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  • States Take Lead Regulating Compounding Pharmacies
  • After a lack of congressional action after last fall's deadly meningitis outbreak, 15 states have taken up bills to step up the regulation of facilities like the one linked to the outbreak.

  • Federal Funding for Cities' Anti-Terrorism Centers Dwindling
  • The so-called fusion centers -- they sift intelligence about terrorism, determine threat levels, and investigate suspicious activity and potential crises -- have become a fixture in post-9-11 America. There are 78 centers nationwide.


  • Seattle Plans to be Carbon Neutral by 2050
  • City leaders this month are unveiling an ambitious Climate Action Plan, with the goal of making Seattle carbon neutral (zero net emissions of greenhouse gases) by 2050



  • Camden Schools Won't Fight State Takeover
  • The Camden Board of Education voted to endorse a state takeover of the school district, saying it was in the "best interest of the children."


  • Prisons Get Rated on Yelp
  • The business and restaurant rating site is now being used to rate an unconventional entity -- prisons. Inmates are reporting about the quality of the food, the friendliness of deputies, and more.

  • Gunmakers Leave States with New, Strict Laws
  • Arms manufacturers in at least two states with strict new gun laws are making good on their promise to move their operations -- along with thousands of jobs and millions in tax revenues -- to locales they deem friendlier to the industry.
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  • Fracking-Ban Bills Advance in California
  • The bills call for a moratorium to allow more time to study the impacts of hydraulic fracturing, which involves blasting a mix of chemicals and water deep underground.

  • How School Choice Has Reshaped Arizona
  • Arizona is one of the nation’s leading states in letting families choose where and how their children are educated, according to the Center for Education Reform, a Washington, D.C., education think tank that ranks Arizona sixth in the country for school choice.


  • Arizona AG OKs Bisbee's Civil-Union Changes
  • Arizona's attorney general withdrew his threat to sue the small city of Bisbee, Ariz., after its lawyers agreed to rewrite a controversial ordinance recognizing same-sex couples to remove rights that he said were reserved for married couples under state law.


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