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Immigration: Love across the lines
If and when immigration overhaul is passed, and Nicole Salgado can bring her husband home with her from Mexico, the first thing they’ll do is visit her now 91-year-old grandmother in Syracuse, N.Y. Salgado chokes up as she talks about how her grandmother hasn’t seen ...
Lawsuit challenges Pennsylvania’s gay marriage ban
The American Civil Liberties Union is joining 23 individual plaintiffs in suing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, looking to overturn the state's ban on gay marriage...
Immigration reform must include path to citizenship, Senate Dems say
A group of Senate Democrats have sent a message to Democratic members of the House: Do not back down on the "path to citizenship" in any immigration reform...
Municipalization battle
The political ads were so ubiquitous it was almost like it was a presidential election...
Longmont fractivists overcame $443K campaign to pass ban
As organizers drew together for the campaign to ban fracking in Longmont, they faced a slew of obstacles, from explicit threats of lawsuits by the governor to being out-fundraised by the oil and gas industry by about $18 for every $1 donated to their campaign — and ...
Fiber power
When is a big, bad city government the little guy? When it’s going up against corporations and their trade associations that have shown they aren’t afraid to bend the truth...
A reason to celebrate
The growing corporatization of America, the control that major companies and their lobbyists have over our elected officials, the back-room deals struck between the wealthy and the powerful...
Hostel hostility
A plan to convert the Eldorado Springs Post Office building into a hostel for climbers has gotten some members of the small community up in arms...
Silver lining for organic farmers in Monsanto suit
On June 10, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a ruling in favor of Monsanto in a lawsuit filed against the seed industry giant by Organic Seed Growers & Trade Association (OSGATA), et. al., in 2010...
In Texas Senate, heroine Wendy Davis and Democrats win in the...
The Texas legislature was the star of social media last night, as the Democratic minority mounted a filibuster against a tough anti-abortion law that would have caused more than half of Texas' abortion clinics to close. And after more twists and turns than a Bond ...
Analysis: Supreme Court’s ruling against Voting Rights Act flawed, weak
The Supreme Court's ruling that some parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 are unconstitutional are poorly thought through, Eric Posner writes in a commentary for Slate...
