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Housing bill contains property tax break for some
Homeowners who do not itemize on their federal tax returns will get a new property tax deduction this year under legislation that gained final congressional approval in the U.S. Senate on Saturday.
NW senators split over curbing oil speculation
Northwest senators are divided along party lines as the U.S. Senate considers a measure to rein in oil market speculators.
Woodrow Wilson library plans expansion
The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library is buying a building to house its expanding collection of Wilson papers.
O'Malley touts StateStat in Capitol Hill testimony
Members of the U.S. Senate have been given a pitch about statistics-driven management from Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley.
O’Malley promotes StateStat to Congress
Gov. Martin O’Malley touted Maryland’s StateStat performance measures on Capitol Hill on Thursday to a U.S. Senate subcommittee that hopes to recommend similar management improvement programs to the new U.S. president.
Officials: AZ enclave kids may be missing school
Possibly hundreds of children may not be receiving an education in a northern Arizona community long dominated by a polygamist sect, officials said Thursday.
Poll: McCain gains on Obama in Minn.
The presidential race tightened considerably in Minnesota over the last month, with Republican John McCain erasing a once-commanding lead by Democrat Barack Obama in Minnesota according to an independent poll released Thursday. Republican Norm Coleman remained far ahead of DFLer Al Franken in the Senate race.
Nader to seek reopening of Pa. ballot access case
Ralph Nader said Thursday he will ask Pennsylvania's highest court to reopen a case stemming from a successful effort to remove him from the 2004 presidential ballot, citing allegations that state Democratic legislative officials illegally underwrote the effort with taxpayer money.
Mark Tapscott: New leadership for GOP, or a new party altogether?
Doomsayers always appear when one of the two major political parties suffers an epic electoral disaster. It happened to the Republicans after the Goldwater and Nixon debacles in 1964 and 1974, and to the Democrats following the Contract with America insurgency in 1994. Obviously, both parties came back strongly from those defeats.
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