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I get emails nearly every week blaming Hawaii’s problems on foolish voters in a steeply Democratic state who keep returning the same unproductive lawmakers to office. The truth isn’t that easy ; in ...
A U.S. appeals court has ruled that a Native Hawaiian man convicted of a hate crime against a white man must be re-sentenced, ...
Democrats have seized on the administration's cuts to the National Weather Service in the wake of the Texas floods.
Hawaii was one of 36 states that held an election for governor in 2018. Democrats gained seven previously Republican -held seats, and Republicans gained one previously independent-held seat. Heading ...
April 4, 2017 - The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that the Civil Rights Act prohibits workplace discrimination against LGBTQ employees, after Kimberly Hively sues Ivy Tech Community College for ...
As a former speaker of the House in the North Carolina Legislature, Tillis had done his homework. He knew that if he voted for the bill, he would be either leaving thousands of working people without ...
The “presidential lean” of a state can, over time, tell us something about how it is trending.— Though 2004 and 2024 produced similar topline national results, there has been some significant change ...
Five months after the intoduction of legislation to arrange for President Donald Trump's face to be added onto Mount Rushmore ...
“In my 33 years here in the United States Senate, things have never — never — worked this way,” said Murray, the longest-serving Democrat on the Budget Committee.
Capping a tumultuous night, the Republican-controlled Senate advanced President Donald Trump’s package of tax breaks, spending cuts and increased deportation money, with more weekend work ahead ...
Hawaii's lieutenant governor and former head of President Obama's 2008 election effort there has been named the state's newest U.S. senator, a choice that went against the dying wish of revered ...