The Rhode Island House Committee on Judiciary will consider microstamping legislation next week on Thursday, April 24. House Bill 7834, sponsored by State Representatives Joseph Almeida (D-12), Edith Ajello (D-3), Anastasia Williams (D-9), Grace Diaz (D-11), and Joanne Giannini (D-7)

If Obama's remark about voters' clinging to God and guns because they're bitter isn't a disaster for his campaign, Obama and his fellow travelers seem to be spinning overtime to make sure it's as damaging as possible.

Imagine an election race of Pat Robertson versus James Dobson," writes Dave Kopel, "each of them appearing at organic grocery stores and Starbucks throughout Massachusetts, with each candidate insisting that he alone deserves the vote of gay-marriage advocates. An equally

If a man`s home is his castle, then that man has every right to shoot an intruder who would dare to break in. That`s the gist of Senate Bill 184, the Castle Doctrine bill. It presumes that a resident acted

A key piece of Mayor Richard Daley`s anti-gun package failed Wednesday in a House largely influenced by pro-gun lawmakers.

The National Rifle Association was scheduled to go before a Philadelphia judge this morning, seeking an order to block enforcement of a package of illegal gun-control laws that City Council passed last week and that Mayor Nutter signed.

On Monday, April 21, the Board of Commissioners of the Lower Chichester Township will hold a public meeting to discuss a proposed ordinance that would require a buyer, seller, owner, tenant, or applicant to disclose whether there are or presumably

A new Brookings Institution study released Wednesday says Duluth's economy could get a boost of up to $300 million if the federal government invests in a Great Lakes cleanup and restoration effort.

Attorney General Lori Swanson claims the six companies took advantage of people trying to keep their homes out of foreclosure.

Federal environmental officials are not happy with Minnesota plans to issue ballast water permits for ships. The MPCA's draft ballast permit was discussed in a two hour hearing the agency held in Duluth.

A slumping housing market is spilling over into lake property. The red hot Minnesota lakeshore market is slowing.

Minnesota's economy gained a net 5,200 jobs in March.

Fast growth makes Poland's leading beer and vodka distributor worth a shot.

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The Metropolitan New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church recently sold off its big church on Skillman Street and Bedford Avenue, in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The property fetched $4,100,000, according to public records. A representative for the church said the only

Brooklynites may be able to learn a thing or two from the discipline and staying power of one Ohioan renovator. Granted, the Akron couple featured in today's New York Times, David and Gina Giffels, picked up their 1913 Tudor for

The city has a new plan for Coney Island that attempts to forge a detente with local landowners over competing visions for the area, according to an article in today's Times. In November the Bloomberg administration revealed that it wanted