26 June 2009 - Chevron New Zealand will defer the temporary closure of Caltex Kaikohe until Friday September 4, following the intervention of Northland MP John Carter to ensure the company had access to regional environmental data that allowed a

26 June 2009 - The Government's decision to stop the development of the National War Memorial Parkl is a disgrace, says Labour's veterans affairs spokesperson Rick Barker.

26 June 2009 - Structural imbalances that have become a handbrake on the economy are laid bare in gross domestic product data for the March quarter issued today, Finance Minister Bill English says.

Wayne Mapp's claim that his government's axing of Labour's R&D tax credit has not put New Zealand at a competitive disadvantage compared to Australia shows how out of the touch the Government is, says Labour's Spokesperson for Research & Development,

Labour's Associate Spokesperson for Labour Darien Fenton says that Kate Wilkinson's comments at the estimates of Vote Labour at Select Committee this morning shows a lazy and uncaring attitude to her portfolio.

Here we go again: earlier this week, Sarah Palin worked herself up into a about a joke, this time about a doctored photo showing her holding a talk show host in her arms, cuddling him as if he were a

As if you didn't already know, you can now quantify how bad your state is doing in providing care, courtesy HHS. Secretary Kathleen Sebelius released a series of new reports today that quantify the problems, state by state. The new

Colbert skewers the Republican health care "plan":

NATIONAL: The Plusses, and Perils, of Facebook Rachel Kapochunas over at has an interesting piece that will likely impact some campaigns in 2010, and many more in future cycles. The growing prominence of sites like Facebook is going to be

In a squeaker, the House passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, by , with one super-courageous Dem voting no at the very last possible minute, just for fun! 44 Dems voted against the bill, and 8 Republicans crossed

Tonight's Rescue brought to you by jlms qkw, YatPundit, dopper0189, vcmvo2, ybruti with vcmvo2 as editor. The diaries up for rescue are: ShadowSD continues a series on the internal conditions in Iran in . (dopper0189) In , National Nurses Movement

Not a bad week, but this stuff starts getting repetitive after a while. But there was one piece of hate mail so brilliant, I almost wept at its beauty. So I decided it deserved the day to itself and a

Despite multiple bombings in the past week, Iraq's prime minister says the country is more than ready for from the country's cities by month's end. . The Cleveland Plain Dealer takes a long, hard look at members of the Senate

McClatchy's Kevin Hall is out with a raising more questions about the propriety of Mark Sanford's trade mission to Argentina last summer. Sanford had adding Argentina to the trade mission, which originally planned a trip to Brazil. He met with

On Thursday, Sanford agreed to reimburse the state for part of a more-than $8,000 tab that enabled him to see his mistress on an official economic development trip to Argentina's capital city. At a Cabinet meeting Friday, he told the

There were a couple of stories this week coming from Congressional work on health care reform that didn't find wide distribution in the public debate, but need to be heard. The first came from Wendell Potter, a former head of

Saturday punditry. High winds and occasional showers. : From Day 1, Iran's women stood in the vanguard. Their voices from rooftops were loudest, and their defiance in the streets boldest. "Stand, don't run," Nazanine told me as the baton-wielding police

In an unprecedented move, the White House retracted yesterday the embargoed text for the president's usual weekly address, which it generally sends to news outlets the evening before the official Saturday remarks are posted on the White House website. The

Austin has always been blue, now there's a chance it could help turn the rest of the nation a healthy shade of luxuriant green. The Austin-American Statesman is and sources at the confirm to me that the city is seriously

Barack Obama, I want to be very clear that our goal is to construct a legitimate legal framework for Guantanamo detainees - not to avoid one. In our constitutional system, prolonged detention should not be the decision of any one