While most four year colleges and universities are retooling and transforming their institutions to prepare students for positions at top, large-scale corporations, community colleges are developing initiatives to help students find work with small businesses and startups.

Global Climate Change : A four part discussion on long-term global socioeconomic goals and the impact those goals will have on climate change.

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The first filing period for campaign finance has passed and the prospective candidates for California Governor in 2014 have reported.

^st and June 30^th of this year. In comparison, his prospective opponents, former Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado and Assemblymember Tim Donnelly, raised a little over $400,000 combined in the same time period.

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U.S. taxpayers will fork over $12 billion for border security this year. That’s the cost of room and board for 250,000 college students, 4 million iPads, 300 million frozen meals, 13 major sports teams and franchises, Shell’s debt on Iranian oil, a B-2 bomber, and the cure for Lou Gehrig’s disease. Why is protecting the perimeter so pricey?

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A recent trend in the naming of legislation is to include the purported benefits in the title, hence, the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”—aka Obamacare. Unfortunately, experience has shown that legislation titles tend to be diametrically opposed to reality, as in the “paperwork reduction act”.