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Although COVID-19 may have caused last year to feel like a long extension of 2020, 2021 saw several significant changes to New Jersey’s employment law landscape that have nothing to do with face coverings or vaccinations. By way of highlight and summary, New Jersey’s 2021 employment-related measures include: the enactment of three separate cannabis reform bills that formally legalize the us...

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A loophole in federal law allows the sale of cannabis products that produce a marijuana-like high even in states that haven't legalized marijuana. There's a booming market for them in a number of states - for instance, Wisconsin. Rob Mentzer of Wisconsin Public Radio reports. ROB MENTZER, BYLINE: The drug in marijuana that produces the high is called delta-9 THC. It's a m...

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Planned Parenthood supporters rally at Ohio Statehouse on July 29, 2021 Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a bill into law known as the "Born Alive Infant Protection Act" that requires doctors to provide medical care to an infant in the case of botched abortions. Ohio already bans abortions past 20 weeks of gestation and opponents say infants are not viable before that point. But supporters of leg...

His office had not yet seen the bills Tuesday afternoon and didn’t comment on them directly, but pointed to declining shared revenue from the legislature over the past two decades as a contributing factor to fewer officers in Wisconsin today. The bill package is in response to what law enforcement officials say is the lowest total number of officers in Wisconsin in a decade, as well as rising...

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The intersection of Smith and Pauahi streets in Honolulu's Chinatown, September 2021 After dealing with the same perpetrators year after year, Honolulu is changing the way it responds to complaints about homeless residents. When those complaints come into 911, law enforcement is not the only response option. The City and County of Honolulu has created Crisis Outreach Response and Engagement...

Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising, Germany -- pictured in a Feb. 12, 2015, file photo at the Vatican -- submitted his resignation in early summer 2021. Pope Francis did not accept his resignation. (CNS photo/Cristian Gennari, KNA) MUNICH (CNS) — In mid-January, the law firm Westpfahl Spilker Wastl is scheduled to publish a report into the handling of clerical sexual abuse in the A...