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WASHINGTON– Bureau of Land Management employees have a Thursday deadline to tell the agency whether they plan to relocate from Washington to new locations out west, including Grand Junction. More the two dozen positions will be in Grand Junction at the BLM’s new headquarters.

A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that Amtrak is more like a part of the government than a private corporation when it helps federal agencies craft rules to keep trains running on time. But the justices said it’s up to lower courts to decide whether Congress gave the passenger rail company too much power to develop standards that other private railroads must follow. A 2008 law directs Amtrak to work with the Federal Railroad Administration to create standards that let Amtrak keep priority over freight trains along common railroad tracks. That upset the freight railroad industry, which argues that Amtrak...

Even though the government appears unable to run its own two mortgage companies [Freddie and Fannie], OBAMA! wants to create an entirely new regulatory agency to police the financial decisions you make...

Brazen Bureaucrats Proposed health coverage for domestic partners violates separation of powers By Clint Bolick Extending health benefits to domestic partners of government employees is a fiercely contentious issue. Arizona voters decided last year not to prohibit such benefits, but efforts to create them have come up empty in the state legislature. No problem, says the Department of Administration, a state executive agency: we'll mandate insurance coverage for domestic partners of state employees and retirees by bureaucratic fiat. And it did just that in a proposed rule filed last November 30 to expand the term "dependent" to include domestic partners....