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Florida’s unemployment rate remained flat last month as the national economy hit what state economist Rebecca Rust called a “soft spot” brought on by rising gas prices and natural disasters. # Employment rates actually fell across the state, but the statistical measure of unemployment remained unchanged due to seasonal adjustments, which are intend to allow number crunchers to get a read on economic trends that aren’t obscured by events that typically happen in June, such as layoffs in education and agriculture. # Gov.

Following her statement late Friday indicating she’s open to a public option compromise, we’ve officially moved Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) from the Likely

In Colorado, nearly all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students polled this year by national anti-bullying organization GSLEN said they regularly heard homophobic remarks and slurs at their schools. Half of them reported being pushed and shoved around for being queer. And nearly a third of them said they were kicked or punched or hit

Remember that WorldNetDaily story about how President Obama’s Wikipedia page had been scrubbed of any mention of the well-publicized concerns surrounding

Former Gov.

After the failure to defund Planned Parenthood on a federal level last week, a new trend is emerging: states attempting to strip family planning funding from

With Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) siding again with the Republicans -- none of whom crossed over to vote for cloture to start debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s

Michigan Democrats and Republicans reached a settlement Monday in a lawsuit charging that the Republican Party planned to illegally use lists of foreclosed

Democratic donors and operatives are wasting no time in meeting to hash out what went wrong in 2010 and what the strategy for fundraising should be moving

When it comes to credit cards, there’s almost always something to be watching out for. At Creditslips, Adam Levitin notes that interest rates on most low-rate

The GOP could turn to the Supreme Court to repeal HCR. Insurance companies claim they don’t have to cover children with pre-existing conditions. DeMint:

State Sen. Arthenia Joyner, D-Tampa (Pic by Minority Office, via flsenate.gov) State Sen

Federal prosecutions of undocumented immigrants have jumped this spring, flooding courtrooms in border states, according to a Syracuse University study released

As TWI’s Mary Kane has demonstrated in previous reporting, when a bank forecloses on a delinquent mortgage and evicts the homeowner, it can often be

Planned Parenthood has sent a petition to Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration, warning that a provision in the state’s Medicaid overhaul plan that allows providers to not offer family planning services “due to an objection on moral or religious grounds” could restrict access to a federally required service. # During this past legislative session, state legislators included the opt-out provision in its Medicaid plan at the request of Catholic Services

As battles over anti-union bills continue in Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin, Ohio may be the first one to actually pass legislation that limits collective bargaining rights for public employee unions. The Ohio Senate narrowly approved such a bill on Wednesday. It includes changes unveiled by its Republican authors earlier this week that reinstate collective-bargaining powers for the state’s more than 300,000 firefighters, police officers, teachers and other public workers, but only on the issues of wages, hours and certain terms and conditions

By now you’ve probably seen the ghastly video, shot on a camera phone, of Taliban thugs flogging a teenage woman in Pakistan’s Swat valley for the simple act of