-abortion National Right to Life Committee last week spoke out in support of a new abortion bill filed by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami

All of the West Virginia Republican lawmakers’ brouhaha over including the so-called Capito Amendment in the state legislature’s compromise bill authorizing a

Travis Pillow, who has been owning the Florida oil spill beat of late at our sister publication The Florida Independent, reported yesterday that Gov. Charlie

The Democrats pushing for comprehensive health care reform this year got a boost yesterday when the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the

The Republican National Committee emails reporters to announce a hefty fundraising haul for June that leaves it with $23.7 million in the bank, a solid amount

Following up on Spencer’s post, I don’t feel too sorry for Jay Bybee or John Yoo, the lead lawyers at the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel who

Here’s a headline that’s a sign of the times: More Workers Needed for NJ Unemployment Claims. The Associated Press story, which ran yesterday, goes on to

Immigrants’ advocates have been complaining for months now that the Obama administration is cracking down hard on illegal immigration while doing nothing to

Terry McAuliffe, former Democratic National Committee chairman and current Democratic contender for governor of Virginia, tried to pay off Ralph Nader, to keep