December 20, 2015 Price check: IL reduces EBT payments, but it doesn’t have to hurt Illinois is reducing EBT payments for two million families in Illinois who get the assistance, but the smaller benefits are neither a surprise nor a problem.
December 20, 2015 Defiance, Ohio, limits chalked sidewalk messages, sparking lawsuit Mind your words in Defiance, Ohio, but feel free to draw your best smiley face on the pavement.
December 20, 2015 Tax on sugary drinks floated in San Francisco San Francisco is getting into the debate over regulating sugary drinks.
December 20, 2015 ObamaCare sites fail to rate insurance plans Shopping for health insurance on the ObamaCare exchanges? Not only will you have to navigate the technical problems that have plagued the site -- but in most states, those running the exchanges are not posting ratings that could give shoppers a clear sense of how good the plans are.
December 20, 2015 Pot legalization effort moves eastward to Maine Advocates of recreational marijuana use are looking to an upcoming vote in Maine as an indicator of whether the East Coast is ready to follow in the footsteps of Colorado and Washington by legalizing cannabis.
December 20, 2015 Gun rights rally to break century-long Alamo tradition This is how to make another gun rally in gun-friendly Texas stand out: Tell everybody to bring their rifles and shotguns to the Alamo, the state’s most popular attraction, which sits downtown in the country’s seventh-largest city. And be sure to invite the state’s gun-friendliest politician, who also happens to hold the keys to the historic site.
December 20, 2015 Striking San Francisco transit union, authorities make offers San Francisco Bay Area rapid transit workers are on strike for the second time since July, scrambling the morning commute for hundreds of thousands of workers who were up before dawn to clog highways, swarm buses and shiver on ferry decks as they found alternative ways to the office.
December 20, 2015 Same-sex marriages to begin Monday in NJ Same-sex marriages can begin within days in New Jersey after the state's highest court ruled unanimously Friday to uphold an order that they must start Monday and to deny a delay that had been sought by Gov. Chris Christie's administration.
December 20, 2015 San Francisco transit workers strike after contract talks break down San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit workers could go on strike at midnight unless a last-minute deal on a contract is reached with management, a union leader said Thursday.
December 20, 2015 Ex-San Diego Mayor Filner pleads guilty to felony false imprisonment, battery Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner pleaded guilty on Tuesday to felony false imprisonment and two misdemeanor counts of battery involving three women, just weeks after he left office amid a storm of sexual harassment allegations.
