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BOSTON Massachusetts senators resumed their casino debate Tuesday, quickly becoming mired in the question of whether to create a five-year cooling-off period before any former legislator could be employed by a casino. The proposal sparked a divisive debate on the floor of the Senate. Senators supporting the amendment said it would help guard against lawmakers using their political connections to land a casino job. But critics of the amendment said it would feed the publics cynicism of Beacon Hill. They accused casino opponents of launching an attack against their colleagues in the chamber.

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OKLAHOMA CITY – The Board of Juvenile Affairs has called a special meeting for 2 p.m. Thursday to discuss added ways to restrain juveniles involved in altercations at its facilities. The Oklahoma City meeting comes after a second outbreak of violence last week at the Central Oklahoma Juvenile Center in Tecumseh. The board will discuss seeking changes to a landmark court case, the so-called Terry D. Case, which governs the use of mechanical restraints on juveniles. The federal lawsuit alleged abusive practices, unconstitutional use of isolation and restraints, untrained staff members and the mingling of offenders with nonoffenders. The case was dismissed in 1996. Find more info…

RALEIGH — North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue’s re-election campaign has surrendered a small donation after worries the money may have been loaned to a donor by a family member.

Perdue’s campaign lawyer wrote to the State Board of Elections and enclosed a check for $500, equal to the Aug. 22 contribution attributed by the campaign to Jarrett Culbreth. The governor’s political committee was concerned Culbreth may have received a loan from his grandfather to attend a fundraising event in Asheville that day, campaign officials said.

“We did not know for certain whether this was the case, but we decided that the best thing to do was to disgorge the money just to be safe,” campaign spokesman Marc Farinella wrote in an e-mail.

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Ed Miliband has warned Labour that it will have to learn “hard lessons” about its past mistakes and accept that it will have to work hard to win back the trust of the British people.

In a stern message designed to show there is no complacency about the party’s prospects in his tight-knit circle, Miliband told the Labour conference it could not count on Tory failure in order to win back power.

“My message to the public is this: we know waiting for the Tories to fail won’t win us back your trust,” he said in an echo of the mantra of Tory modernisers a decade ago.

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After the recent financial cries, people are experiencing various hardships like job loss, underemployment, and wage reduction due to which they are being unable to manage their finances, and are incessantly falling into debts. But fortunately people can come out of these exiting debts by pursuing several debt relief programs like debt consolidation and debt settlement.

However, in recent times, there are many debt consolidation and debt settlement companies who charge a hefty upfront fee promising the consumers to reduce their debts, but ultimately do nothing. Little or no effort is made to settle the debts and the consumers are left in worse shape than before. Find more info…