Month: December 2013

Lock-Em-Up Mentality Costs Money

Here is what happens when you are governed by wingnuts whose thinking on crime doesn’t extend beyond the punitive. BOISE – Nonviolent criminals are being kept behind bars in Idaho twice as long as they are in the rest of...

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Profile on Harry Reid

I don’t pay much attention to state-level politics, even in my home-state of Pennsylvania, but Jon Ralston single-handedly makes Nevada politics compelling. He is assisted, of course, by the curious and unique history of...

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People Hate Congress

This isn’t good: Members of Congress and lobbyists are among the professionals who have the lowest honesty and ethical standards, according to a new poll. Only 6 percent of people in the United States rate lobbyists as...

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