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American Legislative Exchange Council far from nonpartisan (Allentown Morning Call) ALEC & For-Profit Health Industry Embrace GOP Bill Despite Opposition from Doctors & Nurses (Democracy Now!) Electric Utility Executives Pony up for the GOP Roll Back of Environmental Protections (DeSmog) Legislature needs to get serious about minimum wage (Albuquerque Journal) Gold & Silver PAC March 2017 e-Newsletter: Tax Edition (CoinWeek) Don't Let the Kochs Buy Our Democracy (The Keene Sentinel) Hey, wouldn't it be cool to have a constitutional convention? Oh, hell no (Salon) Bill that would prevent local government ban on Airbnb passes committee (WISH-TV) Bipartisan criminal-justice reform bills working through Arizona Legislature (AZCentral) Criminal justice reform task force and other reform bills advance in Florida Senate (Florida Politics) Final plate of Eggs and Issues served Bipartisan criminal-justice reform bills working through Arizona Legislature (Spencer Daily Reporter) New Anti-Protesting Legislation: A Deeper Look (Truth-Out) Pruitt Emails Reveal Communications with ALEC and Koch Groups (EXPOSEDbyCMD) ALEC Embraces Trumpism (EXPOSEDbyCMD) A wrong-headed Maryland bill attacks local worker-friendly legislation (Washington Post) Ava DuVernay on Her Oscar-Nominated Documentary 13th and Resistance Through Art (TIME) Trump's EPA making American dirty again (Greeley Tribune) Wisconsin Senate passes bill limiting union influence (Minneapolis Star Tribune) The Empress Has No Clothes (Huffington Post) How the Left's Long March Back Will Begin in the States (Moyers & Company) House GOP Renews War On Workers With 'Right-To-Work' Bill (Huffington Post) Opponents cite ALEC influence on measure to restrict local governments (Workday Minnesota) How the Left's Long March Back Will Begin in the States (In These Times) Investigation Reveals the Extent the Koch Empire Is Willing to Go to Take Over a University (AlterNet) Academic accountability: How do ESAs measure up? (Arizona Education News Service) The Koch Brothers Are Attacking New Mexico Solar. Here's How Lawmakers Can Fight Back (Huffington Post) RAN Statement On Tillerson Confirmation (Oil and Gas Online) 13th Takes an Important Look at the 13th Amendment (Nashville Scene) Hurting special-needs students (United Federation of Teachers) Penn State professor explains chilling effect Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ has on academia: ‘It smells like fascism’ (Raw Story) Letter: Republican conceit (Sioux Falls Argus Leader) ALEC pushing to convene a constitutional convention (DC Urban Moms and Dads) Betsy DeVos' spokesperson, Ed Patru, works for a Washington "crisis management" firm that specializes in building "astroturf" groups (Eclectablog) Jim Hightower: Billionaires want to tamper with Constitution (Winston-Salem Journal) Donald Trump Puts Coal Lobbyist in Charge of Prosecuting Environmental Crimes (The Intercept) House prints Airbnb tax ordinance (Post Register) Nurses Urge Senate to Reject Pruitt for Critical EPA Post (Common Dreams) Expect More Conflict Between Cities And States (Huffington Post) Hough ranks third in General Assembly in fundraising from bail bond industry (Frederick News Post) A different choice (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette) Koch brothers' American dream (Colorado Springs Independent) Battling climate change--and those who deny it (Longmont Times-Call) Tillerson's damaging record of extraction and opposing climate action (Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy) Bill would limit influence of unions on public project bids (Chippewa Herald)
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