Author: Michael R. Blood
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California looks to build $7 billion legal pot economy
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The future of California’s legal marijuana industry is being shaped in a warren of cubicles tucked inside a retired basketball arena, where a garden of paper cannabis leaves sprouts on file cabinets and a burlap sack advertising “USA Home Grown” dangles from a wall. Here, in the outskirts of Sacramento, a handful…
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One for the establishment: Ayotte wins N.H. GOP nod
Former New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte was certified the winner of the Republican Senate primary by state election officials on Wednesday to the relief of party officials in Washington still coming to grips with the defeat of their preferred candidate in a separate race in Delaware. Ayotte defeated Ovide Lamontagne by 1,667 votes in…
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Chicken quip grounds high-flying GOP Senate candidate
CARSON CITY, Nev. — Right wing, left wing, chicken wing. Suddenly Nevada politics is all about chickens — bad news for the Republican Senate front-runner but a ray of hope for struggling Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid. Sue Lowden recently suggested bartering with doctors for medical care — “our grandparents, they would bring a chicken…