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ByTom Schuba email State Sen. Heather Steans and state Rep. Kelly Cassidy introduced legislation last March to legalize recreational cannabis in Illinois, but the bills failed in both houses of the Legislature. …
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PG&E has informed state regulators that it experienced an incident early Thursday on a major electrical transmission line at a remote site in Butte County just minutes before the reported …
Read MoreIn many US states, Employers are mandated to allow employees time to participate in the electoral process. If participating in early voting, which typically has less than 5min wait times, …
Read More By Tom Angell The federal government wants your input on whether marijuana should be reclassified under global drug treaties to which the U.S. is a party. Marijuana leaf in front …
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By MARK HAND A month before the 2016 election, anti-pipeline activists staged an unprecedented coordinated action to shut down the flow of oil from Canada to the United States. On …
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The global summit for climate change was held on Sept 13-14th in San Francisco, CA. Greeted by protestors, it was an auspicous multi-day event with representatives from around the globe, and …
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Activists, start-ups, and businesses alike warn that a new copyright proposals out of the European Union have the potential to cause significant damage to the european economy and even the …
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There is growing concern of the possibility of a link between earthquakes and intense weather. On September 6, 2018 a magnitude-6.6 quake struck the northern island of Hokkaido, Hokkaido is in northern Japan, …
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Two hundred of the world’s most prominent artists and scientists signed an open letter in French daily Le Monde on Monday calling for urgent political action to address the “global …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations’ human rights experts voiced alarm on Thursday over alleged Chinese political re-education camps for Muslim Uighurs and they called for the immediate release of those …
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