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In 1868, Maj. General John A. Logan, a highly decorated Union Army officer during the Civil War, designated a “memorial day for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during that late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, […] ....
At least a dozen state lawmakers have so far announced that they will not seek reelection in the fall and will instead run for another office or move on to jobs in the private sector almost none announced plans to retire. ....
A bipartisan group of state lawmakers is pressing the Legislature to hold an oversight hearing of the state’s cannabis regulatory agency days after its chair was suspended, arguing it has been an opaque and ill-functioning entity since its creation six years ago. ....