May 18, 2013It's Official: France Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
French President Francois Hollande signed the country's same-sex marriage and adoption bill into law on Saturday, almost one month after its passage in Parliament that prompted a legal challenge in the country's Constitutional Council by the conservative opposition.
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May 18, 2013100,000 Protest to 'Turn Up Heat' on Rome Gov't
Demonstrators applaud during the left-wing Italian metalworkers' union FIOM rally in downtown Rome Piazza San Giovanni on May 18, 2013. (Filippo Monteforte)Roughly 100,000 protesters marched through Rome on Saturday to say they are fed up with Italy's austerity heavy policies and climbing...
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May 19, 2013Marines screw the pooch by failing to report water threat
A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch’s brew of cancer-causing chemicals. But no one responsible for the lab at the...
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May 19, 2013Obama”s budget: Higher, then lower deficits?
Near-term U.S. deficits under President Barack Obama’s 2014 budget plan would be higher than those forecast by the Congressional Budget Office this week but would be $1.1 trillion lower over the coming decade, CBO said on Friday. The non-partisan congressional budget referee agency said...
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Mother Jones Politics
May 18, 2013How the IRS's Nonprofit Division Got So Dysfunctional
This story first appeared on the ProPublica website.
The IRS division responsible for flagging Tea Party groups has long been an agency afterthought, beset by mismanagement, financial constraints and an unwillingness to spell out just what it expects from social welfare nonprofits, former...
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May 17, 2013The US Murder Rate Is on Track to Be Lowest in a Century
This is fairly preliminary data, but Rick Nevin reports that if current trends keep up, we'll end 2013 with the murder rate in America at its lowest rate in over a century.
America's Real Criminal Element: Lead...
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Organizing for America
May 19, 2013A special delivery for Congress: 1.4 million signatures
More than 1.4 million Americans added their names to Organizing for Action's petition demanding expanded background checks on gun sales. Last week, volunteers (including three survivors of gun violence) went to Washington to hand-deliver those names to Congress.
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May 19, 2013Pledge to call the Senate on Tuesday
This week, the U.S. Senate is getting ready to vote on a bill that would go a long way toward preventing gun violence and making our communities safer. That's because, in the wake of tragedies like the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, people all across the country spoke out to demand action from...
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May 12, 2013Partisan fireworks coming over vote fraud cases?
So far, during the months of investigation into alleged voter fraud in the 2012 election, the two Republicans and two Democrats on the Hamilton County Board of Elections have, for the most part, played nice, with partisan bickering down to a minimum.That could change very quickly Wednesday...
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May 10, 2013Electric power restored at UC, UC Medical Center
A power outage early this morning cut off electric service to the University of Cincinnati main campus and the UC Medical Center, but it was restored before noon.The campus and UC Medical Center were without power from shortly after 8 a.m. until 11:20, according to tweets from the...
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May 9, 2013Woman in vote fraud case seeking plea bargain
A Madisonville woman charged with eight counts of illegal voting over three elections is seeking a plea bargain with the Hamilton County prosecutor's office.Melowese Richardson, 58, who was a poll worker at the Madisonville Recreation Center's polling place last fall, appeared in Hamilton County...
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Innovation Ohio
May 17, 2013New shale report questions fracking’s short term benefit
On Thursday, State officials released the much anticipated 2012 Utica shale production report. Administration officials were quick to celebrate the findings of the report and heralded it as the beginning of a “new boom” in Ohio. Realistically though, this report includes information that...
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May 17, 2013Senate seeks savings by cutting healthcare for pregnant women
Currently the Senate is discussing alternatives to Governor Kasich’s proposed expansion of Medicaid. When discussing the alternatives, Senate President Faber suggested the following as a potential alternative: Current federal rules ban any changes in eligibility for children until 2019....
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May 17, 2013Ohio’s legislature could learn from Texas’ experience
A provision in Ohio’s biennial budget proposes defunding Planned Parenthood. In Ohio Planned Parenthood serves an estimated 100,000 patients each year, and the proposed defunding would reduce access to vital health services. This would leave many women without affordable access to...
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May 17, 2013Faber tries to have it both ways on Internet sweepstakes cafes
On Wednesday, Speaker Batchelder told the media that if the Senate would add an emergency clause to HB 7, a bill that would effectively make Internet sweepstakes cafes an illegal form of gambling in Ohio, he had the votes in the House to sustain it. Which isn’t really that surprising...
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May 15, 2013Rob Portman, noun,verb and a bad month
Poor Rob Portman. It’s not enough that Mitt Romney ignored his faithful traveling companion in Ohio in choosing Paul Ryan as a running mate; it’s not enough that the GOP right-wing is flapping hysterically because of his seismic shift to support gay marriage; it’s not...
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