Mich. candidate backs intelligent design
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos ignited a controversy that kept blogs, party activists and editorial writers fired up for days when he said he approves of intelligent design being taught along with evolution in science classes.
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The National Academy of Sciences on Thursday issued a spirited defense of evolution as the bedrock principle of modern biology, arguing that it, not creationism, must be taught in public school science classes.
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Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton's effort to win Ohio's critical presidential primary got a boost Tuesday when former senator and astronaut John Glenn endorsed her candidacy.
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The Illinois Senate voted Friday to spend state tax dollars on embryonic stem cell research, despite objections from those who argue the research destroys human life.
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Long a congressional ally of the American automobile industry, John Dingell is now promising to introduce a bill that would create a tax on carbon emissions. But is he sincere?
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Boxing legend Muhammad Ali endorsed Michigan's Democratic governor for re-election on Wednesday, saying he backed Jennifer Granholm's efforts to overturn the state's ban on embryonic stem cell research.
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Former Massachusetts Gov.  Mitt Romney, who is seeking the Republican presidential  nomination, sought to solidify support among social  conservatives on Friday, pledging to work against abortion, gay  marriage and embryonic stem cell research if he is elected.
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By Julie Carr Smyth  COLUMBUS  --  Don't be afraid, Ohioans. It's only math and science.  That would be the message of a multiyear public awareness campaign that was among recommendations Monday by a panel studying ways to improve the state's high-tech future.
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By Mike Monson, The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill.  Sep.
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Russ Darrow -- &quot;The Right Russ,&quot; his bumper stickers say -- is running in the Sept. 14 primary for the Republican nomination for the US Senate seat held by Russ Feingold (D-Wis.). Feingold is a saint in the church of campaign finance ...
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A federal trial began today in Atlanta over evolution disclaimers in Cobb County schools. A group of parents backed by the ACLU argue that the disclaimers in science biology textbooks are a government endorsement of religion.
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I return at last to the creationism-intelligent design debate. After all my rather coy gambits on this topic over recent months, the conclusion may come as something of an anticlimax. It really is for me too: I'm tired of wrestling with it.
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By Terry Rindfleisch, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 21--When people talk about a statewide smoke-free workplace law, Doug Mormann understands the politics but wishes legislators and others would be more concerned about public health.
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Why does a 60-year-old Vegan former mayor of Cleveland keep running for President? Maybe because he thinks he's right
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Against Michigan's economically sullen landscape, the GOP candidate found his footing. Can he sustain his bounce?
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A Pennsylvania school district on  Friday defended its decision to discount Charles Darwin's  theory of evolution and take a lead in teaching what critics  say is a version of creationism.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday defended his opposition to most embryonic stem cell research despite its scientific promise to cure diseases like multiple sclerosis that afflicts his wife, Ann.