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Showing posts with label legislatures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label legislatures. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 04, 2017

Rural hospital in Tennessee closes

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Ducktown in Polk County in Tennessee ( Wikipedia map) Another rural hospital in a state that did not expand Medicaid has closed. ...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Pa. and Md. districts among those awaiting Supreme Court ruling on gerrymandering

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As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear the Wisconsin case challenging the constitutionality of politically gerrymandered voting distri...
Thursday, December 01, 2016

Federal court orders N.C. to redraw GOP-friendly legislative districts and hold special elections

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"A federal court on Tuesday ordered North Carolina to hold a special legislative election next year after 28 state House and Senate di...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Number of farmers on state legislatures continues to decline; only 4.6% list occupation as agriculture

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The number of farmers in state legislatures continues to decrease, giving the agricultural community fewer voices with firsthand farming exp...
Monday, April 06, 2015

Panel probing charges Ky. congressman used post to help his wife's animal-rights lobbying

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On Friday the House Ethics Committee announced it has opened a formal investigation about Kentucky Republican Rep. Ed Whitfield's poten...
Friday, March 13, 2015

Arkansas bill to record and review closed sessions dies after newspapers oppose revised version

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A bill to require public agencies to record their closed sessions and have the recording reviewed by the local prosecutor has died in the ...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Court filing details how 'dark money' got a mining company what it wanted in Wisconsin

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Not much is publicized about the behind the scenes lobbying that goes on during election season. "But a court filing recently made pu...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

Interactive database gives some idea of partisanship and effectiveness of state legislators in 35 states

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How partisan are your state legislators? How effective are they at attracting co-sponsors for their bills and passing them into law? If you...
Monday, February 24, 2014

As rural share of population declines, so does the rural voice in state legislatures

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Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling, is the only farmer in the Colorado House. (AP photo by Brennan Linsley) Rural lawmakers are in a shr...
Monday, September 09, 2013

Colorado begins recall election of Democratic state senators who supported gun-control legislation

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Colorado voters are turning out in large numbers to cast ballots in a recall election for a pair of Democratic senators who supported g...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Illinois becomes 37th state to raise interstate speed limit to 70; big urban counties can opt out

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Three months after the Illinois Legislature passed a bill that would raise the state's interstate speed limit from 65 mph to 70 mph,...
Friday, July 12, 2013

Alabama rural investigative unit is recovering stolen farm equipment and making arrests

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Alabama is going after criminals targeting farms and farm equipment. The Agriculture Rural Crime Unit, formed June 4, has already made bi...
Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Ohio and New Hampshire are latest states to raise speed limit on some interstates; Illinois still in limbo

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Speed limits were raised from 65 mph to 70 on several stretches of interstates in Ohio on Monday, and the next day New Hampshire Gov. Mag...
Friday, March 29, 2013

Colorado gun-control bill leads gun-rights supporters to call for a hunter boycott of the state

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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper's decision to sign three gun-control laws has gun supporters calling for a national boycott of the stat...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Ohio legislature OKs higher rural speeds, including 60 mph on two-lane state roads outside towns

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Drivers in Ohio would be able to legally drive 70 m.p.h. on rural stretches of interstates under a compromise approved Tuesday by state legi...
Monday, March 18, 2013

Mississippi, tops in obesity, OKs 'anti-Bloomberg' bill

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Mississippi may appear to be pushing to keep its spot as the most obese state in the U.S. The state Legislature passed a bill which says th...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Telephone deregulation bills spark concern about reliability of rural communications in several states

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The cell-phone boom has led many states to deregulate land-line phone providers, allowing them to drop the service, and similar legislati...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Ky. legislative panel advances bill to allow, regulate industrial hemp crops if feds grant state a waiver

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By Al Cross Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues After hearing endorsements from former CIA director James Woolsey and a ...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Over-the-counter drug makers start campaign to tell potential meth 'smurfers' the possible consequences

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The lobby for makers of over-the-counter drugs, which has fought laws to tighten controls on sale of cold medicine that is used to make ...
Friday, April 20, 2012

After battle between doctors and cops, Ky. passes bill to crack down on prescription drug abuse

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A man gets arrested at a pain clinic in Lexington. (By Charles Bertram, Lexington Herald-Leader ) The Kentucky legislature passed a bil...