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District of Columbia: Where The Feds Will Take Your Money But Won't Give You Representation
In the United States, every citizen over the age of 18 has the right to vote a congressman or congresswoman into office to represent the interests of his or her district -- except for roughly 650,000 ...
26 Jun, 2015
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Government of a Few: New Data Shows Just How Broken Our Democracy Really Is
FairVote on June 12 released Government of the Few in the “Decided Dozen" -- Frozen Representation and the Distorted Demographics of Decisive Primary Elections. Report authors Andrew Douglas and Zack ...
19 Jun, 2015
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Outrage over Religious Freedom Laws Expands Nationwide; Alters Future Elections
Controversy over Indiana's "Religious Freedom Restoration Act" is being heralded as a bellwether for national opinion by some LGBT advocates.The bill gave businesses the right to deny service to someo ...
24 Apr, 2015
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Idaho Senate Says Yes to Cannabidiol Oil As a Treatment for Epilepsy
Update: After reconsidering the legislation, a committee in the Idaho House approved the cannabidiol oil bill in a 12-4 vote. Idaho is not a place one would expect to see bipartisanship. Reg ...
03 Apr, 2015
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Looking to the Founders: Capital Punishment
Last week, the Utah House reignited the capital punishment controversy by approving a measure to bring back the firing squad as a legal form of execution in response to growing court challenges o ...
20 Feb, 2015
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5 U.S. Senators To Watch in the 114th Congress
The 114th Congress is now in session and the environment is decidedly Republican. The GOP took control of both chambers of Congress after the midterm elections, in which only 36 percent of voters part ...
12 Jan, 2015
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Jackson Hole Summit Renews Debate on Federal Reserve Monetary Policy
In late August, economists, scholars, and central bankers from across the world gathered in Jackson Hole, Wyoming to make sense of current economic indicators and to plot a path forward for monetary a ...
04 Sep, 2014
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IVN Daily Digest -- August 4, 2014
1. The Columbian says Washington state's top-two primary system is on the "cutting edge.""Washington is blessed to have a top two primary, meaning that two candidates in each race will advance, regard ...
04 Aug, 2014
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What Happens if the Highway Trust Fund Gets Too Low?
By the time Dwight David Eisenhower became president of the United States, he had already secured historical immortality as the supreme commander of the victorious Allied Forces in the Second World Wa ...
15 Jul, 2014
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IVN Daily Digest -- July 10, 2014
1. The editorial board of Wyoming's Casper Star-Tribune supports a lawsuit challenging the state's heavy restrictions on third party fundraising."In Wyoming, the time period for fundraising is tied to ...
10 Jul, 2014
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