GOP vows to reverse Obama policy on access to birth control

The health-care law taking effect this year requires most private insurers to pay for birth control. Religious groups have been given an extra year to comply.

Santorum eyes revival in Republican contests

LOVELAND, Colo. (Reuters) - Republican candidate Rick Santorum is gunning for a victory in at least one of the three states holding presidential nominating contests on Tuesday in a bid to slow front-runner Mitt Romney and revive his fading White House hopes. The former senator from Pennsylvania narrowly won Iowa's caucuses on January 3 but his drive to become the main conservative alternative to ...

School Choice Advocates Pitch Tax Credit Scholarship Program

Many proposals encouraging educational choice are pending in Concord this year. One with strong backing would use tax credits to encourage businesses to pay for school scholarships. Critics say this would starve public schools of much needed funding, but supporters say this is a way to give students more options while avoiding constitutional concerns that have doomed past proposals for school ...

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• City Council meets today (Thursday, Jan. 9), with more roiling discussion of Austin Ener gy 's proposed rate changes (public hearing at 6pm, and another one likely for March 1), as well as a morning briefing on the status of the proposed ban on single-use plastic bags.

Baptist Press Stories for Feb. 1 2012 --------------------------------------- Under pressure, Komen halts funds for ...

Editor's note: Two days after this story was posted, Komen apparently reversed its position on Planned Parenthood grants. Read that story at [URL=http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=37111]http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=37111[/URL] WASHINGTON (BP) -- Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world's leading breast cancer organization, will no longer give money to affiliates of Planned Parenthood ...