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The city of Toledo has learned that it will receive - at most - enough federal money to pay for 31 police officers, not 150 officers, as it requested.

Christie Whitman is a former governor of New Jersey and a former Environmental Protection Agency administrator.

On June 26, the U.S. House set our country on a path to a cleaner, more sustainable energy future by passing H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act.

Abortion is emerging as a flashpoint in the congressional debate over health care reform.

A local 12-year-old had a less-than-typical summer week recently -- visiting the White House, being honored by the Ohio Democratic Party and getting a new baby brother.

The newest shape of wind energy is being pioneered in Ohio with the first installation of a Wind Cube on a commercial building.

DNA money Attorney General John Ashcroft said yesterday that the Justice Department, facing a growing backlog of cases, will seek more than $1 billion during the next five years to increase DNA testing in an effort to "breathe new life into long-dormant investigations." "It will allow us to conduct DNA analysis of more offender samples.

Within hours of House passage June 26 of sweeping energy legislation, the party fund-raising letters were already going out.

Therea s a new book coming out titled The Coming Insurrection. Anonymous French anarchists who authored this tome advocate the violent destruction of capitalism.

A lot of politicians peddle their votes, but it's not often that they can secure $3.3 billion for just one.U.S. Rep.

67% No -- global warming is a hoax. 33% Maybe -- I'm somewhere in the middle. 0% Read more and comment here Findlay protestors fired up about cap and trade bill Posted: Updated: By Jonathan Walsh - bio HANCOCK COUNTY, OH - A protest against a bill called the American Clean Energy and Security Act, also known as cap and trade, took place in Findlay ...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, we have talked extensively here about the cap-and-trade bill and the fact that nobody read it, particularly the 300-page amendment that was dumped on the floor of the House at 3:09 a.m. Friday.

Silent Democrats House Majority Leader Tom DeLay yesterday called on Democrats to distance themselves from remarks this week by Rep.

When House Democratic leaders were rounding up votes Friday for the massive climate-change bill, they paid special attention to their colleagues from Ohio who remained stubbornly undecided.

Longtime Toledo councilman and political insider Frank Szollosi will not seek re-election in November to a third term on Toledo City Council.

Driving out to East Towne Mall the other day, I took Thompson Drive, where what used to be farmland has sprouted fields of three-bedroom houses in varying shades of beige.

U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur was still undecided yesterday whether to support the climate change bill that could be voted on today, but said passage of $3.5 billion in borrowing authority for Great Lakes energy and infrastructure would help gain her vote.

USW, CWA, IUOE unions seek equity for former GM and Delphi workers in restructuring WASHINGTON, June 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A letter transmitted by 13 Ohio congressional members and U.S. Sen.

House Democratic leaders enter today's scheduled floor vote on climate change legislation confident they will have enough backing, although there is still uncertainty in their Caucus that they might fall short.

The Federal Reserve's chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, is testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday about his role in persuading Bank of America to complete its acquisition of Merrill Lynch .