The Senate seat vacated by current Maine Senator Olympia Snowe is shaping up to be quite a contest with not one, but two Independent candidates now joining the race.

University of California at Davis campus activists are frustrated by a court-ordered delay in the release of a task force report on the November 18 pepper spraying of a dozen student protesters by campus police.

Ballot access requirements shall be the same for every candidate, irrespective of party affiliation. Equal access includes access to debates. This shall also apply to initiatives and referenda, and to primary elections. No state shall be eligible to receive federal funding in any amount or form absent its implementation of this provision in time for 2012 and thereafter.

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