San Joaquin County’s Measure and Mix — a Mental Health Recipe
San Joaquin County’s Measure and Mix — A Mental Health Recipe – Treating the mentally ill can be a challenge—especially when funding for those county programs is precarious at best. But in San Joaquin County, they are usi…
Young, Indigenous and Imprisoned, Australia's National Disgrace
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Naylor says that despite the differing sentence lengths typical in justice systems across the globe – from decades in the United States, to months in Scandinavian countries – there is no evidence that long prison terms reduce the crime rate. “Countries …
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Washington representative pushes House leaders to act
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 "But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United State" In other words the salaries of all the Tea Party members of Congress shouldn't be paid. …
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State grant funds autism treatment
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The money will fund a treatment called Applied Behavior Analysis for hundreds of children over the next two years. ABA is a systematic behavior modification process that has shown significant promise for autistic children. "This grant is going to …
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Take the World War II Memorial—Please!
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(Why cover the sick kids getting locked out of their government-funded treatment, after all, when beckoned by the siren call of a Republican congressman's photo op?) Over the weekend, quasi-celebrities Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck returned to the …
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