Posts tagged senator

Calif. Sen. Yee urges parents not to buy M-rated games

by Alexander Sliwinski (Nov 28th 2007 10:59AM)

California State Senator Leland Yee gave a little poke to parents saying they shouldn't buy M-rated games for their children. But, like a good politician, he made the statement on Monday, three days after the official start of the shopping season, so we figured we'd follow his lead and report it a ...

Iowa senator tells colleagues to stop playing games

by Kyle Orland (Apr 23rd 2007 11:00AM)

Usually when a politician talks about video games, they're worried about the deleterious effects they have on children. At least one politician, though, is just as worried about the computer gaming problem among his fellow politicians. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports on freshman Iowa State ...

Let's tax games, proposes Texas senator

by James Ransom-Wiley (Apr 28th 2006 3:25PM)

Senator Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa of Texas recently proposed a plan that would generate an estimated $65 million, which could be used to build or upgrade public schools. That plan is to apply a special tax to video game sales. The logic behind the proposal is that if school-aged kids are ...