Of the 13 sixth-grade girls asked to explain why they want to take part in an Alexandria, Virginia-based after-school program called SOHO, Katherine Ivette Cuellar Moreno was the only one who typed her response. The rest were hand-written, and one was submitted in pencil.
On the heels of a court ruling that shut down medical marijuana dispensaries in the state of Michigan, a new study by the RAND Corporation finds that crime actually goes up when such facilities are closed down.
When medical marijuana dispensaries close, crime rises in the surrounding
An Austin-based anti-abortion group’s controversial New York City billboard has been taken down, according to reports from various media outlets. Heroic Media founder Brian Follett is also behind the new Life Always group that put up the billboard targeting African Americans, as the Texas Independent previously reported.
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement slates more people for deportation, a new analysis from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse shows that more cases are being rejected by immigration courts that determine individuals should not be subject to deportation. Immigration courts dismissed almost one-third of cases referred by More…
Interesting new development in the shadowy world of 501(c)(4) spending. Forbes is reporting that a Los Angeles tax lawyer is advising clients that their contributions to 501(c)(4) groups could be subject to a weighty 35 percent “federal gift tax”:
In a memo, Ofer Lion, a lawyer with Mitchell Silberberg
Via the Corner at the National Review Online: Two departments within the city of Los Angeles received $111 million from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. With that money, the departments had expected to save or create 264 jobs. In the end, the total was just 55.
Sometime this week, the Census Bureau will release figures on poverty in the United States in 2009. The Associated Press asked some demographers to sketch out the probable results — and they are grim.
The demographers estimate the poverty rate will increase year-on-year from 13.2 percent to about More…
Earlier this year, Stanton C. Hazelroth appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee to testify as the head of the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, the country’s largest public infrastructure bank. Founded with seed funding of just $181 million in 1999, the bank has since More…
President Obama raised $1 million for House Democrats last night at a fundraiser in Los Angeles at the home of John Wells, a producer of television shows such as West Wing, ER and China Beach. The price of attendance was $2,500 per person, but co-hosts — who included J.J. Abrams, Steven Spielberg, More…
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