Politics
In Episode #1, Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (the White House "Drug Czar"), discusses ending the "War on Drugs," treating drugs as a public health issue, the problems of prescription drugs and drugged driving, the federal government's response to state...
As promised, I made my way down to the Bay Bridge toll plaza at 5am today to witness the inaugural moments of the new congestion pricing system. It was cold and just beginning to grow light when I arrived, and the administration building parking lot was packed with media vans. A few feet away on...
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that will likely make it easier for white collar criminals to continue to swindle and scheme…
Much of California’s wheeling and dealing is done in Sacramento, where state senators are pushing a bill that urges California public entities not to invest in or do...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will visit Silicon Valley on Wednesday in the hopes of attracting capital as well as tech-savvy minds to his “New Silicon Valley” just outside of Moscow. The President will meet with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the CEO of Google and give a speech at...
While the purpose of the census is to gauge the size of populations such as the Burmese-American community through a number, even more can be learned in the stories of those people behind the statistics.
One of those refugees from Burma is Ashin Kovida. Here, he is just a young man with a warm...
Closing arguments in the Proposition 8 trial yesterday ran for five hours. Though the plaintiff and defense teams were packed with lawyers, two spoke for most of that time. Ted Olson, who famously argued for Bush in Bush vs. Gore, spoke for the plaintiffs. Charles Cooper, another well-known...
Proposition 8 backers are focusing their closing statements on the "definition of marriage." Attorney Charles Cooper argued before the Judge that California and every other governing state for millennia has tried to channel procreative sexual conduct between men and women into an enduring union...
Inside of a densely packed courtroom, U.S. District Court Justice Vaughn Walker asked plaintiff's Attorney Ted Olson:
“When is it right for the court to weigh in on a state’s voter approved law?”
Olson said, “It depends on what the state is trying to do.”
The gray-haired attorney focused his...
The eyes of America are on the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, as lawyers in the trial to overturn Proposition 8 deliver their closing arguments today. Justice Vaughn Walker has given both sides a list of 39 questions that he’d like to hear the answers to as the trial comes to an end.
In 2008...
Connecting the dots: top news stories for Tuesday, June 15
President Obama will address the nation tonight about the oil spill crisis in the Gulf. Maybe he’s learned “whose ass to kick.” KALW will broadcast the address, which starts at 5pm PDT…
And traveling east to the desert we learn...
Carletta Sue Kay
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