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It was announced Wednesday that Colorado is one nine states to be eligible to apply for the third round of Race to the Top funds to augment state local funding for Colorado schools. “Today’s announcement is good news – potentially even very good news – for Colorado,” Gov

This will shock only those who’ve never had to haggle with an insurance company, but a former employee of an insurance giant gave damning testimony yesterday

The Interior Department just sent over its statement reacting to a judge’s decision today to uphold a Bush-era rule making it easier for mining companies to

An HIV-positive 30-year-old resident of Minnesota has been convicted by a jury of attempted first degree assault for allegedly failing to use a condom during sex. United Press International reports that while the jury believed the man had disclosed his HIV-positive status to his partner, it was obligated to find him guilty of the attempted assault charge. The man’s attorney has said he will challenge the guilty verdict.

On national security issues, Kagan is something of a blank slate -- but her stance on executive power offers a window into her views.

Here’s an interesting response from Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa), senior Republican on the Finance Committee, when asked by a reporter this morning whether

For House Democrats, who left Washington last week without acting on legislation to expand White House spying powers, Attorney General Michael Mukasey has a

The Food Research and Action Center released a report (pdf) Thursday on rates of food hardship over the year 2010, finding that 28.3 percent of New Mexico

It used to be that answering a question posed by one of Iowa’s lesser known publications following a small town event held little danger of negative national attention. Tim Pawlenty is learning that is no longer the case. On Wednesday, The Iowa Independent highlighted an brief exchange in the town of Boone between Pawlenty and Douglas Burns of the Carroll Daily Times Herald .

Congress’s sweeping probe into performance enhancing drug use in baseball now seems more like a public feud between Roger Clemens and his ex-personal trainer

As mentioned in the previous post, Steve Biddle of the Council on Foreign Relations recently returned from helping shape Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s 60-day review

Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) is calling the Republicans out: The Senate plans to give them the opportunity to vote for or filibuster the financial regulatory

The House Financial Services Committee this morning passed legislation to create a new agency designed to protect consumers from tricks and traps in the banking

Through its legislative influence and political connections, the Palmetto Family Council has been able to wield power in South Carolina when it comes to sex education and other social-issue policies. On the national level, that power has translated into federal funding for social-policy-related grants and, potentially, some sway in the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.

Recent information released from the U.S. Census Bureau reports that Florida had the third highest percentage of residents without insurance in 2010

A new poll from the Pew Research Center finds that 28 percent of Americans believe that there’s been too little coverage of allegations that President Obama

The opinion pages of the Star Tribune have become embroiled in a war of words over efforts to “cure” gays and lesbians of their homosexuality. Last week, the Rev. James Livingston, a priest in the Archdiocese of St

A new study published in the September issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology journal reveals that the proportion of practicing obstetrician-gynecologists

A statewide organization of political activists typically mobilized to protect individual over corporate interests wants to know why Gov.

Conservative bloggers were abuzz over the weekend over a leaked memo that appeared to show President Obama has decided to send all Guantanamo Bay detainees to

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee gleefully sends along news that Rep. Parker Griffith’s (R-Ala.) staff has resigned en masse, rebelling against