Court orders gov’t to show info on secret funding of anti-Cuban 5 press
The U.S. State Department must respond to a Freedom of Information Request asking for info on the under the table payment of Miami area journalists covering the Cuban 5 trial.
“Free the Cuban Five” is heard in Maine
Members of the 23-year old organization Let Cuba Live recently established what they call the Maine Campaign to Free the Cuban Five.
Covered California rolls out education campaign for October enrollment
Covered California will not be available to undocumented residents (leaving an estimated three million residents without coverage) or to people who are now incarcerated.
President Obama rolls out higher education plan
President Obama debuted his new proposal for curbing costs of higher education.
Manning gets 35 years, will seek White House pardon
A military judge sentenced Army Pfc. Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks.
California prisoners’ hunger strike enters seventh week
As a hunger strike by California prison inmates entered its seventh week Aug. 19, authorities said some 130 inmates in six prisons are refusing meals.
Opponent of stop-and-frisk fears for her son
"I think about the humiliation these young men go through, being stopped and frisked, and ask myself, 'When will it be my son's first time?'"
The White House and “Cold War mentality”
President Obama told a Tonight Show audience Aug. 6 that there are times the Russians "slip back into Cold War thinking and a Cold War mentality."
The annual budget kabuki is not kabuki this year
For the past several years the winter months in Washington have been consumed in political showdowns over the federal budget.
Enshrine voting right in the Constitution
On August 5, 48 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, announcing, "This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless."
