More states file “on time” -- on their own standard, anyway
Truthful accounting includes timely accounting. Our governments have made some progress on this score, but we believe there is still a lot of room for improvement.
The cost of education has undergone dramatic changes over the last century. Institutions like Harvard, Yale, and others were initially attended by 0.001 percent of the population. By 1900, the average tuition for private schools was anywhere from $75 to $300 per student.
Those figures have dramatically increased since. Today, the average cost of tuition for a private, 4-year, university sits at about $30,000 per year. Two-year community colleges run about $3,000 a year per student.
Just a few months from the federally mandated deadline to reduce California's prison population by 137.5 percent capacity, Governor Jerry Brown released a plan to partner with private prisons and a correctional staff union. It would invest more than $700 million over the next two years for the construction of new contracted lock-up facilities bringing incarceration numbers down to required levels.
President Obama made his case for military action against Syria to the American people on Tuesday for the country's use of chemical weapons against its own people, despite Russian involvement that prompted Syria to agree to turn over any remaining chemical weapons and sign the international treaty banning such weapons. Currently, Syria is among five countries who have not adopted the treaty.
The 2013 Kentucky Health Issues Poll shows that 78 percent of those individuals that participated in the polling support legalizing mar
Assembly Bill 484 -- authored by Assemblymember Susan Bonilla -- passed the Senate floor on September 10 by a vote of 26 to 7 with 6 senators abstaining. The bill's purpose is to overhaul California's standardized testing system with new tests more aligned with Common Core standards.
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Motorcycle riders outside the National Mall in Washington, D.C., during the 20th Rolling Thunder Ride for Freedom, May 27, 2007.