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No Happy New Year for California’s budget
December 28, 2009After coping with over $60 billion in budget shortfalls this year, Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to propose draconian new budget cuts.
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Republican vs. Republican
December 28, 2009There he was on Christmas Eve: Senator John Kyl, pumped with anger, calling the just passed Senate health care reform bill "a massive, very bad assault on liberty."
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Senate health care vote lays the groundwork
December 24, 2009Health care reformers applauded the Senate's vote for a health care reform bill, calling it "groundwork" for expanding and improving the health care system in the weeks and months ahead.
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Mexico City approves gay marriage
December 24, 2009By a vote of 31 to 24 with nine abstentions, the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District, the jurisdiction to which Mexico City belongs, has passed legislation authorizing gay marriage.
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Bronx community takes on the real estate industry
December 24, 2009Who said you can't beat City Hall? In a predominantly Hispanic working-class New York neighborhood, people organized against powerful business interests allied with City Hall, and they won.
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