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New script for Sudafed?
By John Gramlich, Stateline.org Staff Writer
Anyone in Oregon who wants to buy tablets of Sudafed or Claritin D must have a doctor’s prescription to do so. Those who live in Oklahoma must submit to an instant online screening before they can walk out of a pharmacy with those products.
The two states are taking aggressive but different approaches to a common and long-standing problem: the production of crystal meth, a highly addictive drug made with a decongestant found in several leading cold and allergy medicines, including Sudafed.
Oregon’s approach has alarmed the pharmaceuticals industry, which is lobbying hard in other states in favor of Oklahoma’s approach — even offering to pay for it. Either way, the purchase of cold medicines by meth makers is likely to become much trickier.
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States weigh national ed standards
By Stateline.org Staff
TODAY’S TAKE: Officials from 48 states last week unveiled a set of proposed education standards for K-12 schools nationwide, taking a key step to guarantee that students in one part of the country build the same skills as those in another. Now comes the hard part, as states must decide whether they want to adopt those standards. Alaska and Texas have already said no.
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Tempest in a tea party
By Pamela M. Prah, Stateline.org Staff Writer
Both political parties are taking tea party activists seriously and are wary of offending them – if they are not already actively wooing them for state races this fall. Just look at the governor’s election in Ohio. Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich openly touts his tea party credentials in his bid to defeat incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland. “I think I was in the tea party before there was a tea party,” Kasich famously told a Columbus crowd earlier this year. “This is a real movement with a real message about people’s frustrations by broken promises that leaders on both sides of the aisle would be foolish to ignore,” he went on to write in a blog posting.
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Utah House Majority Leader Kevin Garn, R-Layton, resigned Saturday following a dramatic admission in the closing moments of the 2010 legislative session of a decades-old, nude hot-tubbing incident with a then-15-year-old girl and a payment to the woman in 2002 of $150,000.
The Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City)
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Expelled from the state Senate, shunned by his party and denounced as a domestic abuser, Hiram Monserrate is seeking his old job back in a special election Tuesday.
Times Union (Albany)
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A former state official who played a major role in the state's biggest privatization fiasco is now making money trying to help Texas fix the problems that resulted.
The Dallas Morning News
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RICHMOND, Va. -- The Virginia General Assembly adjourned its annual legislative session Sunday evening after adopting a two-year, $82 billion budget that cuts millions from education, health care and public safety -- curtailing state spending more aggressively than any in generations while fulfilling the new Republican governor's promise not to raise taxes.
The Washington Post
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Governor Christie will propose a constitutional amendment limiting annual property tax increases to 2.5 percent when he introduces a budget Tuesday that will seek fundamental changes in spending at every level of government, according to administration officials with knowledge of the plan.
The Record of Bergen County
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For the first time in a decade, Arizona voters in May will decide whether to raise the state sales tax. The outcome will decide the size and shape of government.
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix)
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Lawmakers reached an agreement late Friday to delay a $400 million tax increase facing Indiana's businesses, bringing the 2010 legislative session to a close.
The Indianapolis Star
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom declared Friday that he would run in the November race for California lieutenant governor.
The Wall Street Journal
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President Barack Obama's proposed rewrite of the "No Child Left Behind" law goes to Congress on Monday, kicking off what is sure to be months of debate among labor unions, education groups and lawmakers over how to recalibrate the federal government's role in the nation's 98,000 public elementary and high schools.
The Wall Street Journal
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In the fight over how to overhaul the nation's financial regulatory system, one of the key power struggles has pitted the states -- in particular a core group of state attorneys general -- against federal regulators, financial lobbyists and some members of Congress.
The Washington Post
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Some states are seeing fewer people than hoped take advantage of federal rebates for energy-efficient appliances. As of late last week, Georgia, Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan had issued less than 25% of their funds despite offering rebates for at least a month.
USA Today
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