By Terrell Jermaine Starr Article Reprint I never smoked marijuana before, and Maureen Dowd‘s haphazard experience with a weed-laced candy bar in her Denver hotel room certainly isn’t motivating me to book a plane ticket
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Same-sex marriage stands in Oregon after Supreme Court denies stay of ruling
In a one-line order, the US Supreme Court denied a stay of a federal judge’s ruling that Oregon’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. Oregon officials had ceased to defend the ban. By Warren Richey
Read moreSecret KGB Torture House Opens Its Doors in Riga
For decades, the Corner House stood as a silent reminder of Russian oppression. Now, the former KGB headquarters are open and exposing the horrors committed against the people of Riga. By: Brandon Presser Article Reprint
Read moreThe City of Detroit Just Got a Huge Bailout
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Legislature’s $195 million lifeline to help prevent steep cuts in Detroit’s pensions and the sale of city-owned art is being hailed as a major step forward in ending the
Read moreShoring up the abandoned class
By: Dawn Turner Trice Article Reprint Marc Sims is not a politician. He’s not a preacher. He’s not a police officer. Nor is he a professor of sociology or an executive director of a nonprofit.
Read moreJuror’s sudden absence deepens mystery of fugitive drug trio
By: Robert Snell Article Reprint Detroit— A federal judge is investigating why a juror in a major narcotics trial went AWOL around the same time the fez-wearing drug defendants disappeared.
Read moreChicago’s Top Public Schools Admit More White Students
Is Chicago Reverting Back to Education before Brown versus the Topeka Board of Education in 1954 with one school system for Whites and one for Blacks? By Erin Carson Article Submission Chicago’s top-ranked public high
Read moreCambodian sex slavery activist quits U.S. foundation
By SOPHENG CHEANG Article Reprint A Cambodian woman who has been honored internationally for her work against sexual slavery has resigned from the New York-based foundation she helped found after reports alleged that she had
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