berkeley
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After bags and sodas, Boulder has designs on straws next
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The Colorado town that charges a dime for plastic bag and a puts an extra tax on your sugary soda might have its eyes on your straws next. That’s the word Tuesday from Alex Burness of the Boulder Daily Camera. There’s a public education campaign afoot called Suck the Straws Out of Boulder to talk…
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Here it’s a ‘campus free speech bill’; there it’s a ‘Milo bill,’ of course
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In Colorado, sponsors call the legislative proposal a “campus free speech bill.” Sponsors in Tennessee call their version the “Milo Bill,” after Milo Yiannopoulos, the right-wing provocateur and Breitbart News editor, whose deliberately offensive college speaking appearances have often generated protest and occasionally violence. Colorado’s Senate Bill 62 is being sponsored by libertarian-conservative Tim Neville,…