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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.

Orrin Hatch announces he will vote against Elena Kagan’s confirmation. Michael Steele says he doesn’t think we should be fighting in

The Republican National Committee emails reporters President Obama’s comment that the stock market is sort of like a tracking poll in politics and that people

Remember when I reported that the Obama administration and its allies were looking to salve legitimacy concerns in the Afghan presidential election by

Colorado’s coal industry is on fire lately, going after natural gas producers with gusto in the wake of last year’s controversial Clean Air, Clean Jobs Act , which requires Xcel Energy to convert several coal-fired power plants on Colorado’s Front Range over to natural gas or alternative fuel sources such as wind and solar. Gas is touted as burning up to 50 percent cleaner then coal and dramatically reducing carbon dioxide emissions as well as the amount of nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide and mercury spewing into Colorado’s air.

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

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) tepidly endorsed Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan in an op-ed released late yesterday, noting that she did just enough to win my

Republican National Committee spokeswoman Gail Gitcho quickly poured cold water on birther lawyer Orly Taitz’s brag that Michael Steele had accepted her friend

Now that we’ve noted Adolfo Carrion’s interest in the job of secretary of Housing and Urban Development, we should also point out that in the housing world,

Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler garnered national headlines recently when he ordered county clerks in Colorado not to send ballots to registered but inactive voters– and in Colorado that means voters who missed just one election . Detractors called the effort attempted voter suppression and pointed to a host of similar Republican efforts launched nationwide in the wake of the Tea Party-wave election last November that swept Republicans into office across the country. Denver-based Free Speech TV explored the topic this week and asked Colorado Independent reporter John Tomasic, who has reported the story in-depth , to join the discussion.

The law banning depictions of animal cruelty at issue in a Supreme Court argument this morning may not survive, reports Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog. The

There’s a new argument coursing through Washington in the last 48 hours, which lays the blame for the AIG bonus scandal at the feet of Sen. Christopher Dodd

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

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill that authorizes the transfer of 2,400 acres of Arizona federal forest land to the UK and Australia-based mining company, Rio Tinto. In a 235-186 vote this week, the House passed the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2011, which approves the trade of 2,400 acres of federal land for 5,000 acres controlled by the mining company

Rep. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and former Rep

Koch Industries is known to be a major funder of groups associated with the “anti-establishment” Tea Party. But that doesn’t mean the Kansas-based oil and

Earlier today, progressive groups (and some conservatives) were surprised to see the pro-peace/pro-Israel/pro-Palestine American Jewish organization J Street

Discovery News reports on new research published in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy that finds wind speeds will decrease as a result of climate

Former state Rep. Keith Fitzgerald, D-Sarasota (Pic by Meredith Hill, via myfloridahouse.gov) Former state Rep. Keith Fitzgerald is attempting to unseat a three-term incumbent in his bid for Florida’s 13th congressional district seat

It’s almost enough to generate sympathy for Jay Bybee and John Yoo, the two heads the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel in 2002 who signed off on the