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State legislative leaders vow no action on gay marriage

By Jason Hancock 5/29/09

“We do have to face the voters, but we also have to face ourselves every morning,” said Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal. “We have to be able to look ourselves in the mirror every day. And by the way, we didn’t do this for the GLBT community. We did this for everybody.”

COMMENTARY: The Last Generation To Have A Childhood

By Douglas Burns 7/13/08

In the movie “Children of Men,” actor Clive Owen leads us through a futuristic landscape in which no children are being born.

It is an imagined adults-only world. Or is it?

A few nights ago, sitting in a local watering hole after a community event we covered, I listened to stories from young parents about what it [...]

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