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Christmas doesn???t bring a holiday from Palm Beach County???s gift rules for local government officials and employees. That???s the message this week from the county???s Ethics Commission, which is spreading the word that rules limiting gifts from...

by Frank James Whenever Congress rushes through complex legislation, there's likely to be more than a few unintended consequences. And the package of more than $800 billion in spending that lawmakers want to spend to stimulate the economy is no......

by Mark Silva In a town where the last vice president maintained that he didn't have to inform the National Archives about the volume of material that his office was classifying as secret -- because Vice President Dick Cheney asserted......

For Los Angeles to meet its legal obligations and provide for a more sustainable energy and water future, rates must go up. Soon. The City Council doesn't like to acknowledge that because it knows there are few more predictable ways to raise the ire of...

By William Gibson, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio praised President Barack Obama’s executive order cracking down on sex trafficking, which the senator says mirrors his own proposed legislation. Obama outlined new steps...

In advance of the 2008 election, Focus on the Family released "Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America," warning their followers what life would be like in the fall of 2012 were Barack Obama to be elected. It's both frightening and......

A long-awaited report was made public by the Air Force and disclosed details about the death of a pilot who crashed in the Alaskan wilderness in the military's most expensive fighter jet, the F-22 Raptor....

Three council members and the mayor were given iPads this week to test before deciding whether to go paperless with council memos. The iPads were …...

Two new studies show that the equal treatment of LGBT employees, including strong anti-discrimination policies and same-sex partner benefits, are more than just the right thing to do. They're also good for business. Studies from the Williams Institute and...

“The States have been passing laws that are already increasing the amount of e-waste collected for recycling, instead of land-filling,” said Kate Sinding, senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council. “Unfortunately,...

Two departments within the city of Los Angeles have received $111 million in federal stimulus funds, yet have created only 55 jobs so far, according to a pair of reports issued Thursday by City Controller Wendy Greuel. The reports conclude......

I contend that the question of whether the state should borrow $8.75 billion is misphrased. We've already, in effect and for all practical purposes, borrowed $10.7 billion, and the only question is how and how quickly we'll repay that money.......