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By Pamela M. Prah, Stateline.org Staff Writer
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| All three types of machines pictured here were once in operation in Alabama before the governor’s task force on illegal gambling confiscated them. Their owners deemed the machines legal electronic bingo, but the task force called them illegal slots. |
It has the drama and suspense of a John Grisham novel: pre-dawn gambling raids by state troopers, rumors of political payoffs, rowdy demonstrations at the State Capitol and a fly-over at this year’s Rose Bowl in California with a banner that read, “Impeach Corrupt Alabama Gov. Bob Riley.” All this fuss over bingo? While many other cash-strapped states are trying to expand gaming as a way to get more revenue, Alabama's outgoing governor is on a mission to stamp out illegal gambling in the Heart of Dixie.
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By Staff Reports, The Sacramento Bee
Should campaign chatter on the Twittersphere squeeze "This tweet was paid for by" into the 140-character blasts? A Fair Political Practices Commission subcommittee considered that and other questions at a hearing Wednesday on regulating political communications on new media platforms such as blogs, social networking sites and YouTube videos.
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GA: Georgia debates online voter registration
By Ashley Speagle, Chattanooga Times Free Press
Georgia senators passed a bill Wednesday to allow full online voter registration, but some legislators said that could cause more problems in verifying voter eligibility.
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GA: Pet microchip measure approved by House
By Nancy Badertscher, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Microchips under the skin might prove beneficial under pet-lover legislation passed Wednesday by the Georgia House. HB 1106, sponsored by state Rep. Gene Maddox (R-Cairo), a veterinarian,would require animal shelters to scan any cat or dog that's to be adopted or euthanized for an owner-identifying microchip.
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IA: Tentative compromise reached on texting
By Rod Boshart, Quad-City Times
An Iowa House-Senate conference committee reached tentative agreement today on a texting compromise that would ban most drivers from sending or reading text messages and ban cell phone use by young drivers altogether.
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MA: A $63m push to retrofit housing
By Andrew Ryan, The Boston Globe
Mayor Thomas M. Menino will announce today what is being billed as the largest energy efficiency overhaul in public housing in the nation's history, a sweeping initiative designed to save electricity, countless gallons of water, and millions of dollars.
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MT: E-mails -- No pressure from Dems in poaching case
By The Associated Press, Billings Gazette
Internal e-mails released Wednesday show top officials at the governor's office and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Park were aware a Madison County poaching investigation involved a prominent Republican who later went to work for Denny Rehberg.
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NC: E-mail archiving goes at snail's pace
By Michael Biesecker, The News & Observer (Raleigh)
In July, Gov. Bev Perdue signed an executive order directing the state's information technology staff to implement a new system "as soon as practicable" to automatically archive government e-mail for 10 years. But eight months later, only 1.4 percent of the 60,787 e-mail accounts maintained by the state are on the new archiving system.
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NM: State voting machines secure at private facility
By Bryant Furlow, New Mexico Business Weekly (Albuquerque)
Automated Election Services (AES) is storing a total of 43 state-owned voting machines without charge at its Rio Rancho facility, according to secretary of state spokesman James Flores.
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PA: Court says parents can block 'sexting' cases
By Tamar Lewin, The New York Times
In the first federal appeals court opinion dealing with "sexting" — the transmission of sexually explicit photographs by cellphone — a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday that parents could block the prosecution of their children on child pornography charges for appearing in photographs found on some classmates' cellphones.
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VT: Vermont department streamlines services
By Terri Hallenbeck, Burlington Free Press
WATERBURY, Vt. -- April Goodrich used to work in the Morrisville district office of the Department for Children and Families, working with local clients seeking benefits. Today, the Hyde Park woman takes calls from clients all over the state from a desk in Waterbury, part of a new system that state officials say will be more efficient.
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WA: Tax break for data centers OK'd; laws lose controversial term
By Brad Shannon and Jordan Schrader, The Olympian
Lawmakers approved a tax break Wednesday for technology companies' computer servers, the first piece of Democrats' jobs agenda to go to Gov. Chris Gregoire for her signature and one with the bipartisan support lacking for other job-creation proposals.
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