LA Council May Vote on Marijuana Ordinance
The Los Angeles City Council could vote on a highly-anticipated marijuana ordinance that would significantly reduce the number of medical marijuana dispensaries. A vote in favor of the new guidelines would end a bottleneck that resulted in hundreds of marijuana clinics cropping up across the nation’s second largest city. City officials estimate as many as [...]
Kentucky Govt. Group Spends on Booze, Strippers
An audit found that a Kentucky government group spent millions of dollars on alcohol, sports tickets, strippers, and other concerning expenses over the last three years. The Kentucky Association of Counties is a nonprofit group, funded primarily by public money that is intended to advocate for the state’s hundred and twenty counties. A report released [...]
Democrats Need Unity on Health Care Bill
Democrats are still attempting to find a strategy that will allow them to push the planned health care overhaul through by the end of this year. One day after Harry Reid, Majority Leader, announced that the health care bill would include the option of a government health insurance plan, a number of moderates in his [...]
Pelosi says Health Bill to Address Antitrust
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said that she’ll be including a measure that removes health insurers’ federal antitrust exemption in the upcoming sweeping health care legislation. Pelosi made her announcement on Thursday, which was a day after Senate Democratic leaders said they would take the same step with the Senate’s health care overhaul bill. [...]
Schwarzenegger to Discuss Water Deal
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other legislative leaders have planned a seventh straight day of water negotiations Monday, as the governer called lawmakers for a special session on the state’s water problems. “Over the past few days we have made enough progress in our negotiations that I am calling a special session on water,” said Schwarzenegger. [...]
Cuban Spy Seeks Reduced Sentence
Posted by John Fiore on October 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment
A federal judge in Miami, Florida will decided whether or not to approve a reduction of the twenty-year sentence for a convicted Cuban spy. A United States court of appeals threw out last year’s sentencing of life in prison as unjustifiably harsh, and changed fifty-year-old Antonio Guerrero’s prison term to twenty years. Guerrero is a [...]
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