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Could medical marijuana turn Florida blue in 2014?

January 30, 2014 By Joshua Leclair

This past Monday, the Florida Supreme Court approved a ballot measure to make medical marijuana legal in the state.

“Organize, organize, organize”: 16,000 boost Women’s Economic Agenda

January 30, 2014 By Diane Mohney

Sixteen thousand participants, in a post-State-of-the-Union phone conference Wednesday night, discussed a Women's Economic Agenda for the nation.

Fake checks and Internet scams top 2013 fraud list

January 30, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

The NCL reported that fake checks accounted for almost one in every four (24.23 percent) of scams last year. But Internet scams were not far behind.

Closing wealth gap tops Obama’s State of the Union

January 29, 2014 By John Wojcik

President Obama, in his 2014 State of the Union speech here last night, defined narrowing of the unprecedented wealth gap in America as a major task facing the nation.

Medicaid fight in Virginia takes off

January 28, 2014 By Emile Schepers

The new Democratic governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, is pushing hard for Virginia to sign onto the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) Medicaid Expansion Program.