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'Safety net' hospitals watching health law impact
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Indiana hospitals that serve as safety nets for the poor and uninsured say they're waiting to see what impact the federal health care overhaul has on their bottom lines. The law will give more people access to insurance...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Healthcare Policies, Medicaid, Health Insurance, Crime, Law and Justice
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What gives with Sandra Day O'Connor?
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor should never have retired from the U.S. Supreme Court. She is an 83-year-old with plenty of energy, which she expends hearing lower-court cases, giving speeches, and making me want to tear my hair out by talking like the...
Tags: Elections, CBS Corp., Voting, The Wall Street Journal, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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GOP rejects gay marriage, asks Supreme Court to uphold Prop. 8
Republican leaders unanimously approved a resolution Friday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Proposition 8, the measure under court review that forbids same-sex marriage in California. The Republican National Committee “affirms its...
Tags: Family, Gays and Lesbians, Elections, Ron Paul, Proposition 8 (California, 2010)
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Jerry Brown vows to produce plan for reducing inmate population
GUANGZHOU, China -- Gov. Jerry Brown said Sunday that his administration will come up with a plan for reducing the state prison population by an additional 10,000 inmates, even as it asks the U.S. Supreme Court to block a judicial order demanding such a...
Tags: Prisons, Regional Authority, Justice System, Jerry Brown, Government
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Md. should repeal sodomy laws
Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller is right that Maryland isn't "the Southern state that [it] used to be" and has become more progressive ("Session ends in a flurry of votes," April 9). Yet, for all the progress that has been made, there remains one...Tags: Social Issues, Maryland General Assembly, Sex Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws
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Gov. Jerry Brown vows fight with judges over prisons
SACRAMENTO — Escalating a dispute with the courts over California's troubled prison system, Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday fired back at federal judges who threatened to hold him in contempt, vowing to "litigate until the Supreme Court tells us that we'...
Tags: Punishment, Jerry Brown, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws
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Republicans pledge to change tone, not positions
With an eye on the White House in 2016, Republicans spent this week in Hollywood mapping a path to a resurgence — determining how to streamline the primary process and close their deficit with Democrats among key voter blocs such as single women and...
Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Elections, Family, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), White House
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Gov. Jerry Brown vows to continue fight over prison conditions
SHANGHAI, CHINA -- Contending there is nothing more California can do to reduce prison crowding without increasing crime on the streets, Gov. Jerry Brown vows to take his case, again, to the same Supreme Court that rebuffed him two years ago. “...
Tags: Prisons, Justice System, Regional Authority, Jerry Brown, Government
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Influence of big-money 'SuperPACs' not so clear
CHICAGO — There's a scary bedtime story on money in politics about how the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling unleashed a tidal wave of corporate cash into politics and drowned out the voices of the little people. But as researchers...
Tags: FreedomWorks, Career and Workplace, Elections, Karl Rove, University at Albany
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CBOE identifies software glitch that halted trading
ReutersThe Chicago Board Options Exchange, which opened for trading three hours late on Thursday, said in a memo to clients that it has found the software issue at fault for the delay. And though it is conducting an "ongoing and thorough internal review of the...Tags: Financial Markets, Stock Activities, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Citadel LLC, Finance
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Ex-Crestwood water operator pleads guilty in contamination case
Tribune reportersA state inspector visiting south suburban Crestwood in 2007 had a question for one of its top water officials: How could the village have pumped out more water than it had claimed to purchase from nearby Alsip? Certified water operator Frank Scaccia...Tags: Prosecution, Lisa Madigan, Crime, Law and Justice, Criminals, Justice System
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Give 'bomb control' a chance
He thought his wife was in love with another man, police say, so James L. McFillin of Baltimore decided to blow up the other man. It was 1979. McFillin wired two sticks of an explosive called Tovex 220 into the electrical system of a truck belonging...
Tags: Firearms, Lobbying, Frank Lautenberg, Gun Control, U.S. Congress
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Apr 26, 2013
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