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CA: CalSTRS displeased by Facebook's lack of women on board
By Dale Kasler, The Sacramento Bee CalSTRS has issues with Facebook Inc. as the social networking giant prepares its epic initial public stock offering.
MA: Hacker group -- BPD will pay for Occupy evictionBy O'Ryan Johnson, Boston Herald
The Internet vigilante group Anonymous refuses to give up on its stranglehold of the Boston police website and is likely to strike again in revenge for cops evicting Occupy campers from Dewey Square, a man who claims to be the unofficial spokesman for the hacker collective told the Herald yesterday.MD: Md. bill aims to strengthen distracted driving lawsBy Staff, The Sun (Baltimore)
Maryland lawmakers want to enable police to pull someone over if they are talking on a handheld cell phone while driving.ME: Maine wins $600,000 to connect behavioral health groups to digital record exchangeBy Staff, Bangor Daily News
Maine is one of five states each receiving a $600,000 grant to support sharing of electronic health records among behavioral and medical health providers.MI: Bill would ban 'virtual voting,' requiring elected leaders to be present at meetings to make decisionsBy Dave Murray, mlive.com
Elected leaders would be banned from "virtual voting" – taking part in public meetings through telephone calls or Internet video conferencing -- under a bill being considered by the state House committee.
OH: Kasich on Ohio -- 'We're alive again'By Joe Vardon, The Columbus Dispatch
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — A $10 million program to boost the state's broadband speeds tenfold and establish a $2.3 million broadband testing center at Ohio State University was the pre-eminent policy announcement Gov. John Kasich made in his State of the State address yesterday — historic for its circumstance but ripped by Democrats for being short on specifics.TN: Tennessee Senate delays bill on Amazon taxesBy Andy Sher, Chattanooga Times Free Press
A bill requiring Amazon.com to begin collecting Tennessee sales taxes on items sold to Tennesseeans starting in 2014 has been delayed for a week.VA: Amazon in talks with Virginia about tax deal, lawmaker saysBy Julian Walker, The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk)
As retailers from around the state lobbied lawmakers to end a sales tax loophole for online merchants, a state senator said one of the biggest beneficiaries, Amazon.com, is in talks with state officials about a tax deal.
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DE: Water-treatment program again fighting for fundingBy Wade Malcolm, The News Journal (New Castle-Wilmington)
Last year, the Environmental Training Center enrolled about 2,100 students. The facility at Delaware Technical Community College's Georgetown campus teaches employees from government and private industry how to manage wastewater and sewage treatment.FL: Senate committee rejects plan to nix 'nuclear tax'By Mary Ellen Klas, Tampa Bay Times
Some call it a nuclear tax. Others call it a fee. Whatever the name, Florida legislators decided Monday that they don't want to take it off the electricity bills of Progress Energy customers — even though the company has given no guarantee it will build the nuclear plants the money is being collected to construct.FL: Ban Florida's Internet gambling cafesBy Staff, Tampa Bay Times
The Florida House may have shut down debate about destination casinos for this year, but now lawmakers need to heed Gov. Rick Scott's call and also shut down the state's unregulated Internet cafe industry.IL: Quinn signs Chicago speed camera billBy The Associated Press, Northwest Indiana Times (Munster)
Chicago will be able to use automatic speed enforcement cameras to monitor drivers around the city's parks and schools and issue up to $100 tickets to motorists under a law signed Monday by Gov. Pat Quinn.MD: Citing 'free speech,' attorney seeks dismissal of charges against HensonBy Luke Broadwater, The Sun (Baltimore)
A defense lawyer asked a Baltimore judge Monday to throw out election fraud charges against veteran political consultant Julius Henson, arguing that Henson was exercising his right to free speech when he composed a misleading Election Day robo-call.NH: Bedford auto parts maker is closing its doors todayBy Kathy Remillard, The Union Leader (Manchester)
BEDFORD, N.H. — Flo-Pro Inc., a Bedford car component manufacturing company, will close its doors at the end of business today, putting more than 100 people out of work.OR: Attempt to criminalize tweets that solicit law-breaking fizzles in Oregon LegislatureBy Harry Esteve, The Oregonian (Portland)
It was dubbed the "flash mob" bill when it got a hearing Monday at the Oregon Legislature -- a proposal to make it a felony to summon people by Twitter or email to commit a crime at a designated place.RI: Chafee tells EDC board he wants to take back control of energy fundBy Kate Bramson, The Providence Journal
Governor Chafee wants his administration to take back control of a $5.8-million energy fund that the state's Economic Development Corporation has used to lure businesses to Rhode Island, encourage local firms to install solar-power systems and entice Toray Plastics (America) Inc. to expand its Quonset Point facility rather than its operations in Virginia.WV: Senate OKs texting ban billBy Eric Eyre, Charleston Gazette
A proposed ban on sending text messages and using a cellphone while driving in West Virginia moved a step closer to becoming the law on Monday.WV: Broadband oversight proposedBy Eric Eyre, Charleston Gazette
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CA: Red-light cameras boost coffers, rile drivers
By Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle California has the most expensive red-light camera tickets in the world - the fine is so steep that one camera in Oakland generates more than $3 million a year - and a Fremont man is launching a protest group to do something about that.CT: Malloy outlines changes for tech schoolsBy Linda Conner Lambeck, Connecticut Post
The state's technical high school system would get a boost in funding, a new board and programs more tailored to the needs of employers under proposals outline Friday by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.DE: A casino on your computer?By Doug Denison, The News Journal (New Castle-Wilmington)
When the U.S. Department of Justice issued a relatively brief memorandum recently, it sent state officials, industry leaders and pundits scrambling to make sense of what could be a major step toward legal Internet gambling.
MD: Election fraud trial of Ehrlich consultant Henson set for MondayBy Luke Broadwater, The Sun (Baltimore)
The election fraud trial of long-time political consultant Julius Henson is set for Monday at 2 p.m. in Baltimore Circuit Court. Henson, 62, of East Baltimore, is accused of election fraud, conspiracy to violation election laws and failure to provide a campaign authority line on an Election Day 2010 robocall he created as a consultant for former Gov.Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.MN: What's news in Minn. politics, with Twitter's helpBy The Associated Press, Brainerd Daily Dispatch
Minnesota got ready for its GOP presidential campaign close-up and a member of Gov. Mark Dayton's administration got sacked.RI: R.I. officials want new law against online impostorsBy The Associated Press, The Providence Journal
Rhode Island already has laws designed to prevent online crime, but two state officials say the laws are not keeping pace with technology.VT: Eco-Machine might provide pathway toward turning wastewater into a useful resourceBy Tim Johnson, Burlington Free Press
Of all the notable features of the University of Vermont's newly refurbished Aiken Center — the wood trim milled from local trees, the automated fresh-air supply, the solarium — perhaps the most unusual is a showcase-in the-making, right off the front entrance: the wastewater treatment facility.VT: $18 million computer system fails DMVBy Terri Hallenbeck, Burlington Free Press
Since 2006, Vermont has laid out more than $18 million for a Department of Motor Vehicles computer system that barely works. The system was once touted as a state-of-the art solution. Instead, the state is largely relying on a 40-year system that lacks the ability to provide the immediacy needed in the world of driver records and auto registrations.WV: Lawmakers navigate social media, lobby banBy Lawrence Messina, The Associated Press, Charleston Gazette
In this era of Twitter and smartphones, citizens and lobbyists alike have all sorts of ways to reach out to lawmakers at a moment's notice. But the West Virginia Legislature has rules meant to insulate its members from last-minute pressures while they're debating and voting on bills.
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