Fight erupts as Michigan decriminalization bill fails
In Ann Arbor Michigan State Rep Rosetta Ferguson clashed with Rep Perry Bullard after Bullard's marijuana reform bill to decriminalize possession under an ounce was voted down 53 to 48. Ferguson shouted You pot smoker and struck Bullard with an ashtray provoking adjournment. Bullard suffered a sore head but no serious injuries.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
UPI
Rosetta Ferguson
Michigan
Perry Bullard
Bullard
House
House members defend pay raise amid voter facing duty
Washington UPI reports 241 House members must explain keeping a $12,900 yearly pay raise while 181 vote to roll it back. The 250 161 House vote funds a $940 million appropriations bill including a $55 million extension to the Capitol’s west front, with Senate not yet acting.
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Washington
UPI
House
Senate
Capitol
Congress
Jim Wright
Thomas O'Neill
Robert Hall chain ends 37 year run with 364 store closures
New York United Merchants and Manufacturers disperses Robert Hall outlets after 37 years citing waning sales. About 5 000 workers are out of work as unions call the move a lockout and plan to contest with the National Labor Relations Board.
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New York
UPI
Robert Hall Clothing
No Frills’ Haberdasher
United Merchants and Manufacturers, Inc
United Merchants
Robert Hall
Philip H. Kirshen
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
Retail Clerks International Union
Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
National Labor Relations Board
Last railway clerk to make final trip
The last railway post office clerks retire as the Postal Service ends 113 years of sorting mail on trains. Ed Barksdale and about 60 colleagues will ride the final New York to Washington trip with two RPO cars, marking the era’s end.
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Washington
UPI
Ed Barksdale
Barksdale
Postal Service
New York
Albert McClellan
Trains Magazine
RPO
Frankard Junction
Chicago
Clinton
Town
New York-Washington
America
The
Amtrak
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Leisure Print
Arrow & Enro
N. Main
Hal Shepherd
Linton
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