Politics, Political News - POLITICO.com

Politics, Political News - POLITICO.com

Republican state Sen. Scott Brown has defeated Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley in the special election for the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Ted Kennedy, according to the AP. Brown's upset victory brings an end to the Democrats' 60-seat majority in the Senate and could have serious implications for the health care reform legislation before Congress.

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more-and-more-states-on-budget-brink: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

more-and-more-states-on-budget-brink: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

California is hurtling into the budgetary abyss -- and it's not alone.

Across the nation, state tax collections in the first three quarters of 2009 posted their steepest decline in at least 46 years, according to a report this month from the public policy research arm of the State University of New York.