As if health care, cap-and-trade, the economy and two wars weren’t enough, immigration looms as an unsolved problem, noted columnist Michael Barone. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the status quo is “is simply unacceptable,”...

“The Obama administration’s plan for stimulating the creation of green-energy jobs is going in an odd direction,” noted Dallas Morning News columnist Jim Landers. Most of the wind-energy projects seeking money under the American Recovery and...

Some administration officials are saying that the progress on health care reform legislation, and the increasing likelihood that it will become law, vindicates President Obama’s largely hands-off strategy to reform. Rather than come out with his own...

The state’s 5.3 percent sales tax produced $3 billion in revenue in 2008. But the state missed out on another $4 billion in taxes from sales that were exempt, the Lawrence Journal World reported. If all those sales had been taxed, the state sales tax...