Del. Joseph D. Morrissey on Tuesday won a special election to keep his seat in the 74th House of Delegates district, making him the first jailed lawmaker in modern Virginia history to win reelection. On the eve of the General Assembly session, Speaker of the House William J. Howell, R-Stafford and House Democratic leaders said they still find Morrissey's conduct unacceptable and will explore all options to oust him from the legislature.
On the eve of the General Assembly session, Speaker of the House William J. Howell, R-Stafford and House Democratic leaders said they still find Morrissey's conduct unacceptable and will explore all options to oust him from the legislature.
Albuquerque PD lieutenant shoots undercover police officer multiple times, by Lefty Coaster Libertarian renounces citizenship, pissed that he can't come back to the U.S., by plan9pub Maddow: Until I saw this, I didn't understand. Video: Paris sings Imagine., by Eileen B
Libertarian renounces citizenship, pissed that he can't come back to the U.S., by plan9pub
Maddow: Until I saw this, I didn't understand. Video: Paris sings Imagine., by Eileen B
Nearly $1 in $3 in state revenue comes from the federal government, according to a new analysis. While taxes are responsible for most state general revenues, the federal government is responsible for about 31.5 percent of the total, according to the nonprofit Tax Foundation. Mississippi is most reliant on the federal government, with 45.3 percent of general revenue in the most recently available fiscal year coming from the feds. Oil-rich Alaska‚ whose revenue is highly volatile, is least reliant on the federal government.
While taxes are responsible for most state general revenues, the federal government is responsible for about 31.5 percent of the total, according to the nonprofit Tax Foundation.
Mississippi is most reliant on the federal government, with 45.3 percent of general revenue in the most recently available fiscal year coming from the feds. Oil-rich Alaska‚ whose revenue is highly volatile, is least reliant on the federal government.
Two and a half million years ago, our hominin ancestors in the African savanna crafted rocks into shards that could slice apart a dead gazelle, zebra or other game animal. Over the next 700,000 years, this butchering technology spread throughout the continent and, it turns out, came to be a major evolutionary force, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Liverpool and the University of St. Andrews, both in the UK. Combining the tools of psychology, evolutionary biology and archaeology, scientists have found compelling evidence for the co-evolution of early Stone Age slaughtering tools and our ability to communicate and teach, shedding new light on the power of human culture to shape evolution.
Combining the tools of psychology, evolutionary biology and archaeology, scientists have found compelling evidence for the co-evolution of early Stone Age slaughtering tools and our ability to communicate and teach, shedding new light on the power of human culture to shape evolution.
New York’s uniformed force is nearly three times as large as the next biggest force (in Chicago), giving its five police unions a far stronger voice than elsewhere. But sheer size cannot explain the outsize role the unions have long played in the police policies of the city, one almost equal to that of the police brass and city hall. It was the unions that put semi-automatic weapons in the holsters of city police officers in the early 1990s, over the strenuous objections of the department’s leaders. It was the unions that preserved the right of officers to live in the suburbs, resisting the attempts of several mayors to make them live in the city they patrol. They have usually gotten their way on issues of staffing, shifts, overtime and pensions. And the unions have repeatedly thwarted investigations into corruption and brutality on the force—including the bathroom sodomization of Abner Louima in 1997—using tactics including warning officers of undercover operations and trying to discredit the Internal Affairs Bureau.
It was the unions that put semi-automatic weapons in the holsters of city police officers in the early 1990s, over the strenuous objections of the department’s leaders. It was the unions that preserved the right of officers to live in the suburbs, resisting the attempts of several mayors to make them live in the city they patrol. They have usually gotten their way on issues of staffing, shifts, overtime and pensions. And the unions have repeatedly thwarted investigations into corruption and brutality on the force—including the bathroom sodomization of Abner Louima in 1997—using tactics including warning officers of undercover operations and trying to discredit the Internal Affairs Bureau.