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Pennsylvania Democrats strike out in bid to expand Medicaid to working poor
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Democrats struck out Monday in their attempts to expand government-funded Medicaid health insurance to hundreds of thousands of working poor as part of the federal Affordable Care Act. First up was Sen. Vince Hughes, D-...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Jake Corman, Bucks County, Elections, Republican Party
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State laws varied on gun, abortion laws
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court says women in America can terminate a pregnancy and that every citizen has an individual right to own a firearm, but those rulings have done little to settle political arguments over abortion and guns....
Tags: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Health and Medical Professionals, Gun Control, Social Issues, Judges
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Unitarian teens tour civil rights battlefields
The luggage kept cascading out the back of the two Dodge Grand Caravans as 10 teenagers from Orlando's University Unitarian Universalist Society prepared Monday for a five-day tour of civil-rights memorials and museums. Once everything was secured,...
Tags: Voting Rights Act of 1965, Trips and Vacations, Travel, Human Interest, Civil Rights
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Michigan's first gay couple, married by Odawa tribe, invited to White House
Staff Writer -- bhubbard@petoskeynews.com Twitter: @BrandonHubbardBOYNE CITY — It was a sprint down the aisle for Boyne City's Gene Barfield and Tim LaCroix to become the first same-sex couple to wed when the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians amended their definition of marriage. Now, it will be a...Tags: Family, George W. Bush, Social Issues, Defense of Marriage Act, Services and Shopping
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Gay marriage vote may come to Michigan in 2016
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — With more than half of voters supporting a repeal of Michigan's gay marriage ban, advocates say it's not a matter of if — but when — same-sex marriage is legal in the state. How soon? Gay rights activists plan a...
Tags: Family, Social Issues, Elections, Judges, Rick Snyder
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A LOOK BACK
June 9, 1978: Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood. June 10, 1963: President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at...Tags: Religion and Belief, The New York Times, Labor Legislation, Environmental Issues, Punishment
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Smell of marijuana: Who needs a search warrant when police use their nose?
Who needs a search warrant when you've got a nose? It's a common phrase in South Florida arrest reports: the scent of marijuana wafting from a suspect's vehicle. And while the detail may seem amusing, it's actually a serious legal requirement that...Tags: Theft, Pinellas County (Florida), Palm Beach County, Broward County, Drug Trafficking
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Chicago's gun registry on the ropes
Chicago's 3-year-old gun registry could go away as part of the concealed carry law state lawmakers recently passed, but few are publicly mourning the loss of a database once heralded as a key part of the city's gun control laws. The registry, put in...
Tags: Gun Control, Chicago City Hall, Weaponry, Politics, Firearms
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News media clashes: Columnist swims against the tide on some issues
It goes against the grain to go against the grain, especially when government authorities are slapping journalists around. I have spent my entire adult life nurturing an adversarial relationship, often bitterly adversarial, with government. It is the...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Journalism, Newspapers, Newspaper and Magazine, Elections
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West Virginia's congressional district lines may be challenged again
matthewu@herald-mail.comWest Virginia’s congressional district lines, which were redrawn by state lawmakers in 2011 and challenged unsuccessfully in court, might be challenged again because some say the boundaries do not meet the state’s compactness requirement....Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Elections, West Virginia Legislature, Judges
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Letters: DNA collection done right
Re "Court goes too far on DNA," Editorial, June 4 The U.S. Supreme Court got it absolutely right in finding that it is constitutional for DNA to be collected at the time of arrest and checked against a national database of unsolved cases. The Times'...
Tags: Chemical Industry, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Biotechnology Industry
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Marriage and families
A steady trickle of responses taking issue with reader Lori Graham's letter opposed to same-sex marriage has been coming into The Times' mailbag since the letter was published May 31. It isn't atypical for us to run pieces taking Graham's position, and...Tags: Family, Same-Sex Marriage, Proposition 8 (California, 2010)
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