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Presidential Election 2012 Update: A Santorum Sweep
Presidential Election 2012 Update: A Santorum Sweep
The Republican presidential race took another turn last night, with Rick Santorum sweeping the Colorado and Minnesota caucuses and also coming in first in Missouri's "primary". While delegates were no...
USDA wants to cull the statistician herd
USDA wants to cull the statistician herd
While they don't always appear to be related, statistics and modern agriculture go hand-in-hand. Industrial farmers rely on a myriad of statistical information from acreage usage numbers to data regar...
Report:  California animal agriculture is a job creator
Report: California animal agriculture is a job creator
Over the past decade, California dairies, ranches and livestock farms have created 17,000 jobs for the state. A new report that analyzes federal data from 2000 to 2010 shows that the $289 billion a ye...
Arizona is #1 in meth use by high school students
Arizona is #1 in meth use by high school students
The Arizona Meth Project is trying hard, and succeeding at, reducing first-time meth usage by young people "through public service messaging, public policy, and community outreach."  It does so p...
California meth use still a problem
California meth use still a problem
California is so geographically huge with such a large population, that problems which are sometimes more evident elsewhere are also problems here too, even if they may not get as much attention. One ...
Dairy industry split over proposed subsidy legislation
Dairy industry split over proposed subsidy legislation
A bipartisan proposal to reform federal milk subsidies drew support from a leading dairy farmers group on Monday after it was announced that participation in a component milk supply-control program wo...
California places 48th in national freedom index
California places 48th in national freedom index
The Mercatus Center at George Mason University has published an update and a revision of a 2007 study entitled “Freedom in the 50 States: An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom”. The report analyze...
Open primaries put to the test in Idaho and South Carolina
Open primaries put to the test in Idaho and South Carolina
In the last month, federal district courts in Idaho and South Carolina have handed down rulings on Republican party lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of each state’s open primary system. &...
Food stamp usage continues to climb
Food stamp usage continues to climb
Perhaps the most damning evidence of a false economic recovery is the sustained rise in food stamp usage across the country. Unemployment numbers can be groomed and refined, the Consumer Price Index c...
Third Party and Independent activists united in opposition to full-body scanners and enhanced pat-downs
Third Party and Independent activists united in opposition to full-body scanners and enhanced pat-downs
It may seem like the current uproar and ongoing revolt against the Transportation Security Administration’s newest security protocols came out of nowhere, but opposition to full-body scanners has b...