Montana: Medical Marijuana Advocates Push Bill To Amend Strict 2011 Law. By Steve Elliott Hemp News Medical marijuana advocates are making what is being called a final try this legislative session to fix the 2011 law that imposed such tight restrictions on what was then a booming industry that it has been called a defacto legislative repeal of the 2000 law approved by 62 percent of voters.
John Kitzhaber, Oregon Governor, Imposes Moratorium On Death Penalty For Rest Of His Term. Mike Rowe Speaks To Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee [05-11-11] Racist Teens Forced to Answer for Tweets About the 'Nigger' President. Cyndi Lauper: Give a Damn. Social Media and Foreign Policy: An Update From Silicon Valley. Have you ever been to a conference where it’s polite to start tweeting on your cell phone during the keynote address?
Welcome to Social Media Summit 2014, organized for the tech savvy youth of modern Pakistan by the Progressive Youth Forum, and sponsored by a grant from the Pakistan-U.S. Alumni Network. Women Are Becoming Unions’ New Voices. “I’m barely hanging on,” one driver lamented.
Patriotic Millionaires Lobby Supercommittee for Higher Taxes. Two dozen wealthy members of the group Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength are targeting members of the deficit "supercommittee" to increase their taxes.
Entrepreneur and producer Charlie Fink, said he and other Patriotic Millionaires testified in a congressional hearing and visited the offices of 13 members of Congress on Wednesday, seven of whom are members of the supercommittee, to express their concern for the country's fiscal health. Fink, who lives in Washington, D.C., said if the Bush tax cuts do not expire, the country "is digging itself a big hole by foregoing revenue. " Israel, Hamas reach Gaza cease-fire agreement. Historic elections under way in Tunisia - Africa. Nine months after a popular uprising that ended decades of authoritarian rule, Tunisians have begun to vote for new leaders who will write the rules of the country's new political system.
Polls opened at 07:00 local time (06:00 GMT) on Sunday, with about 4.4 million registered voters set to pick a 217-member constituent assembly. That multi-party body will, in addition to drafting a new constitution, also be charged with appointing an interim president and a caretaker government for the duration of the drafting process. More than 11,000 candidates are running in the election, representing 80 political parties. Several thousand candidates are running as independents. Polls close at 19:00 local time (18:00 GMT), and results will be declared on Monday. “Reclaim America from The Lunatic Fringe!” network disabled by coordinated attack by Right Wing Trolls…. New Mexico House Votes 65-0 To Move State's Money To Credit Unions, Community Banks.
New Mexico's House of Representatives voted Monday to pass a bill that allows the state to move $2 billion - $5 billion of state funds to credit unions and small banks. The municipal funds bill was approved 65-0 (roll call - PDF), and is subject to a vote by New Mexico's Senate. Governor Bill Richardson told the bill's sponsor that he supports the legislation. Credit Union Times, spoke to one banker who believes that the bill got a boost from Huffington Post's Move Your Money campaign: The altered view of New Mexico lawmakers in favoring local control of state funds, officials said, follows national mention of the New Mexico effort in the "Move Your Money" campaign of New York pundit Arianna Huffington in her online Huffington Post columns.
"I think Huffington gave this bill a little traction," said Juan Fernandez, vice president of government affairs for the Credit Union Association of New Mexico Pledge to Move Your Money! 'Patriotic Millionaires' Lobby Congress for Higher Taxes on Rich. JEFFREY BROWN: The ‘Occupy’ movement, the bipartisan congressional super committee, deficits, taxes, fairness, economic inequality, they’re all very much in the air right now.
Over the past few months, we have been exploring these issues in a series of reports and conversations. Tonight, we hear from a group that wants higher taxes on itself. They call themselves Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength. The Woman Who Knew Too Much. Boulder's corporate personhood measure (2H) Tea party supporter to Elizabeth Warren: ‘You’re a socialist whore!’ By David EdwardsThursday, November 3, 2011 15:20 EDT.
GOP ‘family values’ mayor admits he’s gay. By David EdwardsFriday, December 16, 2011 13:47 EDT.
Massachusetts legislature passes Transgender Equal Rights Bill. By Eric W.
DolanWednesday, November 16, 2011 16:37 EDT The Massachusetts House and the Senate have approved legislation extending civil rights and hate crimes protections to the state’s approximately 33,000 transgender residents. The Transgender Equal Rights Bill adds protections to the state’s civil rights laws against discrimination in employment, housing, education, and credit based on gender identity or expression.
Supreme Ct: DL music is not a crime. By ReutersMonday, October 3, 2011 15:24 EDT (Reuters) – The Supreme Court let stand on Monday a ruling that a traditional Internet download of sound recording does not constitute a public performance of the recorded musical work under federal copyright law.
The justices refused to review a ruling by an appeals court in New York that the download itself of a musical work does not fall within the law’s definition of a public performance of that work. The not-for-profit American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) appealed to the Supreme Court. Supreme Court denies redistricting challenges - Political Blotter - Politics in the Bay Area and beyond. By Josh Richman Wednesday, October 26th, 2011 at 12:58 pm in California State Senate, redistricting, U.S. House. The California Supreme Court today unanimously denied two pending petitions challengeing the validity of the state Senate and congressional redistricting maps created and certified by the Citizens Redistricting Commission.
Court tentatively orders Assembly to provide budget records. The Assembly must release member-by-member budgets and related documents under a Sacramento Superior Court ruling Thursday. Judge Timothy M. Alec Ross, Advisor to US Secretary of State - The Diplomacy of Technology.