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Ohio tea party rep needs history lesson

January 25, 2011 By Rick Nagin

Tea party leaders and the ultra-right need a lesson in history when it comes to our Founding Fathers who were not only revolutionaries in deed, but many held far-reaching democratic ideas that the tea-baggers would denounce...

California fast tracks health care reform

January 24, 2011

The contrast could not be starker. In the nation's capital, Congressional Republicans move to cripple, if not kill, health care reform. In California, state public officials and health care advocates move aggressively to pump life into...

Michigan governor goes down old, no-solution path

January 20, 2011 By John Rummel

Republican Gov. Rick Snyder's State of the State address last night showed that his drive to "reinvent" Michigan is neither new nor a balm for this crisis-weary state.

California governor: budget “will take sacrifice”

January 12, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

Brown told a Capitol says his budget "will take sacrifice from every sector of California."

State budget crises and Mr. Holland’s sorrow

January 12, 2011 By Art Perlo

In the coming year, states face a combined shortfall likely to exceed $112 billion.