Are California’s Vaunted State Colleges Losing Their Competitive Edge?

There’s a virtual trade imbalance affecting California’s state university system that’s the result of both higher costs for public education in the Golden State and a diminution of quality in its college programs.

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Internet activists crash White House phone lines calling for an end to the War on Drugs

On Friday June 17th, exactly 40 years after President Richard Nixon declared a “War on Drugs,” Internet activists organizing from the social news and activism website, Reddit.com, called the White House en masse to demand an end to the War on Drugs, calling it a “trillion dollar incarceration machine” with a measurable failure to reduce drug use, or harm from drug use.

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