November 6, 2014

What's happening Thursday morning

Harper's Magazine Estimated # of times SWAT teams were deployed in the United States in 1980: 3,000 .... In 2013: 60,000

The median race was only 2.2% more Republican than in 2012. But that was all they needed.

On November 4, eight Progressive Party members were elected to the Vermont State Legislature. Some of them were only nominated by the Progressive Party. Others were the nominees of both the Progressive Party and the Democratic Party, but they consider themselves Progressive Party members. Vermont allows fusion.

Seattle residents voted to tax themselves to fund a $58 million pilot program providing city-subsidized high-quality childcare to low-income families. What's more, the measure won with 67 percent of the vote.




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