excerpt: ""Last year, Oklahoma state legislator Sally Kern (R) drew well-deserved criticism for an outlandish rant against the gay community, in which she compared homosexuality to "toe cancer" and said "it's the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism …

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SALEM – The senate backed a resolution to be referred to Oregon voters this afternoon that aligns the ORVET home loan program with the federal Veterans' Affairs program.

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While not a new trend, recently there's been a relative explosion in efforts at state legislatures across the country to introduce legislation that will impede or outlaw municipal broadband projects. I'm here to say outright that no state can afford to embark on any effort to st …

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An international team led by the Scripps Research Institute in California said on Thursday it is the safest method yet found to transform ordinary skin cells into what are called induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells. More Articles

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"I just think it's immoral to create life and destroy it in the name of science," said Georgia State Sen. Ralph Hudgens. "In Nazi Germany they did experiments with human beings. I don't want to see that done here."

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The Washington State legislature just passed legislation today that protects women breastfeeding in public from discrimination, i.e. it's no longer legal to ask someone breastfeeding their child in public to go do it somewhere else.

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Georgia's chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People plans to push again for the state Legislature to issue an apology for slavery.

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Medical marijuana could be grown in industrial settings if a bill in the legislature goes through. Allan Dougherty is a medical marijuana patient in support of the effort. The 84-year-old veteran says marijuana eases the chronic aches in his foot and ankle.

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House Speaker Andrew Romanoff and House Minority Leader Mike May this morning announced the creation of a special committee to investigate Rep. Doug Bruce's kicking of a Rocky Mountain News photographer on Monday.

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The swearing-in to a near-empty chamber just after 1:30 p.m.

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Every member of the Florida State House represents 140,000 Floridians. Each member has one vote. Or should have one vote. But on April 18th, Clearwater Representative Kimberly Berfield pushed the yes button of hers, and three other representatives, on a bill she sponsored.

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Assemblywoman Sally Lieber D-Mtn. is advocating for the California State Legislature to pass a "no spank bill" allowing a fine of $1000 or up to a year in jail for parents who spank their children under the age of three.

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