From today’s paper: “Civil unions bill clears big hurdle“: The Delaware Senate on Thursday approved the state’s first civil unions bill, voting by a 2-to-1 ratio to grant the same legal rights and protections to same-sex couples that married couples have. … In the end, the bill — S.B. 30 — emerged from a chamber that has often been a cemetery for gay-rights bills passed first by the House of Representatives. The bill, sponsored by Sen. David P. Sokola, D-Newark,... Read more