The outgoing minister is being replaced by Mervyn Storey, the DUP assemblyman for North Antrim, who has also courted controversy in the past by demanding that the biblical stories of creationism be taught as science in Northern Ireland's schools.
He will be sorely missed on the assembly benches but will still be at our meetings in Stormont as party leader and will be remaining as an MP and MEP," the West Belfast assemblyman said.
The paper reported a Brooklyn assemblyman, Dov Hikind, as saying: "The way the socks look, the jacket, the peyos [ringlets] … My question is, who's he laughing at?
SDLP officials said Mr Hume had decided to step down as an assemblyman for Foyle in the near future to reduce his workload.
First, a gay masseur "outed" DUP assemblyman Paul Berry in Dublin tabloid the Sunday World over a sexual encounter they had in Belfast's Ramada Hotel.
On Wednesday night baton rounds were fired at a crowd of more than 1,000 loyalist demonstrators while fire crews had to deal with a blaze at the constituency office of the Alliance party assemblyman for East Antrim, Stewart Dickson.
During the campaign, a bevy of national politicians descended on the district to woo its 12,293 voters, whose former assemblyman from the opposition Islamic Party (PAS) had died in May.
The rhetoric was quasi-apocalyptic from both sides: supporters of the department's right to co-sponsor the panel complained that the city council was engaging in "smear tactics and [a] campaign of intimidation", while Alan Maisel, a state assemblyman, warned of a "second Holocaust" if the discussion takes place under the endorsement of the college.
And Dov Hikind, a Democratic assemblyman from Brooklyn, waved a copy of the Hebrew Bible and invoked religious principle in arguing against the measure.
Ms Pelosi's district is a place where Mark Leno, the state assemblyman for eastern San Francisco, can find himself labelled a "conservative", even though he favours "transgendered rights" and the legalisation of cannabis for medical use.It is not just ideology.
One state assemblyman, Jose Solorio, is so outraged by Nevada's "nasty" ads that he is helping to fund a counter-campaign.
