LawNews
Squatting, the practice of occupying a house you don’t own, is a problem in downtrodden Detroit. But when Charlie LeDuff, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter at Detroit’s Fox… Read More
LawNews
RICHMOND – Martha Boneta’s eight-year battle with an environmental group over a conservation easement on her farm in Virginia’s Hunt Country moved closer to resolution… Read More
LawNews
Martha Boneta’s years of struggle with a powerful conservation group could come to the beginning of an end this week. Boneta owns the 64-acre Liberty Farm… Read More
SocietyNews
A Massachusetts town might become the first in the nation to ban all tobacco sales, according to the Boston Globe. Westminster, Mass. is a town… Read More
SocietyNews
In one Texas town, a business owner is in trouble for displaying too much patriotism. Andre “Frenchy” Rheault, who owns a landscaping company based in… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Don’t go blaming willpower for the obesity epidemic–that’d be a “crime” according to the documentary “Fed Up,” by the producer of “An Inconvenient Truth” Laurie… Read More
SocietyNews
Having a baby is supposed to be one of the happiest moments of your life. But for Bobby Lopez, an unusual figure in the marriage… Read More
Commentary
No matter how adventurous your teenage years were, chances are you had nothing on Joshua Wong. Labeled “a threat” an “extremist” and “an infiltrate” by… Read More
EnergyNews
The Seattle City Council has imposed a mandatory composting ordinance, requiring all residents to separate their biodegradable trash from other kinds of refuse. The city… Read More
SocietyNews
Officials at Western New Mexico University say a controversial questionnaire that sparked complains elsewhere in the country because it asked students about their sex lives and drinking habits will… Read More
EducationNews
Administrators at a South Carolina high school confiscated American flags from students’ trucks on 9/11 as part of a rule preventing students from calling “an… Read More
SocietyCommentary
In a refreshing move, The Washington Post came out against legalizing pot in the District of Columbia in an editorial this weekend. The Post supported… Read More
SocietyNews
A school board in Virginia got an earful from one of its students last week over its ban on lip balm. Last winter, Grace Karaffa,… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The primary focus of the federal school meal programs should be meeting students’ needs. But for that to happen, there must be recognition that parents… Read More
SocietyNews
Teens who smoke marijuana daily are over 60 percent less likely to graduate from high school than their peers who never use, according to a… Read More
SocietyNews
Soon, the city of brotherly love could be the largest American city to decriminalize marijuana. On Monday, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter announced a potential agreement… Read More
SocietyNews
Holly Fisher, a mom of three from West Virginia, never thought she would be a gun owner. But when her husband joined the military in… Read More
SocietyNews
St. Louis County residents who wanted their voices to be heard decided to show up in Ferguson, Mo. Their goal: To give some much-needed business to… Read More
SocietyCommentary
There is more bad news out of Colorado regarding the negative impact of marijuana legalization. As I reported a few weeks ago, some professors published… Read More
LawNews
A Dover, Wis., couple has filed a lawsuit in state court in which they allege their property was assessed in 2013 at an “excessive, arbitrary… Read More
SocietyNews
For 14 years, film producer Micheal Flaherty made it his mission to bring “The Giver,” Lois Lowry’s award-winning 1994 novel, to the big screen. Flaherty, president and co-founder… Read More
LawNews
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Florida law enforcement came down hard on a single mother last week for the crime of letting her 7-year-old son play at a neighborhood… Read More
SocietyNews
The recent Netroots Nation gathering, billed as a “giant family reunion for the left,” included a directive from one leader of a progressive state policy… Read More
SocietyNews
After spending several harrowing months in Sudan, Meriam Ibrahim Ishag, the mother of two who was sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her Christian… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Let me begin by saying I love baseball. I grew up playing whiffle ball nearly every summer afternoon in a vacant lot in suburban Chicago,… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Were you aware that your opposition to Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama is due at least in part because of your “racial animus,”… Read More
LawNews
A well-funded, politically influential environmental group based in Fauquier County, Va., stands accused of colluding with government officials and real estate moguls to force a… Read More
News
Californians are one step closer to casting votes in November to decide whether the state will remain as is or be broken into six separate… Read More
SocietyNews
A South Carolina mother was arrested for letting her 9-year-old daughter play in a local park while she worked at a nearby McDonalds. Debra Harrell… Read More
SocietyNews
The American Legislative Exchange Council has tapped Lisa B. Nelson to serve as chief executive officer of the nation’s largest nonpartisan organization of state legislators…. Read More
