Here on the High Plains, where the deer and the antelope once played, Denver's suburbs roam toward the Rockies' front range and the nature of today's polyglot politics is written in the local congressman's campaign schedule.
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November 1, 2019 - 6:00am
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There used to be an old saying: "Bullets don't have eyes" -- which means anyone can get hit by a bullet once it's fired from a gun.
I knew it the minute I read it. The Reason Foundation's report on the state of the nation's roads, released Thursday, is dead wrong.
Technology has put powerful computers in billions of pockets, but an invention much more mundane than the smartphone -- the shipping container: a rectangular steel box -- also has changed the world. Because of it, two of today's preoccupations -- infrastructure and globalization -- are connected by a chain of events that began more than 60 years ago and today runs through Congress and to the wharves of Charleston's booming port.
As the first presidential debate approaches, fists clench, jaws tighten and invectives giggle in anticipation.
Hold on President Obama! We love you and all, but you stepped a little out of turn this weekend while giving your speech at the Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference annual Phoenix Dinner.
I am proud to have served as the communications director for the Florida Education Association -- the Florida teachers union -- from 1990 to 1992. That’s why I remain stunned and so saddened by the union’s misguided lawsuit to kill the successful corporate tax credit scholarship program.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) 2017 proposal suggests potential increases for higher ethanol blends in gasoline.
If you are the status quo candidate in a change election in which the national mood is sour and two-thirds of the electorate think the country is on the wrong track, what do you do? Attack. Relentlessly. Paint your opponent as extremist, volatile, clueless, unfit, dangerous. Indeed, Hillary Clinton's latest national ad, featuring major Republican politicians echoing that indictment of Donald Trump, ends thus: "Unfit. Dangerous. Even for Republicans."
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By Kevin Derby
US. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., introduced the “Free Market Health-care Restoration and Coverage Act of 2015” on Thursday which repeals President Barack Obama’s heath-care law while keeping subsidies until 2017.
By Kevin Derby
On Thursday, the U.S. House voted to repeal the 2.3 percent excise tax on medical devices set up by President Barack Obama’s federal health-care law. The tax was repealed on a 280-140 vote and U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., co-sponsored the repeal.
By Kevin Derby
On Thursday, U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., brought out the “Protecting Taxpayers and Communities from Local Detention Quotas Act.” The bill stops the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from getting “ into contracts that provide specific detention centers with prepaid, guaranteed numbers of detainees each day.” Deutch pointed to reports that at least 15 for-profit detention centers with ICE contracts have quotas.
By Kevin Derby
Gov. Rick Scott said on Thursday that Florida’s real gross domestic product (GDP) in 2014 stood at almost $770 billion, up 2.7 percent from the year before, higher than the national increase of 2.2 percent, making Florida the state with the fourth largest GDP in the nation.
By Kevin Derby
This week, U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., voted to direct President Barack Obama to follow the War Powers Resolution and remove troops from Iraq and Syria. Yoho sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
By Kevin Derby
Presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., weighed in on the data breach at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in which more than 4 million Americans had their information stolen.
By Kevin Derby
Currently running for the U.S. Senate, U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., called the shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina which left nine people dead as a “hate crime” and offered prayers and condolences.
By Kevin Derby
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., offered his take on the Republican presidential contest this week and expressed surprise that former Gov. Jeb Bush, R-Fla., was not crushing the competition.
By Kevin Derby
Three South Florida Republicans in Congress--U.S. Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Carlos Curbelo and Mario Diaz-Balart--want Guatemala nationals to have Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in the U.S. due to natural disasters in that Latin American nation, allowing them to temporarily live and work in the U.S.
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Fla., a member of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, supported the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill on Tuesday which contained around $150 million for Everglades restoration funding. The Appropriations Committee passed the bill on a 30-21 vote on Tuesday.
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