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Roy teacher needs Facebook votes to win $5K for student lab
Roy - If Maggie Huddleston wins a national award of $5,000 for her science lab, she knows one thing she won’t spend the money on - textbooks. The integrated science teacher at Sand Ridge Junior High doesn’t think books are the best way to teach science. Instead, she likes to be outside doing real-life experiments....
sltrib.com (26 minutes ago)
Senate Democrats' 11-10 majority makes big difference in three votes
The importance of Democrats holding a one-vote majority in the Senate was clearly demonstrated Thursday night when they passed three straight bills by 11-10 margins.
lvrj.com (26 minutes ago)
East Pennsboro Area School Board votes in favor of budget that cuts kindergarten to half-day program
The vote from the board came after more than two hours of discussion in which more than 20 residents urged the board to keep a full-day kindergarten program intact.
pennlive.com (43 minutes ago)
Stop GOP attack on out-of-state college voters: editorial
The Ohio Senate should not go along with House Republicans' attempt to make state universities their partners in suppressing the votes of out-of-state college students, The Plain Dealer editorial board writes.
cleveland.com (1 hour ago)
Vidak slips below 50 percent in vote tally
Andy Vidak is, for now, no longer a senator-elect. The bulk of remaining votes in the 16th Senate District race were counted Friday and at the end of the day, Republican Vidak had dropped below the 50 percent-plus-one-vote margin needed to win the seat outright.
bakersfieldcalifornian.com (1 hour ago)
Zions’ chairman defeats challenge to his leadership
Zions Bancorp’s Harris Simmons on Friday easily beat another proposal to strip the role of chairman from him, when shareholders voted by a margin of two to one to reject the idea. Just 34 percent of the votes cast during the regional bank’s annual shareholder meeting favored activist shareholder Gerald Armstrong’s...
sltrib.com (1 hour ago)
Montgomery County vote recount confirms most of Tuesday election results
NORRISTOWN - The Democratic Norristown at-large council election was the first contest recounted Friday morning at the Montgomery County warehouse for voting machines. In the Tuesday election, Democratic challenger Derrick Perry and incumbent Councilman Marlon Millner were tied at 535 votes in a field of five...
thereporteronline.com (2 hours ago)
Bustos votes for Keystone Pipeline
U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-East Moline, broke ranks this week to vote for the Keystone XL Pipeline, a controversial project for environmentalists but one that will support union jobs. The $5.3 billion project by TransCanada Corp. to
qconline.com (2 hours ago)
Menendez: We don't have 60 votes
One of the chief authors of the Senate's Gang of Eight immigration bill is still hunting around.
politico.com (2 hours ago)
Michel Platini talks to Martin Samuel about Qatar World Cup, Financial Fair Play and goal-line...
Michel Platini votes for Qatar, he expands the European Championship to 24 teams, he spreads the competition across an entire continent in 2020 and introduces financial fair play. Sportsmail's chief sports writer MARTIN SAMUEL goes head-to-head with the UEFA president, a man whose ideas he has been scathing of in...
dailymail.co.uk (3 hours ago)
Illinois House votes to allow residents to carry concealed guns
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (Reuters) - The Illinois House of Representatives on Friday voted overwhelmingly to allow residents to carry concealed guns, taking the state one step closer to joining all others in allowing some form of carrying guns in public.
reuters.com (3 hours ago)
Illinois House votes to allow residents to carry concealed guns
By Joanne von Alroth SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (Reuters) - The Illinois House of Representatives on Friday voted overwhelmingly to allow residents to carry concealed guns, taking the state one step closer to joining all others in allowing some form of carrying guns in public. Illinois is the only state in the nation to...
yahoo.com (3 hours ago)
Europe's centre-left: a programme without frontiers | Editorial
With Munich matched against Dortmund in the Champions League final at Wembley tonight, today is a day to remind us once again that Germans are uncommonly good at football. But they have always been pretty decent at centre-left politics too. No centre-left political party in Europe – and perhaps no centre-left party...
guardian.co.uk (4 hours ago)
Concealed Carry Bill Opposed By Governor Approved In House Vote
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gun owners in the only state still banning concealed weapons would win that right under a plan approved by the Illinois House on Friday, but the governor and other powerful Democrats oppose the plan because it would wipe out local gun ordinances – including Chicago's ban on assault weapons. The...
huffingtonpost.com (4 hours ago)
House Dems push for pre-conference deal on 2014 budget
David M. Drucker The House minority has minimal power, but it is using the few parliamentary tools it can wield to force Republicans to demand a budget agreement with Senate Democrats as a condition for proceeding to a conference committee. House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., acknowledged in an interview that...
washingtonexaminer.com (4 hours ago)
Chandler City Council votes against backyard chickens, then tables issue
Chandler City Council votes against backyard chickens, then tables issue
azcentral.com (5 hours ago)
Capitol Alert: California Senate votes to regulate e-cigarettes
Electronic cigarettes would be subject to the same prohibitions as regular cigarettes under a bill passed Friday by the Senate.Click to Continue »
sanluisobispo.com (5 hours ago)
Mahanoy City only borough with contested mayoral race
There was only one contested race for borough mayor in Schuylkill County in Tuesday's primary election. In Mahanoy City, democrats Dennis Wiessner and Nancy Petritsch competed for votes for a four-year term. Petritsch won with 216 votes to Wiessner's 194
standardspeaker.com (5 hours ago)
Two ways immigration reform could succeed and three ways it could fail
Earlier this week, the Senate immigration bill passed the Judiciary Committee easily, by a 13-5 vote, with three Republican supporters. And odds are looking good on the Senate floor. If Democrats stay unified in favor of the bill (a big if), and if those three Republicans and the two members of the Gang of Eight who...
washingtonpost.com (6 hours ago)
Delta Protection Commission votes against twin tunnels
A small state commission sent a big message late Thursday, voting to oppose the governor's twin tunnels plan before it has even been formally proposed.
recordnet.com (6 hours ago)
Connecticut Senate votes to raise minimum wage
Connecticut's minimum wage workers are moving closer to getting a raise.
norwichbulletin.com (6 hours ago)
WSU votes to limit tuition hike to 2 percent
PULLMAN (AP) - The Washington State University Board of Regents has voted to limit a fall tuition increase to 2 percent, no matter what the Legislature decides concerning the state budget.
columbian.com (7 hours ago)
Niagara-Wheatfield plans cuts for second budget offering
SANBORN – The Niagara-Wheatfield Board of Education voted Wednesday to offer residents a reduced version of the budget that narrowly failed at the polls Tuesday.On June 18, voters will consider a $62.32 million proposal that carries a 4.5 percent increase in the tax levy.Tuesday, a $62.75 million version with a 5.91...
buffalonews.com (7 hours ago)
Mayor announces budget vote schedule
The City Council will cast their first votes on the city's budget June 6, with the second vote coming three weeks later, according to an e-mail sent Friday out by Mayor Kim McMillan.
theleafchronicle.com (7 hours ago)
Fayetteville Dogwood Festival soliciting votes to be top Community Celebration in online contest
The Fayetteville Dogwood Festival could win $10,000 in an online competition sponsored by Johnsonville Sausage.
fayobserver.com (7 hours ago)
Menino praises Markey, but ‘can’t explain’ light schedule
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino formally threw his support behind US Representative Edward J. Markey on Friday, but said he could explain neither the Malden Democrat’s string of missed votes in Congress or decision not to release his tax returns until the Friday of Memorial Day weekend. “I can’t explain that,” Menino...
boston.com (8 hours ago)
Hassan faces big budget gaps after casino, tax hikes fail
PORTSMOUTH - A “disappointed” Gov. Maggie Hassan said Friday recent votes of the state House and Senate will add to the difficulty of making progress on the state’s priorities.
seacoastonline.com (8 hours ago)
WSU votes to limit tuition hike to 2 percent
The Washington State University Board of Regents has voted to limit a fall tuition increase to 2 percent, no matter what the Legislature decides concerning the state budget.
seattletimes.com (9 hours ago)
Boy Scouts of America votes to end century-old ban on gay scouts
GRAPEVINE, Texas (Reuters) - The Boy Scouts of America voted on Thursday to lift a century-old ban on openly gay scouts in a major victory for gay rights activists, but the decision means a sea of change for an organization that depends heavily on faith-based groups.
chicagotribune.com (9 hours ago)
Third term begins for Ecuador's President Correa
Ecuador's Rafael Correa is starting a third term as president under seemingly ideal conditions: extremely high popularity, a more than two-thirds majority in Congress, a stable economy and a badly splintered opposition. The combative leftist economist being inaugurated Friday has built his popularity on generous...
foxnews.com (9 hours ago)
