Almanac: At the Capitol

I like to try and get my news from a variety of sources, and often I find some of the best articles are being written by the college papers. I had one of those "I wish I'd written it myself" moments when I saw this piece in the Minnesota Daily.
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In what feels like the end of the quickest campaign vacation ever, St. Paul will be meeting for caucuses tonight and, among other things, will participate in the first Minnesota Presidential Straw Poll.
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Recently the governor of Texas, himself an avowed conservative, made the unusual move of requiring that all girls be vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) before they enter the 6th grade.
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The 34th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade occured two weeks ago, and there could not have been a more stark difference in the way that day was commemorated than in the activities of the Minnesota and North Dakota legislature.
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2006 saw Women's Choice issues hold steady in the face of continued onslaught. Although I am grateful that bills such as the one banning clinics from using taxpayers money, or the bill to give pharmacists the right to refuse to provide birth control or emergency contraception never made it into law, I'm looking to 2007 as a time to roll back some of Governor Pawlenty's more onerous anti-choice legislation from his first term.
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