SEATTLE—A push to legalize marijuana on the West Coast is picking up steam as Washington lawmakers and pot proponents in California and Oregon propose separate measures.

The Washington state legislature will hold a preliminary vote Wednesday on whether to sell pot in state liquor stores, though even its authors say the bill is unlikely to pass. The same day in California, backers of a well-funded ballot measure to legalize marijuana are expected to file more than enough signatures to put the initiative before state voters in November. Read the full story

Houston Is Largest City to Elect Openly Gay Mayor Read the full story

Brian Bergeron: Report from Massachusetts HB 2929 Legalization hearing (via NORML)

My Report From The Massachusetts Committee on Revenue Hearing for HB2929 (Cannabis Taxation and Regulation) on October 14, 2009 Read the full story

Video is of former State Trooper Greg Evensen.

This excerpt is from The Daily Paul on 9/15/2009:

Many of you have been wondering about the validity of Greg Evensen’s information about the RFID vaccination-bracelets. Read the full story

BOSTON (AP) — James S. McDonald, president and chief executive of investment management firm Rockefeller & Co., has died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, Massachusetts authorities said Tuesday. Read the full story

The ancient Egyptians used two bright stars in the Big Dipper and Little Dipper constellations to align their pyramids in a north-south direction, a British Egyptologist says. If she’s right, we can now pin down the ages of the pyramids far more accurately than before.

It’s an “ingenious solution to a long-standing mystery”, says astronomer and science historian Owen Gingerich of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “It seems quite convincing to me. This could pin down the dates of the Old Kingdom of Egypt – the oldest fixed dates in history.” Read the full story

ALBANY — Workers at Capital Region hospitals are going to have to get a flu shot this year or face losing their jobs.

The requirement is part of a new emergency regulation adopted earlier this month by the State Hospital Review and Planning Council that requires that all hospital workers get the flu vaccine — and that it be a requirement for employment. Read the full story

Last night Zero Hedge obtained some interesting documents from the CDC web site.  They contain blank ‘forced quarantine’ orders from Iowa and Florida regarding novel H1N1 — including quarantine to a ’secure detention center’– which appear to be recent — dated April 2009.  Some may be aware the NIH and CDC just held an H1N1 conference in DC — August 19-21 2009 — that focused on ‘mass fatality management’. For many, this should be cause for concern.  Read the full story

This is good news for Ron Paul and his Campaign for Liberty. There have been threats by the Fed and others that auditing the Fed would have devastating consequences for the American, and world, economy. What exactly are they hiding?

Check out the videos from Ron Paul and others for some more information on this topic. Read the full story

Fines up to $1000 per day when someone doesn’t get vaccinated, or up to 30 days in prison.

Unconstitutional?

Click the title to read/see more information regarding this developing situation.

Chemical spill sends dozens to hospital in New Bedford Read the full story