Alaska Dispatch: After sitting through way too many hours of Alaska Board of Game deliberations in recent days, I'm hard pressed to say what disturbs me most about the events that transpired in Anchorage's Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center. Which is most awful, I wonder: that the Board is intensi...

Last May, I wrote about the Ohio law that, the legislature intended, would put the screws to payday lenders in that state. The law limited payday loans to four short-term loans a year and capped annual interest rates at 28......

Millions of people were stunned and outraged by the videos that showed Oakland BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) cop Johannes Mehserle draw his gun and kill Oscar Grant. Mehserle quit his job 7 days after the killing to avoid giving any statement about what happened or why he did it. Now Mehserle's lawy...

Muriel Kane Published: Wednesday March 11, 2009 Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell on Tuesday when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota that the military was running an "executive assassination ring" throughout the Bush years which reported directly to former Vice...

Sen. Larcenia Bullard was just given a "Worst Person in the World" award by MSNBC pundit Keith Olbermann for her confusion over the word "husbandry" in a bestiality ban bill.  â€œPeople are taking these animals as their husbands? What’s husbandry?â€� she asked. Some senat...

The Southern Voice reports: Actor Ashton Kutcher took to Twitter this afternoon to tweet his disgust at people who use “gay” and “fag” as insults. In typical Twitter style, where capitalization and punctuation are optional, Kutcher wrote: “can we just get clear, calling...

According to a press release sent out today by PlanetOut, Inc., it looks as though the company continues to face a doubtful future that might include getting the boot from NASDAQ: PlanetOut Inc. (Nasdaq: LGBT), a leading media and entertainment company exclusively focused on the gay and lesbian mark...

While I applaud the intent of the National Alliance on Mental Illness’s effort to “grade” the 50 states in the U.S. on their mental health care, the problem with such reports is that they are out-of-date and virtually useless from the moment they are published. The problem with the...

Times are tough. Library funding is down, library use is up, and people are asking more and more questions demanding more and more time from their public library staff. In response to these increasing demands on library resources, Library Development staff at the Washington State Library have been c...

The last gasps of a nearly defunct organization desperate for attention or a reminder that Iraq is still in play? Today the "Islamic State of Iraq", the front group for al Qaeda in Iraq, claimed in an internet statement that......