Cutting the pork: Lawmakers in fattest state shed pounds (AP)

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 at 8:34 am  
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In this photo taken March 10, 2010, Paul Lacoste, a former Mississippi State football player, personal trainer, and main coach of the 12-week 'boot camp,' held at a private college near the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., calls out exercises to the class. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP – In a gym at a tiny college in the capital of the most obese state in the nation, state Rep. John Hines dropped his chest to the floor, let out an “Aaaarrrrgggh!” and forced through a few final pushups.


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Fattest state’s lawmakers shed pounds, fried stuff (AP)

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 at 4:47 am  
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In this photo taken March 10, 2010, Paul Lacoste, a former Mississippi State football player, personal trainer, and main coach of the 12-week 'boot camp,' held at a private college near the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., calls out exercises to the class. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP – In a gym at a tiny college in the capital of the most obese state in the nation, state Rep. John Hines dropped his chest to the floor, let out an “Aaaarrrrgggh!” and forced through a few final pushups.


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Lawmakers wnt to limit txt msgs and e-mails (AP)

Saturday, March 20th, 2010 at 8:52 pm  
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AP – Open government in the heart of Silicon Valley is starting to mean turn off, tune out, power down.

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Obama urges lawmakers to remember history (AP)

Friday, March 19th, 2010 at 9:51 am  
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AP – President Barack Obama says Congress should ignore the politics around his health care overhaul and remember that the unpopular proposals that created Medicare and Social Security passed with lawmakers’ courage.

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Md. lawmakers not feeling so Southern anymore (AP)

Friday, March 19th, 2010 at 1:48 am  
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In this photo taken Wednesday, March 17, 2010, the grounds of the Maryland State House are shown in Annapolis, Md. Even though the state of Maryland is just south of the Mason-Dixon Line, it will head in May to the Council of State Governments' spring conference in New York as part of the Eastern Region, after successfully pushing to move out of the organization's Southern Region. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)AP – Maryland’s official song may include a line about “Northern scum” left over from the Civil War era, but the state isn’t feeling so Southern anymore.


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