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Daily Archives: February 1st, 2012

Washington’s Senate approves marriage equality legislation after long debate

Excerpt: Won­der­ful, won­der­ful news to cel­e­brate tonight: After a debate that stretched for more than an hour and a half, and saw the adop­tion and rejec­tion of more than a dozen amend­ments, Wash­ing­ton’s state Sen­ate has vot­ed to approve leg­is­la­tion mak­ing mar­riage equal­i­ty the law of the land. The vote was twen­ty-eight to twen­ty-one. Four Repub­li­cans […]
Published at:8:24 PM on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Breaking News, Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics
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President Obama’s schedule for February 17th Seattle visit begins to take shape

Excerpt: A few days ago, White House offi­cials let it be known that Pres­i­dent Oba­ma would be stop­ping in Wash­ing­ton State again for a mid-Feb­ru­ary vis­it. They did­n’t announce his itin­er­ary or sched­ule, but we fig­ured it would­n’t be long before the cam­paign began send­ing out invi­ta­tions to fundrais­ers with the Pres­i­dent. Yes­ter­day, the first invi­ta­tions […]
Published at:8:47 AM on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Elections, Events
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