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Court battle looms over Bibles in Georgia state park cabins
ReutersBy David Beasley ATLANTA, May 15 (Reuters) - A battle over Bibles is brewing in Georgia, where the governor said on Wednesday the books should be allowed to be placed in the bedside table drawers at state-owned vacation properties after an atheist's...Tags: Politics, Executive Branch, Trials, Government, Nathan Deal
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Letters: You can't just lock people up
Re "Another way on prisons," Editorial, May 8 The failure of the public policy that released sick people from hospitals to the streets simultaneously created the homeless crisis and the overcrowding of jails and prisons. Eighteen percent of all Los...Tags: Prisons, Politics, Executive Branch, Government, Jerry Brown
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Pressure Builds At State Capitol Over Budget, Spending Cap
The Hartford CourantTension is mounting at the state Capitol this week as legislators battle over Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposal for a budget that would take effect as he is running in his 2014 re-election campaign. The stakes are high for both Malloy and lawmakers...Tags: Politics, Republican Party, Elections, Government, Wethersfield
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Illinois could allow 17-year-olds to vote in primaries
Clout StreetGov. Pat Quinn and other prospective governor candidates next year might be targeting a new voting group during the Democratic and Republican primary elections: 17-year-olds. The Senate on Wednesday sent to the governor a measure to allow 17-year-olds...Tags: Voting, Executive Branch, Politics, Government, Elections
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Senate leader criticizes Brown's school plan
SACRAMENTO -- Senate leader Darrell Steinberg says that, for all practical reasons, he should support Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to redistribute school funding. His hometown, Sacramento, would benefit. "I should be for it," he told reporters on Wednesday....
Tags: Executive Branch, Politics, Darrell Steinberg, Government, Jerry Brown
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Twin bombs strike Afghan checkpoint near governor's compound, killing 1 police officer
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Two bombs exploded at a checkpoint outside a provincial governor's compound in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least one police officer, an official said. The explosions struck in the early morning in...Tags: NATO, Politics, Afghanistan, Government, Explosions
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La Cañada Unified School District takes on Governor Brown plan
As California's June 30 budget deadline draws near, La Cañada Unified School District officials are partnering with Democratic state legislators and other districts to oppose Gov. Jerry Brown's plan for distributing state money and $6 billion in...Tags: Carol Liu, Politics, Executive Branch, Students, Budgets and Budgeting
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Tom Corbett to replace education secretary with mid-state superintendent
HARRISBURG — Republican Gov. Tom Corbett came into office in 2011 as an unabashed supporter of school vouchers, charter schools and other forms of school choice. When it was time to name an education secretary, he picked someone with the same mind-...Tags: Politics, Steve Samuelson, Government, Bernie O'Neill, Teachers
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Illinois poised to let 17-year-olds vote in primaries
— Gov. Pat Quinn and other prospective governor candidates might be targeting a new voting group during the primary elections next year: 17-year-olds. On Wednesday, the Senate voted 43-9 to allow 17-year-olds to vote in primaries, but only if they...
Tags: Waukegan, Politics, Government, Illinois Governor, Voting
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Lawmakers test Brown's no-tax resolve with calls to hike levies
SACRAMENTO — Releasing his latest budget plan this week, Gov. Jerry Brown repeated his assurance that the tax hikes voters agreed to last fall were enough, that he won't ask them to dig deeper into their pockets any time soon. "We just got a...
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Jerry Brown urges UC to stress graduating students in 4 years
SACRAMENTO — The graduation rates of UC students came under more scrutiny Wednesday as Gov. Jerry Brown urged administrators and faculty to prod more undergraduates to earn a degree in four years, not six. Brown recently proposed giving UC and Cal...
Tags: Politics, AFSCME, Interior Policy, Government, Strikes
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L.A Now Live: Discuss Gov. Brown's hard line in budget proposal
Gov. Jerry Brown took a hard line Tuesday as he unveiled his latest budget plan, seeking to tighten general fund spending and hold firm on his push to redistribute money for schools. He proposed general fund expenditures of $96.4 billion for the...Tags: Politics, Executive Branch, Budgets and Budgeting, Government, Jerry Brown
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