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Crime Reduces at Steeper Rate in States Allowing Medical Marijuana, Study Says
Despite police fears that legal marijuana businesses attract crime, including under-the-table drug dealing, weapons violations, and robberies, a new study says the opposite might be the case.Researche...
Delaware, Vermont Not Likely to Send a Woman to Congress in 2014
In Rebecca Traister’s fantastic book, Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election That Changed Everything for American Women, she identified 2008 as a truly groundbreaking year. It was the year that a woman won...
Iowa Could Send Its First Woman to Congress; Slim Prospects in Mississippi
Last week, I wrote about gender parity by state in the U.S. Congress. One of the more astounding facts from that research was that the United States ranks 77th in the world by percentage of legislativ...
Bridging the Gender Gap: 4 States Have Yet to Send a Woman to Congress
With International Women’s Day this past weekend, across the world there were displays of support for women. In Montevideo, Uruguay, the government dedicated a stamp to Luisa Cuesta, who has fought fo...
Do You Know the Difference between Marijuana and Hemp?
Video embedded from BenSwann.comWhen many people hear industrial hemp, the first thing that may come to mind in marijuana. After all, there is a close association between the two, but perhaps not as c...
A More Inclusive Presidential Primary Would Motivate Voters to Participate
It seems that in every cycle there is debate about which states should hold the first presidential primary elections. Some state always seems to try to jump ahead of Iowa and New Hampshire. Since 1972...
How Do I Vote? Everything You Need to Know by State
Table of Contents State-by-state Information How Do Primaries Work? Partisan v. Nonpartisan Closed (Partisan) Semi-Closed (Partisan) Open (Partisan) Open (Nonpartisan) Variants of Traditional Election...
Raising The Minimum Wage: Income Equality or Job Killer?
Massachusetts passed the first wage law in 1912, followed soon after by thirteen more states and the District of Columbia. However, the Supreme Court ruling in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United ...
Election Reform, Economy Top Priorities for Bernie Sanders in 2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQj0NmjrCOUIndependent Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, went on the record Monday with his top priorities for 2014. In his video, "Plant Your Flag," Sen. Sanders ou...
7 Most 'Independent' Politicians in 2013
2013 was an 'off' year politically for the vast majority of Americans. There was no presidential election where one-liners like "I've got binders full of women" or "you didn't build that" were drille...