News stories by Matthew Charles Cardinale, page 3

ATLANTA, Georgia, Mar 26 (IPS) - Even as the issue of gay marriage continues to make waves in the U.S., change is inexorably arriving in the halls of power, with a record seven openly homosexual or bisexual members of the new U.S. Congress.

ATLANTA, Georgia, Feb 28 (IPS) - Notorious former Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who spent more than three years in federal prison for tax evasion, conspiracy to bribe public officials and fraud, is now touring the U.S. urging ethics reform at the federal level.

ATLANTA, Georgia, Feb 27 (IPS) - The right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and private education management firms are pushing for new "parent trigger" laws in states across the U.S. by lobbying many Republican and some Democratic legislators to make it easier to convert more traditional public schools to charter schools.

ATLANTA, Georgia, Feb 26 (IPS) - The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday in a challenge to the constitutionality of key sections of the historic Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965.

ATLANTA, Georgia, Jan 30 (IPS) - Since the U.S. states of Colorado and Washington fully legalised marijuana via ballot initiatives in the November 2012 elections, efforts to medicalise, decriminalise, or legalise marijuana at the state level are sprouting up like so many hemp stalks on a sunny day.

ATLANTA, Georgia, Jan 28 (IPS) - There is a growing national movement to establish a 28th amendment to the constitution of the United States to address the issue of unlimited corporate spending in elections, although the groups working on the issue diverge on what exactly the amendment should say.

ATLANTA, Georgia, Jan 10 (IPS) - Georgia Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, one of the largest U.S. utilities in the U.S. south, plans to retire 15 coal and oil-fired energy generating units at four different plants, in the latest sign that a national campaign against coal is gaining traction.

ATLANTA, Georgia, Dic 19 (IPS) - With Barack Obama's re-election last month as U.S. president, key environmental protections escaped a likely Republican chopping block, and new regulations are expected when his second term begins in January.

ATLANTA, Georgia, Nov 26 (IPS) - When HIV/AIDS first emerged in the 1980s, the stereotypical image of a person living with the disease in the United States was a young or middle-aged white homosexual male.