California's legislature approved a bill that will boost the state's minimum wage to $10 an hour by 2016. Governor Jerry Brown said he would sign the measure, which is expected to raise the current $8 minimum wage to $9 an hour next July and $10 by January 1, 2016.
Two Colorado Democratic lawmakers John Morse and Senator Angela Giron who had voted for stricter gun laws including the size of ammunition magazines and requiring universal background checks, have faced a strong backlash on Tuesday. Colorado's first legislative recall elections have indicated severe blowbackz
Nine former administrators of the Drug Enforcement Administration blasted Department of Justice Attorney General's decision to soften its stance on marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington. Those two states had allowed legalization of marijuana after voter-approved ballot measures. Over two dozen other states, as well as D.C. allow medicinal marijuana.
The state of North Carolina became the third state to forbid law enforcement from destroying unclaimed firearms and weapons. The legislation was termed "save the guns" by advocates of the legislation
