Recent Votes

• Agenda 21: Arizona close to passing anti-UN-sustainability bill

  Arizona lawmakers appear close to sending to Gov. Jan Brewer a tea party-backed bill that proponents say would stop a United Nations takeover conspiracy but that critics claim could end state and cities’ pollution-fighting efforts and even dismantle the state unemployment o …

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• Obama slams representatives using their own words

    As he traveled to three swing states this week to talk about student loan costs, President Barack Obama has been turning the words of Republican members of Congress against them in order to underscore, as the president characterizes it, their indifference to the struggles …

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• Illinois schools may consider pay-to-ride bus program

  A free ride may be ending for many Illinois students, who, like others in cash-strapped school districts nationwide, may have to pay for their bus trip to school.

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• France's election battle moves from hearts to heads

  LONDON – My daughter Juliette is thirty-something, a former executive assistant to a top CEO, a mother of two and expecting her third child. Her husband, Nader, is a designer and engineer of energy systems. They are upwardly mobile, and they are both French, livin …

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• 'Painter of Light' artist Thomas Kinkade dies at age 54

  One of the most popular artists in America, "Painter of Light" Thomas Kinkade, died Friday at his home in Los Gatos, Calif., his family said. He was 54, and his family issued a statement that his death appeared to be from natural causes.

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