At 11th hour, US Congress debates plastic gun ban
Congress is racing toward renewing a 25-year-old prohibition against firearms that can evade metal detectors and X-ray machines, just days before the ban expires. But with 3-D printers increasingly...
View Article>At 11th hour, Congress debates plastic gun ban
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is racing toward renewing a 25-year-old prohibition against firearms that can evade metal detectors and X-ray machines, just days before the ban expires. But with 3-D...
View ArticleAt 11th hour, Congress debates plastic gun ban
Congress is racing toward renewing a 25-year-old prohibition against firearms that can evade metal detectors and X-ray machines, just days before the ban expires. But with 3-D printers increasingly...
View ArticleHands off Californians’ right to pick our reps: Editorial
California has enacted so many really good ideas for political reform in the past few years, the state probably was due for a really bad idea to come along. One has. Gaining traction in the some...
View ArticleHouse Republicans Have 'No Plans' To Shut Down The Government Over Obamacare...
WASHINGTON -- If the U.S. government shuts down again in mid-January, it won't be because House Republicans are demanding the repeal of the president's health care law, in a repeat of the standoff that...
View ArticleCan Democrats Still Win With a Women-Centered Strategy?
Wendy Davis. Alison Lundergan Grimes. Mary Burke. Alyson Schwartz. Michelle Nunn. Natalie Tennet. The Democratic Party is hoping 2014 will be a Year of the Woman—again. As party operatives prepare for...
View ArticleRecent editorials published in Nebraska newspapers
Omaha World-Herald. Dec. 2, 2013. Husker Nation moves forward This past weekend's events in Husker Nation are reminiscent of a large, loyal, closely knit family getting together for Thanksgiving. They...
View ArticleWoodall To Chair Oversight and Government Reform Committee Field Hearing...
(Source: Robert Woodall) U.S. Representative Rob Woodall and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (OGR) will be hosting a field hearing this Monday, November 25, 2013, at 10 a.m. in...
View ArticleBrown heckled over fracking
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown, who championed environmental causes when he was governor before and has made global warming a focus of his administration now, has been targeted by an increasingly vocal...
View ArticleWhite House returns to Obamacare sales mode
President Barack Obama will launch a coordinated campaign Tuesday by the White House, congressional Democrats and their outside allies to return attention to why the Affordable Care Act passed in the...
View ArticlePaleologos: Gov front-runners seek 2nd chances
With Thanksgiving’s football and family political battles behind us, it’s time to sample the early fixings of the candidates for governor in 2014. It may appear a long way out, but it is now or never...
View ArticleGov front-runners seek 2nd chances
With Thanksgiving’s football and family political battles behind us, it’s time to sample the early fixings of the candidates for governor in 2014. It may appear a long way out, but it is now or never...
View ArticleMorning Memo: NC bombarded with political TV ads
If it seems like an election year when you watch TV these days, don’t worry, you’re not hallucinating. A recent analysis of spending on political advertising about the federal health care law finds...
View ArticleTukur - It's Political Secession for PDP Govs to Walk Out On Jonathan
[This Day]The National chairman of the Peoples...
View ArticleSuccessor candidates to Sen. Evie Hudak both say they're center-left
Sen. Evie Hudak. (Aaron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post) The resignation of Democratic Sen. Evie Hudak, who left her seat last week in an effort to stave off a special recall election, has left a committee...
View ArticleBoth Parties Battle Long Odds in Quest to Capture New Majorities
The 2014 elections are now 11 months away, but the political scene has already undergone dramatic changes just in the past three months. Republicans went into a political free fall after the government...
View ArticlePutnam makes state's water woes a priority
SEBRING — Adam Putnam looks over the flooded prairie of the Rafter T Ranch and can smell the opportunity, stronger than cow flop. The Republican Florida agriculture commissioner from Bartow has been...
View ArticleWHITE HOUSE 2016: Rick Perry touts governors as best presidents
SPARTANBURG — Texas Gov. Rick Perry touted how governors who need to find their own solutions make the best presidents before a group of South Carolinians who might consider voting for the Republican...
View ArticlePension deal benefits Gov. Quinn heading into election year
Updated: December 4, 2013 7:16AM By Tuesday night, organized labor was shouting “pension theft,” while Republican candidates for governor either grumbled about the constitution or a raw deal for...
View ArticleLetters to the editor on low wages, Brownback, 17th Amendment, Peterjohn,...
Our taxes pay for low wages Do you realize that every time one of the big retailers or fast-food companies has an employee on food stamps or welfare, or whose children are on Medicaid, we pay for that?...
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