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The Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation in Burkeville, Virginia. Photo provided to the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission by VCBR.

Va. approaches decision on privatizing sex offender program

| 06.25.12 | 2:24 pm | View Article
The nation’s second-largest private prison company says it expects Virginia to make a decision by next month on its bid to expand and operate the state’s detention facility for sexually violent predators who have completed their prison terms.
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Photo: Unidentified workers from Hallmark Industrial Services take a lunch break from oil spill clean up work in August of 2010.

Feds indict oil spill contractors over undocumented workers

| 05.24.12 | 10:42 am | View Article

LANSING — The federal government has indicted an owner and a manager of a Texas-based company for allegedly conspiring to violate immigration laws. More…

Workers see human cost of retirement age hikes

| 03.20.12 | 10:58 am | View Article

In state legislatures across the country, slashing the benefits and pension plans of public sector workers has come into bipartisan fashion. Even in the deep-blue states of California and New York, governors are leading pushes to cut the pensions and benefits packages won by public workers over the decades. The More…

Cornyn, Hutchison vote for contraceptive exemption bill

| 03.01.12 | 5:19 pm | View Article

While a Republican Senate bill More… seeking to overturn the Obama administration’s contraception health care policy rule was eventually tabled Thursday morning, a fight over religious freedom and women’s health proceeded, with two Texas Senators defending the measure.
Texas Republican Senators and bill co-sponsors, John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison, voted

Colorado Democrats rail against Romney on eve of caucuses

Scot Kersgaard | 02.07.12 | 10:34 am | The Colorado Independent | View Article

While Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum campaigned in Colorado Monday, in advance of Tuesday’s caucuses, National Democratic Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., participated in conference calls with Colorado reporters, as she had on Friday. On both calls, she said that Romney “… has shown time and again More…

Michigan GOP candidates for U.S. Senate agree on most issues in debate

| 01.30.12 | 10:08 am | View Article

The seven Republican candidates vying for a Michigan U.S. Senate seat, currently occupied by Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow, met in a mostly cordial forum Saturday at the University of Michigan – Dearborn campus. More…

In Colorado, Obama links clean energy to national security

Scot Kersgaard | 01.27.12 | 5:12 pm | The Colorado Independent | View Article

President Barack Obama Thursday drew repeated applause at a private event at Aurora’s Buckley Air Force Base when he called on the country to work toward energy independence, which he called a matter of national security. More…

Obama’s push for ‘clean energy’ elicits partisan reaction from Colorado lawmakers

Troy Hooper | 01.25.12 | 5:46 pm | The Colorado Independent | View Article

President Obama’s call to increase domestic energy production More… Tuesday received a rosy reception from Colorado’s lefty lawmakers but was all but ignored by its conservative congressional delegation still smarting from the commander-in-chief’s recent blocking of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.