California's correctional system has received a federal order to release 9,600 prisoners by December. Administrators are no longer able to avoid releasing inmates early and the governor
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While President Barack Obama held a one-hour news conference last Friday to discuss, among other topics, the NSA's surveillance of Americans' e-mails
Dramatic change in the area of the Great Salt Lake over the past 25 years. Left: August 1985. Right: September 2010. The lake was filled to near capacity in 1985
Welcome to the 2013 Crony Capitalist Awards: Senate Edition. For these awards we define crony capitalism as the disproportionate influence by special interests (non-individuals) on elected officials. One of
The Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Wetlands June 2010 // Credit U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat Missions Gallery
Global Climate Change Part 2 of a 4 part series
Discussions about global climate
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Last week, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a magistrate judge's 2010 ruling that made cell phone data constitutionally protected from government intrusion
On Monday, Lansing City Clerk Chris Swope received an approximate total of 6,400 signatures that were collected by the Coalition for a Safer Lansing for its marijuana legalization initiative.
Since the start of the Great Recession in 2008, the question on most people’s minds has been, “When will the housing market recover?”
The good news is that for
The debate on tax policy seems to emerge once every year as budget negotiations deadlock and little substantive progress is made to address the nation's fiscal needs.
This
California State Senator Ed Hernandez has introduced
Senate Bill 491. The bill expands the scope of practice for a Nurse Practitioner (NP) in order to allow them to set up
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California State Senator Ed Hernandez has introduced Senate Bill 491. The bill expands the scope of practice for a Nurse Practitioner (NP) in order to