A CITIZENS' GUIDE TO THE LEGISLATURE A primer on passing a bill in the...

The Gazette;  January 11, 2006 ;     700+ words ...DENVER - To pass a bill in Colorado, you need "33, 18 and one...Capitol adage that refers to the fact that a bill basically needs the support of 33 members...step-by-step look at what it takes to pass a bill in the Colorado General Assembly, which...

Remembering Bill O'Keefe;

Power;  May 1, 2004 ;     617 words ...Bill O'Keefe, who passed away on March 27 at age 82, edited the...to succeed in just about any walk of life. In his youth, Bill followed in his father's footsteps and became an engineer...plant engineer at a New Jersey dye works for two decades, Bill changed careers in his mid-forties and joined the staff ...

STATE WORKER BILL STUCK IT WOULD OK CAMPAIGNING.(NEWS)

The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY);  February 18, 2000 ;     501 words ...A bill to let state employees get more deeply involved...Thursday many senators asked him to torpedo the bill because they didn't want to vote on it and...commitments from most senators to vote for the bill. ''We're going to continue to pursue the issue...

cover story: THE DEBORAH ROSS INTERVIEW - The laid-back stand- up: Bill...

The Independent - London;  October 7, 2002 ;     700+ words ...I meet Bill Bailey at the BBC, in the restaurant at White...wasted on unnecessary illumination) and when Bill arrives, it's rather like a big white forehead sailing towards you out of the murk. Bill has a lot of forehead. Bill may even have...

Bill would help towns in land disputes

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 18, 2004 ;     619 words ...Bill would help towns in land disputes Cities annexing land would...power to protect their borders, state lawmakers have passed a bill that would require cities and villages that annex land to compensate towns for lost property tax revenue. The bill also would prohibit annexations in a county in which the...

HOW A BILL BECOMES LAW.(News)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  January 23, 1996 ;     700+ words ...A bill may be introduced in either the Senate or House of Representatives, but the procedure by which a bill becomes a law is much the same, regardless in which house a bill originates. 1. In this example, the bill is introduced...

English language bill again divides legislators Sponsor calls it an...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 5, 1997 ;     700+ words ...A bill that would designate English as the state's official...African-American lawmakers from Milwaukee who condemned the bill, asked of legislative leaders at a state Assembly committee hearing. If the bill became law, Riley said, it could mean that important...

A joker - and a good joker Bill Hardy, 14 October 1934 - 24 February 2003

AdMedia;  April 11, 2003 ;     589 words ...Bill came to see me one time and I was on a phone call so he sat...that raucous chuckle that accompanied nearly every sentence. Bill had heart bypass surgery about 12 years ago. I went to see...smile. I don't know which was more profound. The sight of Bill chuckling with a massive chest wound or my own ...

Global warming bill delayed in Senate

Capital (Annapolis);  March 20, 2008 ;     584 words ...A bill to slash Maryland's carbon emissions as a way to address...warming was delayed yesterday by senators who feared the bill could hike energy prices and put factories out of business. The bill would require Maryland to cut carbon emissions 25 percent...

BILL PROMPTED BY RAPIST STALLED IN LEGISLATURE

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  December 8, 1993 ;     565 words ...BILL SANDERSON, Trenton Bureau The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 12-08-1993 BILL PROMPTED BY RAPIST STALLED IN LEGISLATURE By BILL SANDERSON, Trenton Bureau Date: 12-08-1993, Wednesday Section: NEWS Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star...

On Site with Artist Bill Cottnam ~1923-2006~

Our Times;  June 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...WILLIAM (BILL) COTTNAM discovered his muse on a construction...Sewage Treatment Plant, in Ottawa. While Bill excelled in figure drawing, landscapes...artist's images of the finished projects, Bill's preferred focus became the workers themselves...

Rabbit foot Bill.(Short story)

Queen's Quarterly;  December 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...BILL never likes to leave town the same way twice. He strides out with an urgency I find...I usually have to run to keep him in my sight. We have been friends for a year--Bill and I--and although people don't approve, we are friends anyway. I like that Bill isn't bothered by what people say. Mostly he is ...

Shariat bill. (Pakistan)

Economic Review;  July 1, 1990 ;     700+ words ...Shariat Bill Apparently, PPP government has been caught unaware and it is said that the Bill is a constitutional device to topple the PPP majority through a joint session of the parliament. The Bill now stands transmitted to the National Assembly...

ANTI-BULLYING VOTE BLOCKED IN OLYMPIA CONSERVATIVE OPPONENTS SAY BILL IS A...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  May 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...A bill aimed at curtailing bullying and harassment...that it amounted to a gay rights measure. The bill would have require school districts to set...homosexuality. In their testimony against the bill, Christian conservatives said it threatened...

Bill to let state employers reject felons clears Assembly

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  November 7, 2001 ;     606 words ...Bill to let state employers reject felons clears Assembly Plan...consideration. Rep. Jerry Petrowski (R-Marathon) said his bill was aimed at allowing employers more discretion when faced...offense is "substantially related" to a particular job. The bill passed Tuesday specifies that it is not employment ...