"McCormick submitted nearly 12,300 signatures to qualify for the Nov. 4 gubernatorial ballot on Wednesday, arriving at Secretary of State William Galvin's election division office in Boston with running-mate Tracy Post to hand deliver the locally certified signatures.
Senate District 6 represents the entire city of Sacramento, and since redistricting in 2011, includes parts of Yolo County. Almost 50 percent of its constituents are registered with the Democrat Party. Added with the district's voting record, it should be no surprise that the area is considered a Democratic stronghold.
When Ferguson, Mo. police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown on the afternoon of August 9, he killed an innocent man. This is an indisputable fact.
I am not speaking of theological innocence. I have no idea whether or not Brown had been cleansed of original sin, or blasphemed against the Holy Ghost, or shed the blood of his fellow human beings. Those things are handled at a level well above my pay grade.
Walking around Istanbul in 2012 I could easily pick up on the optimism and growing restlessness of its residents. The economy was booming -- Turkey was the second fastest growing economy in the world, behind China. However, not everyone benefited. Right next to the epicenter of the economic flourish, Taksim Square, a massive slum hosting mostly African migrants grew more crowded by the week.
Every semester when I teach my students about the media, I present them with the neglected history of American investigative journalism. I tell them about Ida B. Wells, who documented lynchings across the South in the late 1800s. I tell them about the muckrakers like Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, and Lincoln Steffens, who documented and exposed inhumane working conditions and the corrupt collusion between business magnates and politicians during the Progressive Era.
While veterans and the general public remain outraged over the mistreatment of veterans at VA medical facilities while executives collect thousands of dollars in bonuses, the most recent VA reform package did not dump the bonuses for high-level employees. This essentially means that business as usual will continue at the VA.
"Remember that the words 'political parties,' 'corporation' and 'company' are not even mentioned in our Constitution, raising the central question of why they are ruling 'we the people' today.”—Ralph Nader
“These people do not own the land and for heaven’s sake, it’s very plain that the Army should not be using automatic weapons against we the people; that’s not part of our Constitution. It’s just unbelievable that this could be happening in America!”—Cliven Bundy
"In an open primary, all registered voters can vote for any candidate, regardless of their political affiliation or lack thereof.
For all the misgivings Americans may have about the Iraq War -- its rationale, its execution, and its aftermath -- there is at least one thing of which to be proud: our support of a free, autonomous, and democratic Kurdistan.
The story of the Kurds and their steadfast support of an Iraq free from fascism of either the Baathist or Islamist type is one worth telling and retelling. It’s one of uncommon moral clarity.
A New Jersey Federal District Court judge dismissed a lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of New Jersey’s closed primary system.