Sacramento News and Review, October 6, 2011 by David Downs
http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/whose-kids-smoke-more/content?oid=4025030
If you want to understand the effects of alternatives—if we’re talking about legalizing cannabis—you’ve got to go where people have actually experimented with different policies, and so that’s why it’s worthwhile looking at the Dutch system.
-KQED-FM, California Report, October 4, 2011 Reporter Scott Shafer
http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201110040850/a
“The data kind of speaks for itself. Juvenile crime has been going down pretty dramatically. We haven’t seen any increase in youth ending up in the prison system, so the results look pretty positive.”
-Colorlines, October 5, 2011 by Jorge Rivas
http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/10/study_locking_juvenile_offenders_behind_bars_is_costly_and_ineffective.html
“We need to reduce incarceration of young people to the very small dangerous few. And we’ve got to recognize that if we lock up a lot of kids, it’s going to increase crime.”
-KQED-FM, Forum, October 6, 2011 Host Dave Iverson
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201110060930
“There’s over 20 counties that currently have court-ordered caps on their jails…. By all indications, many of these jails have much lower risk people who, with some smart programming, can be moved out to make room for the state folks.”
-The New York Times, October 8, 2011 by Jennifer Medina
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/us/california-begins-moving-prisoners.html
“This is the largest change in the California state system in my lifetime,” said Barry Krisberg…. “Given that what we had was completely broken and was the most expensive, overcrowded and least effective in America, there’s some hope that this will change it.”
-San Francisco Chronicle, October 5, 2011 by Joe Garofoli
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/04/MNAM1LDF8C.DTL
“Cain is sort of out there on Mars, saying we’re going to cut revenues below what anyone else is proposing,” Auerbach said. “I don’t know how this can be taken seriously.”
-The Sacramento Bee, October 13, 2011 by Alana Semuels
(Go to G:Law School in the NewsNews Clips for article)
There’s an economic argument for simplicity, too, said Alan Auerbach…. Scrapping the current complicated tax system would reduce the difficulty taxpayers have in complying with the IRS, and would make it more difficult for people to avoid paying taxes.
The Atlantic, October 3, 2011 by Benjamin Schwartz
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/police-and-poetry/8691/
New York’s sustained, broad, and deep drop in violent crime occurred despite the city’s glaring economic inequality, its stubbornly unyielding poverty, educational deficiencies, number of “fatherless high-risk youth,” and the “social isolation” of its underclass.
-The Wall Street Journal, October 3, 2011 by John Yoo
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204226204576603114226847494.html
The Yemeni-American cleric killed by a U.S. drone strike on Friday was linked to the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight over Detroit in 2009, the shooting spree at Fort Hood in Texas that killed 13 that same year, and the near-miss car bombing of Times Square in 2010. Yet, from the howls on the left, you would never know that President Barack Obama had won another victory in the war on terror.
-San Francisco Chronicle, October 11, 2011 by Debra J. Saunders
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2011/10/10/EDQO1LFNHL.DTL
The Obama White House has failed to make its own snuff memo public. The Times story is based on a leak. That Times story must have felt like deja vu all over again to UC Berkeley law Professor John Yoo…. “I’m glad they’re hypocrites,” Yoo told me.
Public Broadcasting Service, Mediashift, October 3, 2011 by Barbara Hernandez
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/10/did-apple-collude-with-publishers-to-fix-prices-on-e-books276.html
“It’s difficult for the publishing industry to change over from the traditional model that it’s developed over the centuries,” he said, “and to adapt is really, really hard.”
San Francisco Chronicle, October 2, 2011 by Nanette Asimov
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/02/BA301LBD9Q.DTL&type=printable
Currently, Oppenheimer said, college admissions officials may take into consideration whether applicants have had to overcome a disadvantage—but they can’t use race to determine if there has been a disadvantage. “This (bill) would permit that, as long as it doesn’t constitute a preference,” he said.
The New York Times, October 1, 2011 by Shoshana Walter
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/us/those-gosh-darn-criminals-can-go-to-heck.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=Berkeley&st=nyt
“It used to be that police forces were overwhelmingly white and male, pretty uniformly and aggressively homophobic, and politically and culturally conservative,” he said. But as departments have diversified and surveillance technologies have proliferated, “police officers are expected to get along better with people now much more than they used to be,” he said.
The Washington Post, September 27, 2011 by Rachel Weiner
http://wapo.st/oapHmt
“If you were to visualize the 9th congressional district on a map, there’s not a single state or federal legislator who lives within the confines of this new district.”
Foreign Policy Journal, September 26, 2011 by Alejandro Sueldo
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/09/26/the-reset-needs-a-new-angle/
But as NATO pulls out of Afghanistan, Washington’s need for Russia’s support diminishes and the urgency for filling the gap in relations created by NATO’s withdrawal grows. However, finding common ground to close this void will be difficult, in great part because Washington’s and Moscow’s interests often diverge.