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Lawmakers compromise on immigrant driver's licences
It can be difficult to understand exactly what the six-member Joint Budget Committee is doing, but on Wednesday the proceedings...
Jane Dougherty and Tom Sullivan watched from the gallery Monday as the Senate debated and then approved a bill that would repeal the 15-round magazine ban...
House bans conversion therapy
The American Psychiatric Association officially began opposing "conversion" or "reparative" therapy, the the psychological practice that tries to turn homosexuals into heterosexuals,...
An infringement of constitutional rights; stricter legal controls that criminals will break anyway; a registry that could make specific citizens vulnerable to a hostile government...
When should the cops get to take your money? After a red-light camera catches your car mid-intersection? While they're investigating your dad's business? Lawmakers heard...
Powdered alcohol paying for the sins of pot
Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee gave hesitant bipartisan support to HB 1031, a bill that once proposed to...