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...saying that we should take a foreign-policy stance; I'm saying it's not a good place to invest our money.' JOEL ANDERSON, California assemblyman, about a bill he wrote that would ban the state's investment in Iran. When he introduced the bill in January, he called Iran's finances 'the mother's milk of terrorism...
JOEL ANDERSON, California assemblyman, about a bill he wrote that would bar California's investment in Iran; when he introduced the bill in January, he called Iran's finances "the mother's milk of terrorism...
...Late last month, California Assemblyman Jim Levine introduced the bill, which would ban traditional incandescent bulbs from California by 2012. The goal is to force Californians to replace their scalding-hot, energy-wasting bulbs with more efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs). You might’ve seen these new bulbs: they look like a fluorescent tube-shaped bulb curled up into a small coil about the size of, well, a light bulb. (As I look up from my computer, I’m happy to report that the chandeliers in the Adams House library are all using CFLs...
...week and a half before the Harvard-Yale Game, Law School alum Eliot Spitzer captured the New York governorship previously held by Eli George Pataki. The Democrat Spitzer won 69 percent of the vote in a race against a little-known Republican former state assemblyman...
...periods say it's important to provide an alternative for parents who try to keep their newborns but become dangerously overwhelmed. "If the baby's being abused, don't we want to save that baby too?" says Dawn Geras of Save Abandoned Babies in Chicago. Alberto Torrico, the state assemblyman who sponsored California's 30-day extension, and Donne Trotter, a state senator who pushed the later deadline in Illinois, agree. They argue that parents should have time to decide if they are fit. "The reality of raising a baby really dawns on you once you get it home," Torrico...