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| Will ID laws help or hurt voting? - Detroit Free Press In your May 1 editorial "Court affirms an obstacle to voting," you pointed out that requiring voters to present a photo ID is different than requiring an ID to cash a check or to board an airplane because voting is a right. In fact, it is precisely Source: www.freep.com Democrats plan breaking deficit discipline promise again - International Herald Tribune WASHINGTON : Democrats are finding more excuses to ignore the promise they made when they took over Congress that they wouldn't pass laws increasing the budget deficit. Now they're willing to do it again for a $16 billion extension of unemployment Source: www.iht.com Calls for beauty treatment laws - BBC News They're often seen as a risk-free, cheaper alternative to plastic surgery, but there are calls for new laws over some of the beauty treatments carried out at high street salons. The number of such procedures being carried out has doubled in the past Source: news.bbc.co.uk Josef Fritzl: Austria considers tighter sex laws - Daily Telegraph Fritzl, 73, has been remanded in jail for imprisoning his daughter Elisabeth, 42, in a cellar in his home in Amstetten, for 24 years and custody laws fathering her seven children. MPs will debate tomorrow how new laws might work after it emerged Fritzl was a Source: www.telegraph.co.uk EU opens inquiry into Cyprus' rules on estate agents - CNBC BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) - The European Commission has sent Cyprus an official request for information on its laws governing estate agents, which it believes may not be compatible with EU internal market laws. In July 2007 Cyprus passed a law Source: www.cnbc.com Eateries' smoking ban is dissuading teens - Boston Globe Restaurant smoking bans may be as powerful as peers or parents in the battle to keep teenagers from becoming smokers, a new study suggests. Teenagers who lived in towns that adopted early bans on smoking in restaurants were 40 percent less likely to Source: www.boston.com VeraSun Energy Announces New Revolving Credit Facility Commitment - Forbes BROOKINGS, S.D., May 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VeraSun Energy Corp. (NYSE: VSE), one of the nation's largest ethanol producers, today announced that it has entered into a revolving credit facility commitment letter (the "Commitment Letter") with Source: www.forbes.com Expect more gridlock on immigration - Marion Chronicle-Tribune ruben.navarrette@uniontrib.com. SAN DIEGO A lot of Americans can t get their head around the concept of illegal immigrants demanding civil rights from a country whose laws they ve broken. After all, these are people who have by virtue of Source: www.chronicle-tribune.com Deaths elsewhere - Baltimore Sun Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down such laws nationwide, died Friday at her home in Milford, Va. The cause of death was not disclosed. "I want Source: www.baltimoresun.com |