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Friday, December 22, 2000

• Cindy Miscikowski, a member of the Los Angeles City Council, has joined AASP and has been added to the list of Elected Officials who are members of our organization.

• Recent News has been updated with one story for December 22 about how companies are missing out on business opportunities if they ignore unmarried couples as consumers.  A story for December 21 reports that the first nation in the world has voted to legalize same-sex marriage.  A story for December 20 focuses on a new national survey showing that a majority of the public supports several federal proposals that would benefit a wide range of single people.  A story for December 18 reports that married people in Australia live longer than unmarried people.

• Domestic Partner News has been updated with the summary of a financial advice column for December 18 discussing the need for same-sex couples to take precautionary measures to protect their economic welfare.

• Washtenaw County, Michigan, has been added to the list of government employers offering health benefits to same-sex couples.  Most government employers with domestic partner plans, however, include opposite-sex partners in their programs as well.

Tuesday, December 19, 2000

• Recent News has been updated with two stories for December 17.  The first is an editorial criticizing a proposed ordinance in Lawrence, Kansas, to prohibit more than two unrelated people from living together in an area zoned for single-family use.  The second concerns the drop in both marriage rates and divorce rates in the Cincinatti area.

• Domestic Partner News has been updated with one story for December 15, 2000.

Friday, December 15, 2000

• Recent News has been updated with two stories for December 14, one about a  new ordinance enacted in Atlanta which outlaws marital status and other forms of discrimination, and another about the use of in vitro fertilization by single women in Australia pursuant to a court order that overturned a law limiting such reproductive technology to married women.

• Domestic Partner News has been updated with two stories for December 14, one concerning a domestic partnership bill that will be introduced in Mexico City next week, and the other about the defeat of a rule to give benefits to the domestic partners of crime victims in Minnesota.

Thursday, December 14, 2000

• Steve May, a Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives, has joined AASP and has been added to the list of Elected Officials who are members of our organization.  The Arizona Republic has described May as "one of the most articulate voices in the Legislature for fiscal conservatism and individual rights. His main issues are improving education, increasing access to affordable health care and protecting individual liberty."

• Recent News has been updated with one story for December 5 about a poll which reveals the changing attitudes about marriage in France, and one for December 12 about the number of abortions performed in the United States.  A story was also added for December 13 concerning a new book on divorce and finances which was just released.

• We have just completed relocating the AASP office.  Our Contact Information page has been updated with our new address (415 E. Harvard Street, Suite 204, Glendale, CA 91205) and our new telephone number (818-242-5100).  Our fax number will be operating by the end of December and we will post it on our website at that time.

Wednesday, December 13, 2000

• Recent News has been updated with one story for December 6 about a court ruling in Michigan allowing landlords to refuse to rent to unmarried couples on the grounds that unmarried cohabitation offends the landlord's religious beliefs.

Tuesday, December 12, 2000

• Domestic Partner News has been updated with one story for December 5, 2000.

• Recent News has been updated with one story for December 9.

Friday, December 8, 2000

• Domestic Partner News has been updated with one story for today about the new domestic partner benefits program for employees of America West Airlines.  AWA has followed the lead of Southwest Airlines by instituting a plan that it open to same and opposite sex domestic partners of airline employees.  Other major airlines, such as Delta, United, American, Northwest, and US Air, restrict their plans to the partners of gay and lesbian employees and exclude opposite-sex unmarried partners.  A second story reports that 20% of large employers now offer domestic partner benefits. A third story reports on a tax break proposed for unmarried couples in Norway.

• Recently Released Books has been updated with two new books for single parents.

• Recent News has been updated with one story for December 8, and one for December 6, 2000.

• Scott Wildman, candidate for Los Angeles City Council, has joined AASP and has been added to the list of Honorary Members.

Wednesday, December 6, 2000

• Domestic Partner News has been updated with one story for today about a new domestic partner bill introduced in the California Legislature, and one story for December 4 about Skidmore College instituting a domestic partner benefits program for faculty and staff.

• Recent News has been updated with two stories for December 4, 2000.

• John D. Hall, a Democrat and Representative in the North Carolina State Legislature, has been added to the list of Elected Officials who are members of AASP.

Tuesday, December 5, 2000

• Domestic Partner News has been updated with one story about the new domestic partner benefits program for employees of Southwest Airlines.  Unlike all of the other U.S. airlines which restrict benefits to same-sex partners only, the plan at Southwest is gender neutral and open to all unmarried partners.

• The most recent issue of the online version of UnmarriedAmerica, AASP's quarterly newsletter, has been added to the site.

Monday, December 4, 2000

• Steven L. Soboroff, senior advisor to Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, has joined AASP and has been added to the list of Honorary Members.  Soboroff will be on the ballot as a mayoral candidate in April 2001.  Two other mayoral candidates, Los Angeles City Attorney James Hahn and Los Angeles City Councilman Joel Wachs, have previously joined AASP as honorary members.  Ken Hillman, Lieutenant in the Los Angeles Police Department, and candidate for Los Angeles City Council, has also joined AASP as an honorary member.  Addie Mae Miller, candidate for mayor of Los Angeles in 2001 has also become an honorary member of AASP.

• Recent News has been updated with two stories for November 23, one for November 28, and one for December 1, 2000.

• Domestic Partner News has been updated with two stories for November 21, one for November 22, two for November 23, one for November 30, and two for December 1, 2000.

• International News Archives has been updated with two stories about Australia, one on November 16, concerning the rising number of young single workers who are living in poverty, and the other about a federal proposal to prohibit single women and lesbians from using various forms of artificial reproductive technologies.  A story has also been added for November 15 concerning unmarried women coming under attack in parts of Nigeria.

Friday, December 1, 2000

• Recent News has been updated with one story for today about AASP moving into new offices in Glendale, California.  We have also added a story about Brigham Young University inviting AASP executive director to participate in a legal conference in February 2001.

What's New -- November 2000