"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Denying a request for a rehearing made by the State of Wyoming and the Colorado Mining Association, the 10th U.S. Circuit of Appeals upheld its unanimous decision in favor of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule last week. The Roadless Area…
A new high-resolution map created by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the University of Maryland, College Park and Woods Hole Research Center shows an accurate picture of the height of trees in forests all over the world. “Knowing the…
Those rascals at the TSA haven’t updated their Week at a Glance feature yet (I think the unfortunate individual responsible for the task is out sick or on vacation or something), so I did some searching and discovered that the…
Aequitas Compliance Solutions, a Newport Beach mortgage regulatory compliance firm, was hired by Phil Ting, the San Francisco assessor-recorder, to audit the files of nearly 400 foreclosed properties in his county. Their report titled “Foreclosure in California: A Crisis of…
Beverly Gage, associate professor of 20th-century U.S. history at Yale University, has a fascinating post at Slate about the Commission on Industrial Relations created by President William Howard Taft in 1912 near the end of his term to address the growing fears of a…
In 2001, the US military had about 50 drones in its arsenal; now it has almost 7,500 and with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan now being delegated mostly to contractors, they’re on their way home. “The stuff from Afghanistan is going to…