Posts tagged state
California State Workers Brace For Minimum Wage
Jul 3rd
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As the Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the technology of the future, feared by humans. As governor, he’s being foiled by the technology of the past.
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Loading ...Michael J. Wilson: Hawaii: The Final Chapter on Civil Unions
Jul 3rd
The center of the universe for making change this 4th of July weekend is Hawaii . That’s right — the 50th state is 2010′s Wimbledon for the effort to battle LGBT discrimination, and Governor Linda Lingle is playing on center court.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Tom Doctoroff: China’s Co-Dependent Middle Class and Communist Party
Jul 1st
The motivations of China’s emerging middle class are streaked with contradictions and, as a result, so are its attitudes towards, and expectations of, the Communist Party. Despite its ambivalence to China’s central government, burgeoning incomes will not trigger abrupt changes between citizens and state due to a co-dependent relationship between rulers and ruled
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...House Dems, Citing Corruption, Block Reconstruction Funds For Afghanistan
Jun 28th
The House Democrat who oversees funding for Afghanistan’s redevelopment and reconstruction said on Monday that she is stripping money from her foreign aid bill in reaction to pervasive corruption. Dave Obey, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, supports the move made by subcommittee chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), according to an Obey spokesman.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Louisiana Oil Spill Day Of Prayer: Bobby Jindal Orders June 27 As Day For Religious Perseverance
Jun 25th
On Thursday, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) issued an order designating June 27 a “Statewide Day of Prayer” for perseverance through the BP oil spill that continues to devastate the country’s Gulf Coast region. Last week, the Louisiana State Senate unanimously approved a resolution urging people to pray for an end to the environmental crisis.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Chris Cassidy: Democracy Not for the "Touchy, Feely"
Jun 25th
Secrecy and democracy are like oil and water. Trusting voters with the right to pass laws and the responsibility to elect lawmakers, requires trusting the public with information about the laws and candidates we vote on. After all, do we really want to live in a society where voters are kept in the dark about the issues printed on our ballots?
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Rand Paul: ‘I Don’t Think The 14th Amendment Was Meant To Apply To Illegal Aliens’
Jun 24th
Kentucky Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul says he would support amending the United States Constitution to end the country’s policy of guaranteeing citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants. “Many argue that these children that are born to illegal aliens are really still under the jurisdiction of the Mexican government,” Paul said in an interview earlier this week with Right Wing News. “I think we need to fight that out in the courts.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Mike Lee: Nevada Senate Candidate’s Views Earn Him Nickname ‘Rand Paul Of The West’
Jun 24th
By electing Mike Lee as the Republican nominee for Senate in Utah on Tuesday, voters in the state’s open primary may also have picked the man who will ultimately fill GOP incumbent Bob Bennett’s long-held seat come November. Lee will face-off against Democratic candidate Sam Granato in the state’s general election.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...AB 32: Oil Companies Fight To Suspend California’s Climate Change Law
Jun 24th
California headed for a high-stakes battle over global warming Tuesday, as an oil industry-backed measure to suspend the state’s aggressive climate-change law qualified for the November ballot.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Gerald McEntee: More Jobs = Less Debt
Jun 23rd
In the worst economy since the Great Depression, far too many Americans are out of work. Despite the rising fears of more job losses, the Senate is refusing to do what is necessary to protect and create jobs.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Daniel Cubias: The Unintended Consequences of SB 1070
Jun 23rd
The good people of Arizona are counting the days.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Nikki Haley Primary Win Ensures A Place On National Stage
Jun 23rd
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Nikki Haley’s victory in South Carolina’s bruising GOP primary for governor moves the state lawmaker closer to becoming her state’s first woman chief executive and America’s first Sikh-born governor, while assuring her a place on the national political scene. Like Louisiana Gov.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Norm Stamper: Karl "Turd Blossom" Rove: Naive or Disengenuous About Arizona’s New Immigration Law
Jun 22nd
Karl Rove’s June 21 column in Newsweek attacks President Obama’s concerns about Arizona’s recently passed immigration law. The president, writes Rove, “willingly mischaracterizes the Arizona law because doing so benefits his party and himself.” He sneers at Obama’s assertion that the law will turn “Latinos into subjects of suspicion and abuse.” George W. Bush’s former adviser is either (a) woefully misinformed and naive about the new law, or (b) back to his familiar pattern of prevarication.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Jerry Brown House, Worth $1.8 Million, Doesn’t Fit California Governor Candidate’s Tale Of Frugality
Jun 22nd
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When he takes to the campaign trail, Jerry Brown is fond of reminding voters that he shunned the governor’s mansion in Sacramento in favor of a rented apartment during his first tour in the executive office and lived in a downtown loft in Oakland while he was mayor of the crime-ridden city.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...2010 Primary Results: Utah, South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi
Jun 22nd
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Fernando Espuelas: Barbarism: Utah’s Firing Squad
Jun 21st
Ronnie Lee Gardner, a convicted murder, was executed early morning Friday by the State of Utah’s firing squad. The United States has been a beacon of freedom, democracy and civilization across three centuries.
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