There are two ballot initiatives voters will be deciding on this coming Tuesday. Proposition 28 deals with term limits, while Proposition 29 will impose a $1 cigarette tax for cancer
Who is funding the Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns? Political watch-dog group, OpenSecrets.org presents the facts in the following infographic. An interesting fact: Ron Paul's campaign
Bill Bloomfield, a former Republican, is running a mostly self-financed campaign as an independent in the newly formed 33th Congressional District of California. It encompasses affluent beach cities from
With just two days left until the California primary, candidates from across the state have been stepping up their game in order to finish some last minute campaigning. Yard signs,
During this period of economic crises for our country and its people, one would think the priority of national leaders would be finding solutions and working together to right the
Young Americans are increasingly likely to be unemployed, living at home, and making less money than they should be. This is leading to a crisis in the US economy: fewer
Independent Voter Network's writer, Alan Markow, reported earlier this week on the difficulties facing the new StartUp Act 2.0, a bipartisan immigration bill. Here's another
General Motors will be cutting back its pension payments by $26 billion, by offering its salaried retired employees a lump sum payment and switching to Prudential Financial Inc. to handle
For several generations, partisan leaders on both sides of the aisle have manipulated election and districting laws to reduce competition at the ballot box. The result is a political system
The much-anticipated May jobs report revealed disappointing news. While 69,000 jobs were created, the unemployment rate inched up from 8.1% to 8.2%. The reaction from Democrats
Our political campaigns have a serious and growing problem. Candidates for office rarely mention major issues facing their prospective constituencies, much less propose solutions. Instead, the focus is too often
Unemployment, by the numbers. This coupled with the recent zombie outbreak ensures that the world is in fact ending in 2012.
* 40: The unemployment rate has been at or above
Chad Peace