- Rhode Island Considers First-Of-Its Kind ‘Homeless Bill Of Rights’ « CBS Connecticut on Tue May 15, 2012 6:48 AM PDT
Eddie Vega has been homeless for a year. He was waiting for a bus one day last week when a police officer rolled up to ask what he was doing and where he was headed. Vega said it’s the kind of subtle harassment that happens all the time.
“I get the looks,” said …
- California's Jerry Brown offers budget plan to close $16-billion gap on Tue May 15, 2012 6:22 AM PDT
Brown, who promised voters while campaigning in 2010 that he would end years of budget trickery in Sacramento, acknowledged that he was relying on "one-time revenues to handle one-time problems."He added: "This is the best that I could do."The revised spending plan would cut Medi …
- Is Ron Paul's Army Going Rogue? - Business Insider on Sat May 12, 2012 6:58 AM PDT
In recent reports from the Idaho Statesman, several of Paul's Idaho activists have detailed plans for a "hostile takeover" of the state Republican Party convention, and a "scorched earth" strategy to overturn the results of Idaho's March caucuses, which Romney won with 62% of the …
- Sweatshop Workers Making Obama Sweatshirts Subjected to Brutal Conditions, Racial Harassment, Called Lazy and Stupid on Fri May 11, 2012 11:05 AM PDT
A $95 sweatshirt currently being sold in President Obama’s campaign store is the work of Alexander Wang, a designer who’s facing a class action suit in federal court for allegedly running a sweatshop where garment workers were forced to work 100 hour weeks in a fact …
- 10 Theses of Contention on the Power and Efficacy of "Anthropogenic Global Warming" Theory on Thu May 10, 2012 2:42 PM PDT
Few global issues are as fervently debated today as Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory. It is folly to use the term "climate change" as the climate has eternally been in a state of natural change, where even a child can recognize the four seasons. Instead, we will stick wi …
- Obesity fight must shift from personal blame: U.S. panel on Tue May 8, 2012 7:27 AM PDT
America's obesity epidemic is so deeply rooted that it will take dramatic and systemic measures - from overhauling farm policies and zoning laws to, possibly, introducing a soda tax - to fix it, the influential Institute of Medicine said on Tuesday.
In an ambitious 478-page repo …
- L.A. Readies Plastic Bag Ban on Tue May 8, 2012 7:12 AM PDT
This month, the Los Angeles city council is expected to ban single-use plastic bags. “[T]he ban is an attempt by the city to reduce litter,” says the Los Angeles Daily News. But it is likely to reduce something else: jobs.
“[A] city ban could prompt the layoff …
