Malloy Tries To Cut $22 Million Using Line-Item Veto
Governor Malloy has employed the line-item veto to eliminate $22 million from the state budget, the first time a Connecticut governor...
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Bernie's Transformative Campaign Coming To A Close
Tomorrow will be the unofficial, if not the official, end of Bernie Sanders remarkable, transformative campaign. Hillary Clinton should certainly pick...
More Prosecutorial Misconduct May Chill Recanted Testimony
It was nice to see the NY Times editorial today focusing on the pervasive misconduct by prosecutors around the country, especially detailing...
Reality Check – Initial Data On Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage Hike
Monday’s Reality Check – a weekly presentation of facts and figures to help us all discuss important issues with some degree of understanding....
GOP And Halperin Refuse to Denounce Trump's Racial Attacks
As Donald Trump expands his attacks on the Mexican ancestry of Judge Curiel, who is presiding over a lawsuit against Trump, to...
Ken Starr Needs Three Tries To "Speak Freely"
I wanted to follow up on the Ken Starr story at Baylor that I had a post on few days ago. As you...
Koch Mind-Set Reflected In Florida School Scandal
An article in the NY Times yesterday gave us all a window into the mind-set of one of the Koch brothers...
Prosecutorial Misconduct In Florida Could Be Massive
It really has turned into a bad couple of days for government prosecutors. First, we had the revelations about the state...
Trump U Scam Morphing Into Campaign Bribery
It’s looking more and more like the Trump University fraud is morphing into a campaign finance scandal as well. The University...
CFPB Cracks Down On PayDay Lenders; Time To Restart Postal Bank
Yesterday’s announcement by the CFPB to at least try to put some controls around payday lenders is a good step forward but...