California Democratic Representative Anna Eshoo has introduced legislation to regulate the loudness of TV commercials. The bill, which I promise you is real, is called the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act, or CALM. Read more about it here.
This is the kind of thing where you expect Ashton Kutcher to run onto the house floor in [...]

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I have a confession.  I’m really confused by the back and forth over the medicaid intercept.  I think I understand the Republican position — they enacted the intercept because of the belief that medicaid cost will increase by more than the amount of growth the county would received in sales tax money.
Monroe County’s sales tax growth [...]

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