STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — This is the land of die-hard Democrats — mill workers, coal miners and union members. They have voted party line for generations, forming a reliable constituency for just about any Democrat who decides to run for office….
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/us/politics/4-years-later-race-is-still-issue-for-some-voters.html?_r=1&hp
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Republican Gov. Bill Haslam Wednesday vetoed a measure that tried to force Vanderbilt University to exempt student religious groups from its nondiscrimination policy. It was his first veto since taking office in 2010….
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LOS ANGELES — The weekend checkpoints set up along intersections here were always meant to catch those who had had too much to drink. In an operation intended to be equal parts deterrent and enforcement, the police would stop every car, testing drivers suspected of being under the influence of alcohol or drugs….
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Lansing— A labor group’s use of college students to stage Friday night protests outside an Italian restaurant in Dearborn could cost the University of Michigan millions in taxpayer funding.
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The state Senate approved legislation Monday afternoon targeting Vanderbilt’s all-comers policy on a 19-12 vote.
The Senate approved Senate Bill 3597, which originally barred only the University of Tennessee and Tennessee Board of Regents systems from adopting all-comers, after it was expanded to include Vanderbilt. A similar effort is under way in the state House of
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — At first glance, the Brightwood neighborhood in this central New England city would seem to have little in common with war-torn villages in Iraq or Afghanistan….
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/us/springfield-mass-fights-crime-using-green-beret-tactics.html?_r=1&ref=us
Immigration from Mexico is at a standstill and seems likely to stay down for a while. Continuing efforts to militarize the border will yield diminishing returns and take energy away from comprehensive reform.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-adv-pew-20120501,0,4438079.story
In early April, an anti-immigrant bill like those that swept through legislatures in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina was stopped cold in Mississippi. That wasn’t supposed to happen. Tea Party Republicans were confident they’d roll over any opposition. They’d brought Kris Kobach, the Kansas Secretary of State who co-authored Arizona’s SB 1070, into Jackson, to
MIAMI — When Senator Marco Rubio first floated his compromise version of the Dream Act — the bill, now stalled, that would grant some students in the United States illegally a path to citizenship — the chances of reviving the politically charged issue in Congress seemed as dim as the chances of snuffing out attack
THE ISSUE: Democrats and Republicans are offering very different versions of the DREAM Act, involving the legal status of young people raised in this country, but whose parents came to the country illegally. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is proposing “DREAM ACT 2.0” which would offer them temporary non-immigrant visas.
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