Roxanne Cooper has spent more than 35 years in the news business and has held management positions at the San Francisco Bay Guardian, LA Weekly, Stars and Stripes and the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. She is currently the Publisher at Raw Story and AlterNet.org.
New Jersey's state Senate has defeated a bill to legalize gay marriage, leaving it unlikely the state will have a gay marriage law in the very near future.
The bill needed 21 votes to pass; only 14 senators approved the measure Thursday.
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