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No new coal plants broke ground in 2009, the Sierra Club said in a statement last week. The group refers to “the coal rush” that it says began in 2001 when 150 proposed coal-fired plants were announced. Since then, 111 have been defeated or abandoned, 26 of them in 2009. And the Obama administration can [...]

President Obama said today at his town hall in Rio Rancho that he’d like to see the Employee Free Choice Act pass, but that compromise might need to happen on the details of the bill if it’s to pass the U.S. Senate. He said that it’s hard for unions to organize under the current rules, [...]

During remarks about the nation’s national debt and annual deficit at today’s Rio Rancho Town Hall, President Obama took the media to task for only paying attention to earmarks in the federal budget when there are much larger problems, namely “entitlement reform.”

Here are President Obama’s remarks laying out his three key points about health care reform, at today’s Rio Rancho Town Hall. He made the remarks in response to a question from the audience about health care and single payer systems.

The message from Latin America Wednesday was that the U.S.-led “war on drugs” is a failure, and a new approach needs to be found.
The Wall Street Journal reports that in a conference call with reporters, three former Latin American heads of state said the war on drugs needs to be re-evaluated.

During the Democratic presidential primary, Obama indicated that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) wasn’t sacrosanct as far as he was concerned, and that he’d be willing to scuttle it if stronger environmental and labor standards weren’t renegotiated.
Later, one of his campaign aides suggested that such sentiments were just part of the political game [...]

New Mexico might be having a meltdown over Gov. Bill Richardson’s loss of the commerce secretary nomination, but President-elect Barack Obama thinks it’s a joking matter.
Obama’s final words of a 40-minute interview with George Stephanopoulos on the Sunday morning talk-show “This Week” compared the search for a commerce secretary to his family’s search for a [...]

Obama has selected U.S. Rep. Hilda Solis, D-Calif., for his labor secretary. Solis is the daughter of immigrants from Mexico and Nicaragua. Her father was a union shop steward, and her mother was an assembly line worker.
Solis has a resume a mile long concerning the rights of workers, women, and the environment. Of special [...]

Given the intensity with which Barack Obama was attacked for his association with former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers during the campaign — most famously by vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, who accused Obama of “palling around with terrorists” — I read this New York Times Op-Ed by Ayers with great interest.
Ayers characterizes the [...]

Yes, we’re in a serious recession, but Barack Obama and Joe Biden still think you should do your holiday shopping with the DNC. So is this where I should send the last little bit of that stimulus check I got this year? Come to think about it, I haven’t spent the $40 I got from New Mexico yet. Maybe I’ll buy a couple of these with that.

Barack Obama now has a 4-1 lead over John McCain in the presidential endorsements by New Mexico newspapers, as the Taos News came out in favor of the Democratic candidate.

The Farmington Daily Times’ editorial board likes John McCain, but couldn’t stomach the idea of Sarah Palin in the Oval Office.

Albuquerque Teachers Federation President Ellen Bernstein prefers Sen. Barack Obama’s education platform over Sen. John McCain’s, but she would like her candidate to make a case for throwing No Child Left Behind  out instead of trying to fix it.

This past weekend’s daily newspaper endorsements for the nation’s next president kept Barack Obama solidly in the lead, with 50 more papers for Obama in one day, including two that were solidly for George W. Bush in 2004, according to the latest tally by Editor & Publisher.
Updated Sunday, E&P’s ongoing tally put Obama’s total at [...]

And do you think the Barack Obama campaign is going after young voters? If you need proof, check out the Xbox live games of college students.
Those ripe, enthusiastic voters Obama would like casting a vote for him in a few weeks are seeing Obama political ads popping up in some of Xbox’s most popular games. [...]