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Kitty Boitnott says Virginia has cut $1.6 billion from minimum school standards

By Sean Gorman February 7, 2012

Public education has been permanently cut "by $1.6 billion through changes in the Standards of Quality funding formula."

Did Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality take a disproportionate hit in the 2011-13 budget?

By Janie Har February 7, 2012

In the 2011 legislative session, DEQ's budget was cut 18.5 percent — a disproportionate cut compared to other natural resource agencies.

One New Jersey: Chris Christie’s talk on state’s jobs situation conflicts with middle-class reality

By Erin O'Neill February 7, 2012

Says New Jersey is "down nearly 200,000 jobs from its pre-recession peak" and with Gov. Chris Christie "New Jersey has trailed the rest of America…

Kathleen Clyde says Ohio among the leaders for provisional ballots in the nation

By Tom Feran February 7, 2012

"Ohio has one of the highest provisional ballot rates in the country, and many of them go uncounted each election."

Did Romney flip on deporting illegal immigrants?

By Eric Stirgus February 7, 2012

On deporting illegal immigrants.

Home “sales tax” e-mail surfaces again

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. February 7, 2012

"If you sell your house after 2012 you will pay a 3.8 percent sales tax on it."

Marco Rubio said “No candidate has run more negative ads in American history than Barack Obama did in 2008”

By Amy Sherman February 6, 2012

"No candidate has run more negative ads in American history than Barack Obama did in 2008, especially in the general.’’

White House official says 98 percent of Catholic women have used contraception

By Becky Bowers February 6, 2012

"Most women, including 98 percent of Catholic women, have used contraception."

In “Debbie-Spend-It-Now” ad, Pete Hoekstra errs on unemployment rate statistic

By Louis Jacobson February 6, 2012

"Since ObamaCare and the stimulus passed, the unemployment rate in the U.S. has increased."

Lamar Smith says online piracy and counterfeiting costs the U.S. economy $100 billion a year

By W. Gardner Selby February 6, 2012

"Illegal counterfeiting and piracy costs the U.S. economy $100 billion... every year."

Kemp makes case for voter ID law

By Eric Stirgus February 6, 2012

The Georgia Secretary of State's Office and the Georgia State Elections Board investigate and penalize hundreds of people guilty of election fraud.

Democratic state Rep. Fred Clark says Gov. Scott Walker cut technical college job training by $70 million

By Dave Umhoefer February 5, 2012

Says Gov. Scott Walker "made more than $70 million in cuts to job training programs through (Wisconsin’s) technical colleges."

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