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Statement on stadium, minority businesses short on info

By Janel Davis February 22, 2013

"What concerns me is there is only two sentences that have been written about minority business."

Block says 9,000 R.I. voters used master lever for Moderate Party — with no party candidates on ballot

By Michael McKinney February 22, 2013

"More than 9,000 Rhode Island voters used the Moderate Party master lever mechanism and they didn't have a single Moderate on their ballot."

Gov. John Kasich says expanding Medicaid would help uninsured who use emergency rooms for primary care

By Tom Feran February 21, 2013

Without a Medicaid expansion, 275,000 more Ohioans could be getting their primary care in emergency rooms, costing "everybody a lot of money."

Barack Obama says sequester would cut vaccinations, cancer screenings for hundreds of thousands

By Louis Jacobson February 21, 2013

If the sequester hits, "hundreds of thousands of Americans will lose access to primary care and preventive care like flu vaccinations and cancer screenings."

Barack Obama says sequestration cuts will be indiscriminate

By Louis Jacobson February 21, 2013

The sequester "won’t consider whether we’re cutting some bloated program that has outlived its usefulness, or a vital service that Americans depend on every single…

UPDATED: Sarah Eckhardt says unemployment in Travis County lower than nation, but poverty is worse and rising

By W. Gardner Selby February 21, 2013

Says Travis County's unemployment rate is below the national average while its poverty rate exceeds the national average--and local poverty is rising.

Gun claim goes awry

By Eric Stirgus February 21, 2013

"There’s more murders with hammers last year than...shotguns and pistols and AK-47s."

Jon Bramnick claims New Jersey had an $11 billion deficit when Chris Christie became governor

By Caryn Shinske February 21, 2013

Says, "when this governor came to office, he had (an) 11 billion dollar  - I call it mismanagement – deficit."

Ted Cruz says Hagel nomination “publicly celebrated by the Iranian government”

By W. Gardner Selby February 21, 2013

Says Chuck Hagel’s nomination as defense secretary "has been publicly celebrated by the Iranian government."

Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel says entitlement spending expected to consume all federal revenue by 2045

By Stephen Koff February 21, 2013

Federal spending on entitlements "is projected to consume all revenue by 2045."

Millionaire Honeywell CEO David Cote compares today’s U.S. debt to post-World War II

By Jake Berry February 21, 2013

"The only time in our history when the debt has been higher than this was the end of World War II."

Wayne LaPierre says New York mayor refused National Guard help after Sandy ‘because Guardsmen carry guns!’

By Becky Bowers February 20, 2013

Says after Hurricane Sandy, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg "refused to allow the National Guard into the city to restore civil order because Guardsmen carry…

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