Seems like they are promoting an old feature and calling it a political boundary feature tool. The promotion, though, will encourage more Google maps users to participate politically—I’m all for that. Not sure […]

There is other ways to advertise, besides using your users posts.

So many incompetent teachers out there, and many competent ones that would not be comfortable wielding a firearm. How many teachers lose their temper with wisecracking kids in the classroom? Zero tolerance for […]

Rio de Janeiro is undergoing major a major municipal face lift in preparation for the World Cup, the results are economic prosper, yes, and displacement of thousands of homes in the Favelas.

Doesn’t the Mayan calendar actually extend way past 12.21.12? They were signaling the end of a cycle, what that means, may be contested, but the end of the world-not likely.

Not sure if we can cure or prevent mental illness Cassidy, but we need to start understanding the challenges associated with caring for people affected with mental disorder and their families. We are only a few […]

Sustainable measures by the home owner and developers should be taken to ensure Low Impact Development (LID) in California.

This is a really cool article @bizurk, is it lunch time yet? @iandawes

Agreed, blowing the whistle shouldn’t be like winning the lottery. What is most concerning is that ships just arbitrarily dump their loads into the Bay. If we are now hearing about one ship’s seemingly cavalier […]

The Grand Forks, ND referenced case, with a farmer and stray cows, is a ridiculous use of such technology and warrants careful policy on how domestic drone use will continued to be used. Orwell was a smart man <a href='http://ivn.us/voters/Chad_Peace/&#039; […]

School counseling services for many are the only programs financially available to students and their families. Non-profit organizational involvement is supplemental and a necessary step.

The number is surprising and a large majority of these events do not make it into the mainstream news cycle. Full report here: http://ivn.us/relative-bearings/files/2012/12/school-shootings.pdf

@lucaseaves this is a great segment! The most intriguing fact: “75% of the aluminum manufactured since the 1800s is still in use today, in some cycled form.” I learned a new eco-term today, “cycle-to-cycle product”.

That would be an interesting statistic, @cassidynb, I wonder if the percentages of suicide instances among the military population is higher than that of the country’s adult population?

We need to go beyond having a registry for ‘abusiveness’ records of the mentally ill. The resources for care and treatment and overall understanding about mental illness is non-existent on a scale that this […]

It’s not just keeping firearms out of the hands of mentally unstable persons, it’s addressing the policy and healthcare resource availability to the mentally ill and their families, which are seriously lacking in […]

Thanks for the heads up Lucas, will be anticipating the IVN coverage on these events. How will foreign policy turn, if at all, without Clinton as SoS?

We are organizing to preserve our union’s and workers rights here in the U.S., but still don’t enforce these “human rights”, in factories across the world. Workers safety and health are constantly jeopardized and […]

I don’t think we should de-value the experience of receiving a formal higher education, however, I agree that we should not feed the unbalanced prestige of four year university education vs. certificate programs […]

So ready to start participating in this program, public access bicycles….should have had them a long time ago.

Still want to know how Colorado and Washington are dealing with their own legislation….is this a on-shelf product / over the counter. Are developments of commercial products in the near future?

@lucaseaves, were you suspect?

This generation does not want a Party that discriminates against anyone, let alone the largest growing demographic in the country. Border politics is a divisive issue that cannot be addressed with one-sided politics.

Obama puts a significant value on equal opportunity for females in the White House.

Sounds like an idea that is a perfect niche for metropolitan San Diego.

Yeah it does. The best diversity of trails and nature in San Diego County. I took a hiking course from Grossmont College once and all we did was hit up a new trail every Saturday. Mission Trails is where it’s at!

It is always important to consider external and internal causes of the downtrodden and deviant. Municipalities have responsibilities to the people that live there whether their residency in normative or not.

It would be interesting to learn what the levels of hierarchies are for UN participation…member vs observer non member, and the privileges/authorities associated with those titles.

Redlands is a turn of the century town built up around the Citrus industry and the railroad. It is a dying city in which most of its upper class residents are military or government employed in some way. It is […]

I have heard of it, but it would be great for IVN to do a piece on these other programs mentioned

Love this format of receiving news, it creates a dialogue that is more personal from contributors to the readers’ ear. The audio quotes (Barney Frank) are really powerful and can create a new level of […]

Are the people of Egypt in support of Morsi?

Does this reallocation affect California in any way? The farming communities of the Imperial Valley get the majority of their water from the Colorado River.

I have always wanted to go to 57 Degrees since I moved into the neighborhood. Its right down the hill on Washington and Hancock St.

Wow! This is a really cool, yet really sad tool.

It is interesting to see the different methods of renewable energy generation fill in the production chart for the last four years. Geothermal extraction, a expensive and relative environmentally destructive […]

5.4 billion in education cuts and political minority discrimination may not sit well with most votes and other opposing party members.

The offsets of the swap would be mitigated through the funding allocated to the UC system from Prop. 30. It seems like the UC system always gets first dibs, while the CSU system is left in the dust. Most UC […]

Its all about oil.

Alex, yes I would agree. National Parks are not on the scrap list just yet though , only State Parks. Two different systems of recreation and land management. It might do the system some good to be managed by […]

Gerrymandering is now referred to as “packing”, an interesting deviance from the original etymology –originally coined by a Boston newspaper in 1812 who accused Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry of redrawing […]