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• 34 Bihar legislators yet to declare assets

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 533
  Patna, Jan 31 (IANS) Even a month after the deadline expired, 34 legislators in Bihar are yet to declare their assets. And most of them are from the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and BJP combine.The guilty legislators include Public Accounts Committee chairman Lalit Kumar Yadav, and former ministers Raghvendra ...
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• New Hampshire Legislators Taking on Credit Card Fees – Business Focus – Convenience Store News

  
  PHILCHAR — Authority: 136
  Tweet Share CONCORD, N.H. — The convenience store industry — and the retail industry as a whole — contends with many issues on daily basis, but the one that seems to be a major sticking point is swipe fees. New Hampshire state legislators are tackling the issue this session, considering a bill that would ...
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• New Andhra ministers get portfolios

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 533
  Hyderabad, Jan 20 (IANS) The deadlock over portfolios to the two new cabinet ministers in Andhra Pradesh was resolved Friday after the erstwhile Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) agreed to accept what the Congress offered.C. Ramachandraiah has been given endowments portfolio while G. Srinivasa Rao will look after ...
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• Google Collected 4.5 Million Anti-SOPA Signatures Today

  
  Crazy For Tech - Gadgets,Cell Phones,Cameras — Authority: 142
  Google generally gets in hot water when it is thought to be abusing its pole position in the search industry. But it’s no use denying that while some moves skirt the edges of abusing monopoly, others are more than welcome. During natural disasters, for instance, Google has provided helpful links and resources for ...
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• No I wont pledge to vote YES on bills I havent read

  
  Voices Carry — Authority: 397
  Last week I subjected myself to a little fuss on Facebook because of my refusal to sign a " pledge to restore the rights of the people and the authority of the State Legislature by voting FOR measures that REPEAL ObamaCare (the Affordable Health Care Act) in total or in part ." Click the link above (pdf alert) and ...
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• Legislators oppose Armenian genocide bill (AP)

  
  PCT Thailand's Free Expatriates Blog — Authority: 147
  Legislators oppose Armenian genocide bill (AP) AP – A French Senate panel dealt a blow Wednesday to the government’s plans to make it illegal to deny that mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago amounted to genocide. Legislators oppose Armenian genocide bill (AP)
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• SOPA, Internet regulation, and the economics of piracy

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 131
  Earlier this month, I detailed at some length why claims about the purported economic harms of piracy, offered by supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT-IP Act (PIPA), ought to be treated with much more skepticism than they generally get from journalists and policymakers.  My own view is that ...
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• Rebel Congress members refuse to meet Andhra speaker

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 533
  Hyderabad, Jan 18 (IANS) A group of 17 legislators loyal to YSR Congress Party have refused to appear before Andhra Pradesh assembly Speaker N. Manohar in response to his notices, and maintained that they should be disqualified.The speaker had summoned 16 rebel legislators of the ruling Congress and one of the Praja ...
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• Legislators Oppose Armenian Genocide Bill

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 164
  http://abcnews.go.com Legislators Oppose Armenian Genocide Bill French Senate panel opposes bill to criminalize denial of Armenian genocide published date:Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:11:21 -0500
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• Manipur legislators have whooping assets

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 533
  New Delhi, Jan 18 (IANS) Close to Rs.1 crore is the average increase in assets registered by Manipur legislators re-contesting the elections, data compiled by a think tank here says.According to data from the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election Watch (NEW), on an average each recontesting ...
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• Virginia lawmaker: Children with disabilities are God’s punishment to women who previously had abortions.

  
  LiberalFix.com — Authority: 129
  By Amanda Terkel on thinkprogress.org; On Thursday, Virginia State Delegate Bob Marshall (R) spoke at a press conference against state funding for Planned Parenthood. He blasted the organization for supporting a women’s right to choose, saying that God punishes women who have had abortions by giving them disabled ...
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• Off to a slow start: 2012 SD Legislature

  
  Voices Carry — Authority: 397
  Last week journalist Bob Mercer expressed slight frustration in a post titled;  Is This Why We Have A Legislature? The state House of Representatives this afternoon had only one item on its Friday calendar of business. That was a commemoration recognizing the Yellowboy rifle, a .44-caliber lever-action made by ...
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• Wikipedia’s blackout looms

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 164
  http://www.guardian.co.uk Wikipedia’s blackout looms Website founder Jimmy Wales calls for ‘public uprising’ against Sopa, the proposed US internet piracy lawsMillions of students, fact hunters and general knowledge buffs are set to receive a shockon Wednesday when the digital encyclopaedia ...
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• Rep. Martin Kiar will seek Broward County Commission seat

  
  Naked Politics — Authority: 135
  Six years in the state Legislature is enough for state Rep. Marty Kiar. The Democrat from Davie will leave the House in 2012 to seek an open seat on the Broward County Commission being vacated by the term-limited Ilene Lieberman of Lauderhill. "Its always been my dream to serve on the County Commission," said Kiar, ...
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• Pipa

  
  Smoat — Authority: 144
  Wikipedia to black out tomorrow to protest anti-piracy bills – Daily News and Analysis The decision to “go dark” came after three days of discussions by 1800 Wikipedians over proposed actions that the community could take against SOPA and PIPA, illustrating the “level of concern” Wikipedians feel about the ...
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• Legislators consider creating state bank (Washington State)

  
  InvestmentWatch: Emerging markets, Real Estate, Personal finance, Business management, Politics, Economics — Authority: 148
  OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) – State government stores money at Bank of America, buys goods with U.S. Bank cards, and distributes welfare aid through JP Morgan Chase ATMs. Supporters of cutting such ties to big banks say the first step is creating the state’s own bank. The idea of a state bank – a favorite of the ...
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• Mysterious mailers, Spanish-language robocalls: The Miami Republican redistricting battle is on

  
  Naked Politics — Authority: 135
  Eight months before Election Day, state Rep.  Ana Rivas Logan  -- who has yet to draw an opponent -- is getting attacked in campaign fliers purportedly sent by an inactive political committee whose chairman is dead.  Blame redistricting.  Logan is one of several local state representatives whose new legislative ...
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• New Leaders Take the Reins to Reign in 2012

  
  The Thicket at State Legislatures — Authority: 477
  by Tim Storey By the end of this week, 38 legislatures will be officially in session including several operating with new leaders. The most notable leadership changes are in the Mississippi House and the Virginia Senate where 2011 elections led...
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• Chouhan patronising illegal mining in Madhya Pradesh: Congress (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 533
  Bhopal, Jan 16 (IANS) The opposition Congress in Madhya Pradesh Monday claimed that a team of its legislators had found large-scale illegal sand mining in Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s assembly constituency Budhni.Chouhan denied knowledge of any such activity. “They (Congress) are making blind ...
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• BSP’s denial of tickets to lawmakers shows guilt: Congress

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 533
  New Delhi, Jan 16 (IANS) The Congress Monday said Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati’s denial of poll tickets to nearly half of her party legislators was a “big and important” admission of corruption.Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has admitted that more than ...
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