Roofies and Rape, by Denise Oliver Velez L.A. city attorney issues retaliatory charges against interracial couple over alleged lewd conduct, by Frank Vyan Walton 'Let them eat cake': The GOP and its attacks on the middle class, by Mark E Andersen Paul Ryan's triple scam on tax reform, by Jon Perr The Price of Justice, by Susan Grigsby Pssst. Might I have a word with you, Sen. Inhofe..., by Meteor Blades GOP says Obama pushes popular immigration policies to win votes. Er, that's called democracy, by Ian Reifowitz When the going gets tough, the tough go to the initiative process, by David Jarman The coming GOP meltdown on defunding, by Armando
L.A. city attorney issues retaliatory charges against interracial couple over alleged lewd conduct, by Frank Vyan Walton
'Let them eat cake': The GOP and its attacks on the middle class, by Mark E Andersen
Paul Ryan's triple scam on tax reform, by Jon Perr
The Price of Justice, by Susan Grigsby
Pssst. Might I have a word with you, Sen. Inhofe..., by Meteor Blades
GOP says Obama pushes popular immigration policies to win votes. Er, that's called democracy, by Ian Reifowitz
When the going gets tough, the tough go to the initiative process, by David Jarman
The coming GOP meltdown on defunding, by Armando
While the U.S. Postal Service has recently withstood a barrage of negative attention, from getting hacked to announcing continued multibillion-dollar deficits, it enjoys the most positive image of 13 high-profile government agencies Gallup recently tested. Younger Americans are more likely than older Americans to review the Postal Service favorably.
Campbell's boyfriend told police that he crashed into another car because he was trying to duck the gun she was waving around saying she was "ready of Ferguson." The gun discharged, striking her in the head. Police are still investigating the unnamed boyfriend's story.
Tribune Publishing's unilaterally declared discretionary time off policy caused such a fire storm of negative reaction, and threats by LA Times' staffers to sue, that the company CEO announced late last night he was rescinding the change. LA Times staffers, and those at other Tribune Publishing papers, will continue to earn and accrue vacation days and will have sick days to use during the year. They will not, as proposed, have to go to a supervisor and make a case for paid time off.
According to a 2014 report by the Treatment Advocacy Center, a nonprofit group that pushes for better mental-health policies and services, we now have 10 times more mentally ill Americans in our prisons and jails than in our remaining psychiatric institutions. In 2012, that worked out to an estimated 356,268 inmates with severe mental illness, compared with 35,000 mentally ill individuals in state psychiatric hospitals.
In 2012, that worked out to an estimated 356,268 inmates with severe mental illness, compared with 35,000 mentally ill individuals in state psychiatric hospitals.
Health Care Without Harm takes seriously the injunction in the Hippocratic Oath—“first, do no harm”—and works to improve the industry’s impact on patients, workers and the environment. Among other things, the group has encouraged large healthcare organizations to use their institutional food-purchasing power to support production of sustainable meat and produce. Recently, they have been encouraging hospitals to commit to buying meat from animals raised without the routine use of antibiotics, and a lot of hospital systems have signed on.