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As the Durango Herald’s Joe Hanel reports: The unanimous vote for House Bill 1001 in the Legal Services Committee was a stark contrast to two years ago, when a bill to do away with seniority-based job protections for teachers led to a civil war within the Democratic Party. The bill pitted supporters of teachers unions […]

Summarizing ballot initiatives around the country yesterday, the Washington Post reports: Ohioans voted Tuesday to repeal a Republican-backed law that restricted collective bargaining for public workers, while Mississippi voters blocked an amendment that would have defined a fertilized egg as a person. The union victory in Ohio and the defeat for the “personhood” amendment in […]

We wrote earlier this week that the April 4 civil rights rallies could mark a pivotal moment in the 2012 election cycle. As we said on Monday: When the 2012 elections heat up next summer, we may be looking back at this day as a tipping point in gains by Democrats at the ballot box. […]

Massive civil rights rallies have been planned for today across the country (Denver’s rally is at 5:30 at City Park) to coincide with the anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As The New York Times reports: Labor unions and civil rights groups, joined by many other liberal organizations, are holding hundreds […]