By Eric Boehm | PA Independent
HARRISBURG — The divides, they keep on coming, sort of.
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Could Houston school trustees’ ethics rules go from maligned to model?
May 02, 2012
By Mike Cronin | Texas Watchdog HOUSTON — Superintendent Terry Grier and board President Mike Lunceford are in favor of helping theHouston schools create what would be some of the strongest rules nationwide governing the relationships between trustees and campaign donors doing business with the district.
Oklahoma court slaps down personhood initiative
May 02, 2012
By Patrick B. McGuigan | CapitolBeatOK OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma state Supreme Court on Monday, April 30 slapped down Initiative Petition No. 395 – the Personhood Initiative – a proposed state constitutional amendment which might have been on the November general election ballot if advocates had garnered sufficient valid signatures.
Feds accuse ex-IL suburban top cop of laundering $1.25M
April 20, 2012
By Jayette Bolinski | Illinois Statehouse News
SPRINGFIELD — A former Country Club Hills police chief was arraigned on federal charges Friday for allegedly laundering a $1.25 million state grant in 2009 and using it to pay off personal debt.
Week in review: WI election season in full swing
April 13, 2012
By Kirsten Adshead | Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON – It’s always election season in Wisconsin, and this week was no different.
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- Primary colors: Expert says GOP stood up in WI recall test run
- United Nations on trial in KS Legislature
- WI recalls complicate absentee voter laws, military vote
- IL House votes to end free health care for state retirees
- IL Senate leader wants biz to make tax returns public
- Audit: Employee used investments by College Illinois! for personal gain
- Voter fraud among noncitizens in FL? Lawmakers feel vindicated
- Establishment picks faces off in FL’s 22nd District
- PA House to be critical of Senate’s budget plan
- We Are Ohio, but just barely
- House moves to repeal sprinkler mandate for PA homes
- Pa. Gov. Corbett wants to roll back pay increase for unionized state employees
- Pennsylvania Castle Doctrine passes state House, again
- PA policy change aims to limit food stamp eligibility
- Smoke and mirror obscure KS business data
- Rasmussen: Raese 50 Percent, Manchin 43 Percent
- U.S. jobs plunged to decade low in first quarter
- Pennsylvania still only state without natural gas severance tax
- Chamber of Commerce confers on public pensions
- Pelosi, Obama Hawaiian vacations end; taxpayers left with bill
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