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Marijuana Legalization Is Decreasing Violent Crime in Border States
In a paper published by The Economic Journal last month, a study by the Norwegian School of Economics in partnership with the Pennsylvania State University Department of Sociology and Criminology, fou ...
06 Jul, 2017
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Recreational Marijuana is Now Officially Legal in Nevada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Cn1zB7610Nevada became the fifth state in the nation -- joining Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington -- to legalize the use and sale of recreational mar ...
03 Jul, 2017
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White House, States Fight over Your Personal Voter Data
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who serves as vice-chair of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Election Integrity, sent a letter to every secretary of state in the US this week asking them ...
30 Jun, 2017
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A Bipartisan No: Governors Say Healthcare Reform Needs Work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ei68aCWupY&t=0m27sThe efforts by a group of Senate Republicans to craft the repeal of Obamacare has come up woefully short, and it not acceptable. So say a group of ...
28 Jun, 2017
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Efficiency Gap: The Greatest Weapon to Fight Partisan Gerrymandering
The fight against gerrymandering nationwide is taking a new turn. Courts are no longer just looking at discrimination based on race, sex, or class, but political discrimination and partisan motives to ...
26 Jun, 2017
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5 Things You Missed This Week In Nonpartisan Election News
From the media blackout of a DNC lawsuit to open primaries to term limits and more, here are 5 things you may have missed in nonpartisan political and election news.1. Media Blackout of DNC ...
19 May, 2017
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Election Integrity Commission: Partisan Politics? Or Real Reform?
Last week, President Trump signed an executive order to establish a commission that will investigate possible voter fraud and voter suppression in the American election system.The executive order outl ...
14 May, 2017
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Colorado One Step Closer to Implementing Open Primaries
On Monday, the Colorado State Senate approved SB 305, a bill that guides the secretary of state on how to write the rules for the state's open primary system, approved by voters under Propos ...
09 May, 2017
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Congress Effectively Legalizes Medical Marijuana at the Federal Level
Last week, Congress avoided a government shutdown by agreeing to a continuing resolution to keep the federal government funded for another week.Then over the weekend, US lawmakers agreed to a deal tha ...
04 May, 2017
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Debriefing Democracy: 5 Takeaways in Nonpartisan News This Week
From the ongoing legal battle against the Commission on Presidential Debates to taking nonpartisan election reform to the nation's largest battleground state, here are 5 key stories on election and po ...
21 Apr, 2017
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