Via email by Steve H. to contact.ipr@gmail.com:
Libertarian Nick Taiber won his run-off election for Cedar Falls, Iowa (pop: 36,000) City Council At-Large in a landslide 65%-35%. Taiber, a 32 year old business consultant, won the most votes with 46% and 11 of 15 precincts in the November election but fell short of the [...]

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In Illinois, the Democratic-controlled legislature allowed a November 30th deadline to pass on Civil Union legislation, with no action except for postponing the deadline. In New York, the NY State Senate finally allowed same-sex marriage to come for a vote, and then voted it down. Included is commentary from Patrick Kelly, a Green Party member from Illinois, and from Kimberly Wilder, a green activist from New York State.

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com:
Webcartoonist and activist Nicholas Ivan Ladendorf pits his wit against big party dollars.
Nicholas Ivan Ladendorf isn’t your typical comic book artist. “I’m using Op-Ed style comics to reach voters” explains Ladendorf who is running as a Progressive in the race for the house seat for Missouri’s 7th district. The medium allows Ladendorf to [...]

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Since December 2008, IPR has been able to provide live broadcasts of the last three LNC meetings.
At this time, I have not heard back from anyone who can make a laptop with webcam (or a laptop and a regular videocamera that they will have there and know how to run through it) available for [...]

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San Francisco, California, December 4, 2009. Rob Power today announced his candidacy for Libertarian National Committee Secretary.
“The time is right for us Libertarians to adopt a new strategy,” Mr. Power said. “Our Party is unique in its longstanding rejection of perpetual war, central planning, and government favoring certain classes of individuals over others. After [...]

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