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GOP Mardi Gras: Gearing Up for Michigan Primary

GOP Mardi Gras: Gearing Up for Michigan Primary

Posted 02/21/2012 by with 0 Comments

With next Tuesday's Michigan Primary looming over the GOP candidates and a debate scheduled for tomorrow, tension increases between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. This primary will prove to be an important deciding factor on who will be the front runner for Super Tuesday on...

How the Presidential Candidates celebrate Presidents’ Day 2012

Posted 02/20/2012 by with 0 Comments

While Americans around the country celebrate George Washington's birthday with the day off, the 2012 presidential candidates are hard at work in their campaigns for the White House. With primaries in both Michigan and Arizona a week away, the Republican candidates prepare...

Presidential Election 2012 Update: Gearing Up for the Weekend

Presidential Election 2012 Update: Gearing Up for the Weekend

Posted 02/17/2012 by with 0 Comments

Heading into the weekend, the Republican presidential candidates scatter themselves throughout Georgia, Michigan, Ohio, and Idaho, while President Obama returns to Washington after a short visit to Los Angeles.     On the campaign trail... Newt Gingrich...

Electoral Reform

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Voter registration systems in need of reform

Voter registration systems in need of reform

Posted 02/15/2012 by with 4 Comments

Voter registration systems in the United States are in need of serious reform. According to a new report from the Pew Center on the States, the voter registration process in states across the country...
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Education

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Standardized testing coming under greater scrutiny

Standardized testing coming under greater scrutiny

Posted 02/16/2012 by with 1 Comment

When Governor Jerry Brown delivered his remarks on February 11 to the State Democratic Convention, he touched on what he called “this whole standardized testing business” in California’s public...
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Activism

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What happened to the Tea Party?

What happened to the Tea Party?

Posted 02/07/2012 by with 5 Comments

As a 22-year-old young man in a denim jacket, with long, dark hair down to the middle of my back, and a big sign that said something against the banks, you might have guessed that I was an Occupy...
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Elections 2012

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GOP Mardi Gras: Gearing Up for Michigan Primary

GOP Mardi Gras: Gearing Up for Michigan Primary

Posted 02/21/2012 by with 0 Comments

With next Tuesday's Michigan Primary looming over the GOP candidates and a debate scheduled for tomorrow, tension increases between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. This primary will prove to be...
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Energy and Water

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Californians unaware that water comes from Sacramento Delta

Californians unaware that water comes from...

Posted 02/14/2012 by with 2 Comments

78% of Californians in a recent survey said they didn’t know what the Bay Delta was. This strongly implies they also don’t know, depending on where they live, that some or most of their water may...
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Economy

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Obama’s election year budget draws bipartisan ire

Obama’s election year budget draws...

Posted 02/15/2012 by with 1 Comment

Amid the heated rhetoric of a presidential election year, President Barack Obama's latest federal budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2013 (which starts on October 1, 2012) is already eliciting...
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Immigration

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Hispanics becoming integral part of U.S. labor force

Hispanics becoming integral part of U.S. labor...

Posted 02/14/2012 by with 2 Comments

Coinciding with the next two presidential election cycles in 2012 and 2016, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is projecting Hispanics to have a significant presence in the nation’s labor force over...
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War and Foreign Policy

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Pentagon to FAA: Send in the drones

Pentagon to FAA: Send in the drones

Posted 02/16/2012 by with 2 Comments

The Pentagon wants to “desegregate” national air space. A spokesman made the announcement last week at a robotic technology conference held in Washington, D.C. Military officials say that...
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