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Other states joining Florida in revolt against rising property taxes
South Florida Sun-SentinelIn one YouTube video, an elderly woman in Pennsylvania explains how she lost her home because she couldn't afford her taxes. Cartoon characters in another clip mock a New Jersey city official for telling tax critics to move out of town. Florida is far...Tags: Jon Corzine, Pennsylvania, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Alaska, Executive Branch
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High court considers mandatory retirement for judges
HARRISBURG — When Pennsylvania last voted to amend the state Constitution in 1968, it adopted a provision to ensure that judges didn't stay on the bench longer than their minds stayed sharp. On Wednesday, the state Supreme Court heard arguments...Tags: Voting, Montgomery County (Pennsylvania), Lawyers, Tom Corbett, Judges
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Smart meter foes resurrect court fight
Opponents of Naperville's smart meter program have re-filed their federal lawsuit to include more evidence to back up their concerns over health, safety and security and show their constitutional rights are being violated. The amended lawsuit now...Tags: Science and Technology, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Electronics, Politics
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No limits
Last week, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson launched a miniconstitutional revolution by using the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution to strike the individual health care mandate, which everyone regards as the capstone of the Affordable Care Act, aka...Tags: Alpine Skiing, Colleges and Universities, Judges, Disasters and Accidents, Emergency Planning
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Obama knows his way around a ballot
Tribune staff reportersThe day after New Year's 1996, operatives for Barack Obama filed into a barren hearing room of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. There they began the tedious process of challenging hundreds of signatures on the nominating petitions of state...Tags: Voting, Harold Washington, Barbara Flynn Currie, Thomas Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Transcript: Rand Paul's filibuster of John Brennan's CIA nomination
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) delivered a nearly 13-hour filibuster Wednesday of John Brennan’s nomination to lead the CIA. Paul used his time on the floor to question the legality of the White House's policies on drone use, beginning at 11:47 a.m. EST and...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Al-Qaeda, Death Penalty, Public Officials, NBC (tv network)
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Congress must help Bush round up all the suspects
WHAT'S THE difference between being held as a material witness and being detained without trial? Anyone? Anyone? It's a question that has popped up since Sept. 11, when terrorists hijacked four jets and crashed two into the Word Trade Center twin...Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Pennsylvania, Executive Branch, Ku Klux Klan, Local Government
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When layoffs come to L.A. schools, performance doesn't count
![John H. Liechty Middle School opened in 2007 in Los Angeles' impoverished Westlake neighborhood with a seasoned principal, dozens of energetic young teachers and a mission to "reinvent education" in the nation's second-largest school district.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-12/58081414-05151735.jpg "John H. Liechty Middle School opened in 2007 in Los Angeles' impoverished Westlake neighborhood with a seasoned principal, dozens of energetic young teachers and a mission to "reinvent education\" in the nation's second-largest school district.")
John H. Liechty Middle School opened in 2007 in Los Angeles' impoverished Westlake neighborhood with a seasoned principal, dozens of energetic young teachers and a mission to "reinvent education" in the nation's second-largest school district.
The...Tags: Court Preliminary, California, Los Angeles, Lawyers, University of California, Los Angeles
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The First AME Church lesson
The Rev. John J. Hunter of First African Methodist Episcopal Church is receiving forgiveness from at least some of his parishioners for failing to pay federal taxes and for using church credit cards to buy personal luxuries. But Hunter and other members...Tags: Iowa, Jerusalem (Israel), Los Angeles, Church and State Relations, Anglicanism
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Not enough fish in the sea
Times Staff WriterFish counters in green rain slickers patrol a narrow channel of glacier-fed river, keeping close tabs on the thousands of salmon that migrate upstream to spawn. Elsewhere along the coast, observation teams slosh through waterways in waders, carrying...Tags: University of California, Berkeley, California, Conservation, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Companies and Corporations
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