THE MOM BRIGADE: Nettelhorst was a failing educational backwater in Lake View (Chicago, Illinois) when some determined moms got involved-and sparked a tremendous improvement. On a windy morning this past fall, 20 parents gathered inside Nettelhorst Elementary School in east Lake View, some with... Read more...
A court-appointed monitor will oversee the use of "stop and frisk" searches by city police, a high-profile part of the mayor's efforts to combat violent crime, according to a settlement agreement announced Tuesday. Authorities also will take additional steps to make sure the stops are only ma... Read more...
Saying it is "unfair for Florida taxpayers to subsidize drug addiction," Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday signed legislation requiring adults applying for welfare assistance to undergo drug screening. "It's the right thing for taxpayers," Scott said after signing the measure. "It's the right thing ... Read more...
THE legal scholar Derrick A. Bell foresaw that mass incarceration, like earlier systems of racial control, would continue to exist as long as it served the perceived interests of white elites. Thirty years of civil rights litigation and advocacy have failed to slow the pace of a racially biased d... Read more...
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10/05/2011,
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By now, many of you may have heard about iPhone tracking and recording your location data, but is there anything else being extracted from cell phones without our knowledge? If you're a Michigan state resident, the answer is an alarming "maybe." Michigan's police department have been using... Read more...
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18/04/2011,
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Trenton's New Black Panther Party on Thursday denounced a neo-Nazi rally set for tomorrow at the Statehouse, across from New Jersey’s World War II Memorial, and urged community members to join them in a counterprotest. Speaking at the city’s Veterans Memorial on South Broad Street, Panthe... Read more...
Target Corp. (TGT), the second-largest U.S. discount retailer, will pay $22.5 million to settle claims it illegally dumped hazardous waste in California, said San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis. The settlement, announced today in an e-mailed statement from Dumanis, resolves a ci... Read more...
A scientist has discovered 34,000-year-old bacteria buried underneath a Californian desert. The discovery was made after researchers dug up salt crystals below Death Valley in Eastern California for climate research. Ancient microbes were found trapped inside tiny, fluid-filled chambers with... Read more...
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11/01/2011,
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The issues in this case are not merely problems with paperwork or a matter of dotting i’s and crossing t’s. Instead, they lie at the heart of the protections given to homeowners and borrowers… From the ruling The Too Big To Fail banks have been waiting with trepidation for a ruling from... Read more...