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Fund launched to support development of outdoor pursuit facilities Aim is to make rural Ireland ’a destination of choice, domestically and internationally, for outdoor pursuits and adventure tourism’ about 3 hours ago Updated: 21 minutes ago   A €14million fund to support outdoor adventure activities has been announced by the Minister for Community and Rural Development Heather Humphreys. Applications for funding for outdoor recreation projects and investment that will support the adventure tourism sector in rural communications opened on Friday. The focus of the funding is ...

ALASKA VOTERS PASS RANKED CHOICE VOTING BUT SIMULTANEOUSLY INJURE BALLOT ACCESS On November 3, Alaska voters passed Measure Two with 50.55% of the vote. It converts elections for partisan office, including president, to ranked choice voting. Unfortunately it also vastly stiffens the definition of a "qualified party". And it restricts the November ballot for congress and partisan state office to only the top four vote-getters in the primary. Past election returns indicate that for elections for Governor and Congress, this will mean only Republicans and Democrats qualify for the November ballot...

And, of course, another issue about income inequality in this country, and actually paying workers. in new jersey, what the heck happened here? voters actually went against chris christie? and voted for minimum wage? an increase by 2014? that's right. the minimum wage is going to go from $7.25 to $8.25 an hour. can we mark that up as another win for the working folk of america? well, let's go to the middle of the country. how about cincinnati, ohio? remember cincinnati? measure two, measure five, all that stuff, going after the public workers? is, well, last night voters have rejectsed a contr...

Governors. i just think that this was a great night for the democrats, no matter how you slice it. in fact, if chris christie hadn't been there winning, what in the world would the mainstream media have been talking about today? holy smokes. there's no highlights here for the republicans. >> if you look at christie, too, i mean, here's a guy, you had a natural disaster. which always bodes well for incumbents. you had him walk in arm in arm on the beach with president obama. and so, of course, that scenario is going to shift. but i thought the one item, the one element from the poll that i saw,...