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State Board of Elections Calendar

A primary election for state candidates on September 9, 2014, and a general election on November 4, 2014. Petitions for independent candidates seeking U.S. House seats will be due August […]

PAY NOW OR PAY LATER

There are always the naysayers who deny that global warming is taking place and then there are others who say we can always address this issue later. The determining factor, […]

WHY THE SECOND AMENDMENT?

All this fuss about the Second Amendment and do we really know the genesis of this contentious amendment? The Second Amendment was ratified on December 15, 1791 as part of […]

DOES ANYBODY CARE?

Well there you have it. Ninety percent of the people in this country have told Congress that it is time to do something about background checks on buyers of guns. […]

WOMEN’S EQUALITY AGENDA

The state League and 47 of our local Leagues have signed on as supporters of the Women’s Equality Agenda, which would break down common barriers to equality that women face […]

BAY PARK SAGA CONTINUES: SOUTH SHORE RISING

Bay Park resident Nora Garcia-Osuna described what she found in her backyard after Hurricane Sandy as “mounds of hard, layered, crusted-over sewage” — the likes of which she had never […]