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For the first time since 1,300 workers at American Crystal Sugar were locked out on Aug. 1, the company and union representatives will meet Thursday.

The Roman Catholic Bishops of New Mexico support the current driver’s license law allowing foreign nationals to obtain a driver’s license with New Mexico residency, and oppose Gov.

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has been on a media blitz in the wake a federal court’s decision to strike down the federal health care reform law’s “individual mandate” that people obtain insurance or face penalties. # The court upheld the other provisions of the law, but Bondi said the mandate was essential to the overall effort

With last week’s announcement that the Obama administration is offering states the opportunity to opt out of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements in

At a luncheon hosted by The American Spectator and Americans for Tax Reform, South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster, a Republican, laid out the strategy

Immigrant rights activists are condemning Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal for appointing Phil Kent, spokesperson for the restrictionist group Americans for Immigration

“It’s time to make tough choices and put politics aside,” Obama said to 70 attendees in a Des Moines backyard chat.

State Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey (Pic via Facebook) State Sen

In a recent interview former Dept. of Natural Resources Director Rebecca Humphries compared the ‘Pure Michigan’ marketing campaign to “putting pretty paint on a house that is structurally unstable.” In an interview with the Center for Michigan’s Bridge Magazine , Humphries, who led the DNR from 2006-2010, predicted that cuts to conservation programs could come back to haunt Michigan

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The ad wars in the 8th Congressional District continued this weekend with the announcement that Americans United for Change plans to spend “five figures” on a television ad campaign targeting four members of the House who voted for Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal. The ad buy targets Rep

This is kind of remarkable. In an interview with ABC’s Top Line, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele pretty overtly sought to align the GOP

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced a new funding opportunity for community health centers across the country. According to an agency press release : The U.S

State Sen. Nan Rich, D-Sunrise, followed through on her plan to file an amendment that would remove language in Florida’s Medicaid bill that allows Medicaid service providers to opt out of providing family planning services on “moral or religious grounds,” but the amendment failed yesterday during one of the final motions on the bill.

Republican New York Senator James Alesi told rally-goers at the New York State Capitol that he is committed to passing same-sex marriage into law this session.

In yet another case that questions the power of federal courts to rein in the government’s executive branch, the U.S. Circuit Court in Washington, D.C., on

Reps. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) and Steve Pearce (R-NM) voted against the House resolution authorizing the use of force in Libya, while Rep.

The Obama administration has spent all day talking up the President’s address to Congress, describing it as Reaganesque, as Politico put it. Here are some

At a book signing in downtown Minneapolis on Tuesday, presidential candidate Newt Gingrich found himself covered in glitter.

The National Resources Defense Council responds to the most recent spill of tar sands oil — from the very pipeline that the proposed Keystone XL line will connect to — and point out that this is just the latest in a long line of spills from a line that is less than a year old. Over the last year we’ve had many recent indications of the risks of tar sands diluted bitumen pipelines – an 840,000 gallon spill in Michigan, a 250,000 gallon spill outside Chicago, a 1.3 million gallon spill in Alberta, as well as our recent report examining the safety of tar sands pipelines . On May 7 , the Keystone tar sands pipeline provided yet another warning when it spilled approximately 21,000 gallons of crude in North Dakota. This is its eleventh and most significant spill.

Missed this over the long holiday weekend, but The Washington Post on Friday published a biting op-ed from Robert Kennedy Jr. in which the prominent

To no one’s surprise, a bill that would force the Obama administration to make a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline by Nov. 1 passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep