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Rob Port January 4, 2013 5

You wouldn't think that a bill which was supposedly about fixing the nation's fiscal problems would be porked up with...

Rob Port January 4, 2013 28

"At the end of a legislative session, if you ask people if they're going to run for the legislature again...

Rob Port January 4, 2013 74

Chris Gregoire and John Kitzhaber, the governors of Washington and Oregon respectively, want the federal government to raise the minimum...

Rob Port January 4, 2013 87

Putnam County Clerk Dennis Sant, who is refusing to go along with requests for gun owner data from a newspaper...

Rob Port January 4, 2013 13

Taking a look at Governor Dalrymple's proposed budgets for the various executive office holders reveals big pay increases. Dalrymple intends...

Rob Port January 4, 2013 5

US auto sales hit a five-year high for 2012 (a lot of that has to do with Japanese auto manufacturers...

Rob Port January 3, 2013 19

Last month Blue Cross Blue Shield had a lot of people in political circles in the state scratching their heads...

Rob Port January 3, 2013 127

This is the genius of federalism, which allows states to compete with one another in terms of policy, at work:...

Rob Port January 3, 2013 41

Al Jazeera is buying Current TV, the cable news channel founded by Al Gore. Al Jazeera, the pan-Arab news giant,...

Rob Port January 2, 2013 7

I've long argued that the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," won't make health insurance and health care more affordable so...