Silicon Valley-funded privacy think tanks fight in DC to unravel state-level consumer privacy protections
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Colorado could be the next state to let its employees collectively bargain
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How Atlanta plans to get to 100% green energy by 2035
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Last summer, Foxconn announced a barrage of new projects in Wisconsin, but an attempt to check up on them found little except empty buildings and secrecy
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California National Guard defies Donald Trump on transgender troop ban
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House OKs 100 percent clean energy in Washington by 2045
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A bill banning most abortions becomes law in Ohio
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Take from the rich and give to ... the subway? Inside New York's evolving congestion pricing policy.
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Nova Scotia to become first in North America with presumed consent for organ donation
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Puerto Rico just passed a bill to require 100% renewable electricity by 2050
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Maryland just became the sixth state to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour
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Transgender advocates 'gobsmacked' by 'uneducated' ad opposing Tasmanian birth certificate laws
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Madison adopts plan to achieve clean energy goals, align with federal Green New Deal bill
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State-funded adoption agencies in Michigan barred from refusing LGBTQ parents
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Hundreds of US cities are killing or scaling back their recycling programs
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Protecting the 'unbanked' by banning cashless businesses in Philadelphia
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Kentucky approves bill to make 'doxing' illegal after Covington student's online backlash
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Ontario’s basic income was working amazingly well before it got canceled
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Farmers markets lies exposed
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Right to repair legislation is officially being considered in Canada
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Atheists and non-believers could soon receive civil rights protections under Portland law
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British Columbia ending interest on new and existing student loans
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Five Melbourne councils forced to dump recycling in landfill as Victoria crisis deepens
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Florida is drowning. Condos are still being built. Can't humans see the writing on the wall?
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West Virginia lawmaker faces calls to resign after likening LGBTQ people to KKK, ‘terrorist group’
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Ralph Northam yearbook page shows men in blackface and KKK robe
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Premier Daniel Andrews has just announced that the Victorian government will ban gay conversion therapy in that state
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New Jersey approved LGBTQ-inclusive school curriculum — And it's only the second in the nation
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Arkansas court rules city can't enforce LGBTQ protections
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Ex-Jakarta Governor Ahok, jailed for blasphemy, freed
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New York passes Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) and legislation banning “conversion therapy”
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The future of the minimum wage is alive in Seattle
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How an emerging African megacity cut commutes by two hours a day
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City of Keene in dispute with local restaurant owner over 'Pho Keene Great' name
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Anyone have original music they'd like to share?
Tried this a few months ago, wanted to see if anyone was interested in sharing. Just curious if anyone has been working on any music projects they'd want to share? Maybe even local / independent...
Tried this a few months ago, wanted to see if anyone was interested in sharing.
Just curious if anyone has been working on any music projects they'd want to share? Maybe even local / independent artists you feel strongly about? Post them links!
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Scientists think Alabama's sewage problem has caused a tropical parasite. The state has done little about it.
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An Indonesian city has launched a new campaign to "cleanse" LGBT people of their "social sickness" through religious exorcisms
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Taiwan ruling party suffers major defeat in local elections
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Wealthy White people in Atlanta suburb tried to secede from their Black-led town. They failed.
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The strangest form of White flight
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Waymo has been granted the first permit in California to begin driverless testing on public roads
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Wisconsin’s $4.1 billion Foxconn factory boondoggle
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Dulwich Hamlet: The improbable tale of a tiny football club that lost its home to developers – and won it back
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New Brunswick village angers residents with 'straight pride' flag
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Thirty-five US states tell the Federal Communications Commission to get off its ass and do something about spoofed robocalls
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Colorado’s recreation roadmap makes it one of the only states to fuse outdoor play, environmental protection
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'Don't touch my Vespa!' Why Genoa is threatening to ban its icon of cool.
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Australian states and territories agree to axe 'tampon tax'
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Justice Department sues to stop California net neutrality law
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California bans restaurants from automatically giving out plastic straws
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