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Alan Grayson came to the House Floor today to introduce the Public Option Act, which would allow all Americans to buy into Medicare at cost. The bill is 4 pages long, & calls for an unsubsidized option for any American to choose Medicare over private insurers. The bill would require the Secretary of Health & Human Services to establish enrollment..

The nation's largest home builders are going out of their way to remind the public of the first time home buyer tax credit deadline, but what are they doing to do keep the housing market active when it's time to face reality?

If you have an iPhone or iPod touch, then you know how helpful some apps can be—like the one that makes navigating public transportation easier than navigating through your own house! Well, these aren’t those kind of applications. These are the ones that do little more than give us a good laugh. Poke around our picks for the best of the worst.

DeWeese takes the Fifth, will not testify Bill DeWeese, the top-ranking Demo-crat in the state House of Representatives until about a year ago, will not be testifying in the Harrisburg public-corruption trial of his former colleague Mike Veon, his lawyer said Tuesday.De'Weese, of Waynesburg, appeared Tuesday morning for a meeting in the chambe

Members of the Prince George's County House and Senate Delegations have long played a hands on role when it came to dealing with the public schools in the county.

The Georgia Association of REALTORS (GAR) will be hosting a statewide open house April 10-11. Over the weekend, thousands of homes for sale in Georgia, will be open for public viewing. GAR is encouraging local REALTORS to provide access to

Fred Chappell will read from his latest book, "Ancestors and Others" The reading, free and open to the public, begins at 7 p.m. in the Alumni House on College Avenue

For months now, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) has been promising that the climate and energy bill he's authoring with Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) will be released sometime soon. Last week, his spokesman told me their bill would be made public in the "coming weeks." But it’s well known that the trio is not introducing anything un

Every officer in charge, politicians and representatives of public responsibility should have to be underwritten for what happens in his house. And if one’s own organization offenses weight as heavily as in the widening scandal around the abuse of children in church-run facilities, there can be no alternative but the resignation of Benedict XVI.

March 1, about 5,200 naked people have embraced each other on the steps of Sydney's iconic Opera House for a photo shoot by American artist Spencer Tunick, who is known for his nude group photos in public spaces.The artist asked his subjects to pose with their hands by their sides, up high above their heads, and even asked all couples in the cr