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Voting Rights Headlines
A list of the most recent stories about Voting Rights.
Colorado Editorial Roundup
A sampling of recent editorials from Colorado newspapers: NATIONAL: The Durango Herald, May 12, on health care transparency, wildly divergent hospital charges and reimbursement rates: While the Affordable Health Care Act that will begin to be implemented at the beginning of 2014 is producing plenty of criticism about what is ...
NYC weighs allowing many immigrants to vote
Agha Saleh came to the United States inspired by democratic ideals, but it took him years to achieve a basic one here: voting. He'd lived through political upheaval in his native Pakistan and was eager to be part of America's storied "government of the people." But for the eight years ...
Music boosts positive message at Girls Rock! camp
Through the whine of guitars and the pounding of drums, a little bit of teenage angst was working its way out on stage. No Direction, a punk band made up of 13- and 14-year-old girls, powered through their original songs about everything from striking out on their own to bad ...
Activists end bus tour for voting rights in Ala.
Montgomery was the final stop Wednesday on a bus tour of Alabama and Mississippi aimed at keeping the 1965 Voting Rights intact. The "Never Forget, Never Again" pilgrimage for voting rights came to the Alabama State House on Wednesday to raise awareness of a pending case before the U.S. Supreme ...
Justice Department OKs ousting Texas school board
State-appointed managers will take over the El Paso Independent School District after the U.S. Department of Justice said it won't oppose ousting the locally elected school board in the wake of a testing scandal at several of high schools. Texas Education Commissioner Michael Williams named the new board of managers ...
17 arrested at NC legislature protest free on bond
All 17 people arrested by North Carolina General Assembly police during a protest against Republican policies were released on bond Tuesday. The state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People led the nonviolent demonstration Monday. They were joined by other activists and more than 30 supporters ...
Highlights from around the Capitol
A proposal to criminalize "ballot harvesting" of mail-in votes roiled partisan tensions in the Texas House on Thursday and shattered a truce between Republicans and Democrats this session that had largely averted divisive voting rights measures. The bill targets what Republicans say is rife with potential voting fraud: political individuals ...
Fast paced debate heard over Voting Rights Act
After hearing arguments Wednesday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court is mulling over the fate of a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Justices heard 70 minutes of fast-paced debate. Meantime, the Democratic leader in the Georgia House believes the provision, which requires Georgia and other states to receive ...
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