Let’s make Illinois great again,” Cullerton said

reduce the effectiveness of their disclosure regimes. Arizona and Michigan both passed laws which reduce the number of entities that are required to file a campaign finance disclosure: in Arizona, HB 5612 raised the minimum amount at which a committee must file from $500 to $1000, while in Michigan HB 4596/4597 excuses incumbent judges from needing to file at all

he threshold for mandatory reporting dropped from $250,000 to $1,000, representing a substantial change that should add all state races to the disclosure list.

California, Maryland and South Dakota taking positive strides. However, some states, like Arizona and Wisconsin, took steps backward in terms of allowing more money and less disclosure into their local election

the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, which, of course, faced an embarrassing PR backlash with the #OscarsSoWhite campaign this year.

Senate Republicans took their first leap towards repealing Obamacare by approving a budget procedure that would allow them to avoid a Democratic filibuster. The 13 Democrats who subsequently voted against making drugs cheaper for people deeply undercut the ability of that party to speak with credibility on behalf of the working class

When the Federal Government announced in September it was eliminating 63 positions from national cultural organisations, both Volker and Hyland were “let go”

the agency can garnish wages, seize income tax refunds and suspend professional licenses — all without getting a court judgment

Now let’s make into a script that runs regularly to keep inviting new sign ups. Sorry it’s PHP, I know. Life happens. First specify the config vars (don’t worry I faked all the API keys and tokens in this post, you can stop tweeting me now haha!) //

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Roof’s standby attorney, said he helped draft — was typed, and it asked the judge to limit the number of victim-impact witnesses that can be called and the way they can be questioned.

he wondered why his father — who would bring his concealed-carry gun to church — hadn’t stopped the shooting. Then he got his father’s car back and saw the gun on the front seat.

a judge unsealed a filing in which Roof alleged it was “not fair” for prosecutors to present such extensive testimony about the effect of his church shooting on victims’ family members. He argued — because he was not presenting any evidence — that it would virtually ensure a death sentence.

You got to be OK with earning a living

Ryan's plan wouldn't allow people to stop or start coverage whenever they wanted. Instead, insurance companies would be required to sell policies only to people who have maintained continuous coverage—and Ryan's plan would provide refundable tax credits to help pay for it

This is probably why author/date systems such as APA and Harvard and more author-prominent citations are used in these areas, compared to Vancouver or footnotes and information-prominent citations are used in hard/physical sciences.”

Scientists, on the whole, seemed to think passive voice was preferable, while the humanities preferred present tense

Catherine Engelbrecht, the founder of True the Vote, said a study of data was forthcoming. "We do have evidence that non-citizens are being registered and are voting," she added, but she wouldn't elaborate.

Gregg Phillips, a former Texas Health and Human Services Commission deputy commissioner, tweeted that he had "verified more than three million votes cast by non-citizens." He wrote that he was joining with True the Vote, a conservative group, "to initiate legal action."

“There’s a big differences between shooting someone assassination-style while they’re enforcing the law and being shot while breaking the law and not complying with a lawful arrest,” he said.

The court is considering whether corporations can invoke the “personal privacy” exemption to the federal Freedom of Information Act.

clude OCLC numbe

adopting an argument put forward by the Clinton Administration, said the power to add qualifications for membership in Congress could not be seen as a power "reserved" to the states by the 10th Amendment because it was never part of the states' original powers.

A 2005 bill that would have reinstituted a ban on flag burning was co-sponsored by Hillary Clinton, then a senator from New York. That legislation was unsuccessful.

except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

prohibits the federal government from taking discriminatory action against a person on the basis that such person believes or acts in accordance with a religious belief or moral conviction that: (1) marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman, or (2) sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage.”

this time, with a much better chance of passing. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Utah Sen. Mike Lee told Buzzfeed News they’d put the First Amendment Defense Act back on the table though it was rejected by the House last year.

Toya Frazier’s death by neglecting their duty to give “adequate medical attention.”

According to video surveillance, Frazier placed medicine in her mouth around 3:23 p.m. and appeared to have a small seizure at 3:50 p.m. and was last seen moving at that tim

Purchasing a coach class airfare higher than the most economical available to accommodate a complimentary upgrade is not allowed.

the College of Veterinary Medicine,

The Fed received 593 petitions in support of the banks’ request to forgo a public hearing on the merger, which could have slowed down the process. But all of the petitions came from Yahoo email accounts, even though Yahoo’s share of the email market at the time was 3 percent, according to a letter to regulators from the California Reinvestment Coalition, an advocacy group that opposed the merger.

In non-white neighborhoods, OneWest was far more likely to foreclose on homes than make loans available, according to the charges, which claim that in 2014 and 2015, the corporation offered only two loans to black borrowers.

he purchased distressed mortgages during the financial crisis and evicted thousands of homeowners.

[that] will target conservative media.”

comment periods, so the process would take a few months

Republicans could decide to forbear from the parts of Title II that were used to impose net neutrality rules, eliminating them without reversing the Title II reclassification

forbearance is a way for the FCC to enforce some parts of a statute but not others.

In the defense's opening statement, attorney David Bruck said ‘there is not a great deal to dispute’ and both he and [the lead prosecutor] expected the jury would find Roof guilty,” according to the Associated Press. “The defense has said repeatedly in federal and state court that Roof would be willing to plead guilty if capital punishment was taken off the table.”

“The company said Wednesday that it now believes the attacker in that breach, which it says was sponsored by a government, found a way to forge credentials to log in to some users accounts without a password.”

Republicans' thus far blasé attitudes toward potential Trump corruption would indicate that it won'

The stakeholders include, well, every person, both corporeal and corporate. The benefits for the latter in “A Better Way” are fairly clear, like a large reduction in the corporate tax rate and a switch to a territorial system in which only domestic income is taxed.

The group’s “constant battles,” he continued, “to keep monuments, flags and other symbols of Confederate heritage intact are usually hard fought, against long odds and without any political allies.”

2 million

claim, like Clinton did, that “implicit bias is a problem for everyone”

Pell Grant awards more flexible

but the Republican victory in the most recent election and his status as a Trump ally give his proposal a better chance of passage

Vergara also bullied Loeb

the Times also rejects housing ads that contain photographs of too many white people.

Facebook declined to answer questions about why our housing-categories ad excluding minority groups was approved 15 minutes after we placed the order.

acebook responded that it plans to move “Ethnic Affinity” to another section.

Satterfield added that the “Ethnic Affinity” is not the same as race — which Facebook does not ask its members about

Satterfield said it’s important for advertisers to have the ability to both include and exclude groups as they test how their marketing performs

“We take a strong stand against advertisers misusing our platform: Our policies prohibit using our targeting options to discriminate, and they require compliance with the law,”

Facebook says its policies prohibit advertisers from using the targeting options for discrimination, harassment, disparagement or predatory advertising practices

The ubiquitous social network not only allows advertisers to target users by their interests or background, it also gives advertisers the ability to exclude specific groups it calls “Ethnic Affinities.”

Zimdars has since taken the list down in response to a backlash that included not just legitimate criticism but nasty threats and abuse.

presented actual fake news sites such as Abc.com.co alongside openly satirical sites such as the Onion and, most damagingly, conservative blogs such as Breitbart and even Red State,

the tweet was misleading, but it was based in reality

Democrats also secured funding to assist the Flint, Mich., community with repairing its drinking water systems. Some $170 million is directed toward infrastructure improvements and preventive care against lead poisoning for mothers and children.

An additional $4.1 billion is directed to disaster relief, including recovery efforts from Hurricane Matthew.

is expected to be confirmed, barring something unforeseen coming to light during the confirmation process.

Since the spending bill is a must-pass measure, it also includes some unrelated provisions and additional funding measures. For instance, Senate Republicans included language that will help expedite the confirmation process for Trump's defense secretary nominee, retired Gen. James Mattis.

After a pause, Trump responded: "No, I don't to bring it back, George. At all. I don't like doing it at all. It's a temporary measure until our representatives, many of whom are grossly incompetent, until our representatives can figure out what's going on."

"This is a president who is highly respected by all," Trump said of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. "He did the same thing -- if you look at what he was doing, it was far worse."

"No-one would use a drug that hasn't been tested on animals to check it doesn't have long-term effects, but we put cosmetics on our skin that have never undergone testing."

More than anything, Peter Thiel, the billionaire technology investor and Donald Trump supporter, wants to find a way to escape death.

Immigrants in detention are far less likely to obtain a lawyer — 66 percent of non-detained immigrants get legal representation, compared to 14 percent of detainees.

the Foundation’s work was sound, but noted the income tax rate in 2012 was higher than it is now. The rate then for individuals was 5 percent but dropped in January 2015 to 3.75 percent.

a January release of rankings by the Tax Foundation. Indeed, the nonpartisan foundation did issue rankings of the 50 states’ tax burdens that showed Illinois at No. 5 for its overall burden.

Republican legislative leaders repeatedly talk about the need for a property tax freeze. They suggest the freeze, which Rauner has made a prerequisite for any budget negotiation, is particularly necessary, as the state will need to raise other taxes to cover its growing bill backlog when a budget is signed into law.

Rauner has called for daily meetings with Madigan and the state’s three other legislative leaders as the state’s stopgap spending authority expires at year’s end

The use of respite volunteers is not a new concept; in Illinois and across the nation, the use of trained, respite volunteers has been a successful tool to engage the community and allow families time to take care of themselves so that they can continue to care for their loved ones.

But with the advent of Big Data and advances in machine learning and statistics, we can process the raw data and get representative estimates not only for Americans overall, but for more fine-grained demographic categories

the first Indian-American woman

is considering launching his own media company, according to multiple sources who spoke on background because they were not authorized to speak for the president.

he way any reasonable person might have done in the same situation, the defense argued, and he would deserve acquittal regardless of whether or not he had been carrying a police badge at the time.

as the defense team argued that Slager acted in self-defense, and did not technically ask the jury to give his status as a law enforcement agent any special consideration in evaluating the legality of his actions.

the South Carolina Supreme Court—one that is based on an utterly incoherent interpretation of a so-called common law standard that says police can use any amount of force, including deadly force, to “seize” a fleeing felon if necessary

“I cannot in good conscience consider a guilty verdict. I respect the position of my fellow jurors, some of which oppose my position. I expect those who hold opposing views not to change their minds.”

how bad will the lives of racial people get while racism hides behind euphemisms?

animus

(think intersectionality) of “racism” and “sexism” you get an all-time high of .03% of articles. That’s in 2016.

maybe the New York Times just isn’t into identity politics. In New York City. It might be like “Friends”.

“sexist.”

after he was not promoted to full professor in 2006

At this point, the university has not found evidence that Dr. Adams has improperly released any private or confidential information related to the student, or violated the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). There is no evidence of unlawful discrimination by Dr. Adams toward this student in UNCW’s working, living, or learning environment, per the university’s harassment prevention policy. Finally, Dr. Adams’s conduct and written material do not contain any evidence of a true threat toward this or any other student.”

new meta-analysis puts that figure at 99.9 percent.

but that she also won the electoral college.

Lou Calogiovanni of Occupy Democrats

the nation's leading voters’ rights and election integrity organization

but our intent is to publish a comprehensive study on the significant impact of illegal voting in all of its many forms and begin a national discussion on how voters, states, and the Trump Administration can best address this growing problem

If Democrats worry the votes were miscounted, and the president-elect believes that millions of people voted fraudulently, then it’s clear we need a recount to restore faith in the outcome of the election.

coming off as a weak and pandering missive begging for scraps and, in truth, coming from a place of fear.

“Community’s” ideas of “appropriate access” can be stifling and repressive too,  as the geeks and queers and weirdos who grew up to be hackers and librarians know well too.   Just because “freeing” information can do and has done  real harm to the vulnerable, it doesn’t mean the more familiar story of censorship as a form of political control by the powerful isn’t also often true.

recently gave store managers earning less than the new threshold a raise totaling several thousand dollars so they could continue to work more than 40 hours a week without receiving overtime pay. This, apparently, is what passes for luck in the United States these days.

challenge to the law in federal court, so it’s quite possible the rules will be stayed prior to implementation.

this past weekend that the congressional Republican leadership is considering ending the current session in early December precisely to ensure it can do away with the overtime regulations under Trump.

CRFB panel

get young people excited about entitlement reform.

ho just eight years ago were linking arms with Republicans against the Obama stimulus plan (a little bit less than $1 trillion),

Bert Wells, the president and CEO of Sugar Bert Boxing Promotions, said that his organization hopes Zafar will return and be allowed to fight. “Boxing is diverse,” he said. “It’s open to athletes from all countries and cultures. We’d welcome her back.”

“We have 30,000 amateur boxers in the United States,” Martino said. “So if you make allowances for one religious group, what if another comes in and says we have a different type of uniform we have to wear? You have to draw a line someplace.”

Such apparel has been deemed a violation of uniform regulations set by the International Boxing Association for reasons USA Boxing executive director Michael Martino called “clearly a safety issue.”

ComEd is significantly reducing the $1 billion it had offered in customer education and low-income assistance in the bill.

ComEd wanted to begin charging households and small businesses based on how much power they consume at peak demand times of the day rather than how much they consumer overall during the course of a month. Rauner's administration said that was a nonstarter.

Community schools are open all day, every day to everyone. Community schools bring together academics, health and social services, youth and community development, as well as a wide variety of other services–all under one roof.

under-performing public schools could then be converted to charter schools as part of “education reform.”

students would have attended school in two shifts, with some waiting at bus stops at 4:30 a.m.

But if Trump is allowed to stack the Cabinet with yes men, cronies, and sycophants, then the danger becomes severe.

technocrat.

autocratic

Independent media is less vulnerable to this tactic but more vulnerable to financial damage via harassing lawsuits

Think Big And Kick Ass,

kleptocracy

saying that as a Jew and the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, he has never found Trump to be anti-Semitic. Kushner is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, who converted to Judaism.

he issued a statement condemning the recent anti-Semitic comments of Trump fan and former Klan leader David Duke who said that the “real problem” in America is “Jewish supremacists” who oppose Trump. Trump disavowed Duke, saying that, “anti-Semitism has no place our society, which needs to be united, not divided.” But that only throws Trump’s refusal to vocally and passionately denounce his anti-Semitic fans on CNN Wednesday night into starker relief.

"America's first black president cannot and will not be succeeded by a hatemonger who refuses to condemn the KKK."

And I just don't know anything about him."

If you would send me a list of the groups, I will do research on them and certainly I would disavow if I thought there was something wrong. You may have groups in there that are totally fine -- it would be very unfair. So give me a list of the groups and I'll let you know."

rump apparently did know Duke in 2000 -- citing him, as well as Pat Buchanan and Lenora Fulani -- in a statement that year explaining why he had decided to end his brief flirtation with a Reform Party presidential campaign. "The Reform Party now includes a Klansman, Mr. Duke, a neo-Nazi, Mr. Buchanan, and a communist, Ms. Fulani. This is not company I wish to keep," Trump said in a statement reported then by The New York Times.

I was sitting in a house in Florida, with a bad earpiece," the brash billionaire told NBC's "Today" show. "I could hardly hear what he's saying. I hear various groups. I don't mind disavowing anyone. I disavowed Duke the day before at a major conference."

"I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists," he said. "So I don't know. I don't know -- did he endorse me, or what's going on? Because I know nothing about David Duke; I know nothing about white supremacists."

which would be a relief if it weren’t so terrifying that he felt he needed to clarify his position.

Trump's lawyers argued that Curiel should bar from the trial accusations about Trump's personal conduct including alleged sexual misconduct, his taxes and corporate bankruptcies, along with speeches and tweets. They argued the information is irrelevant to the jury and prejudicial to the case.

“As a Jewish person, I’m not as afraid of Trump because his own daughter is Orthodox,” one woman said

“There are things unique to the African-American experience that I cannot relate to,” he said. “I had to listen to them.”

But, he said, “Obama made me a better man.” He regrets calling the President a racist and counts himself a Black Lives Matter supporter.

“One of them said, ‘Mr. Curtis, I ain’t messing with voting,’” he said. “They’ll fuck with me like they got you fucked up.’”

voter-registration efforts in the black neighborhoods that once rallied support for Wooten have nearly disappeared without the leadership of Pearson and Hicks.

who faces four counts of both improper voting assistance and false swearing

voter fraud happened in such a tight-knit community opened our eyes a bit. Our party, as a whole, made sure to step up our game,” she said

where the local GOP is training volunteers to work at the polls on Election Day because “we are going to be proactive instead reactive,” said Cathy Latham, a top official with the county GOP.

grown popular among Republican-controlled state legislatures that consider them a prudent measure to reduce voter fraud

cracking down on voter fraud “is just common sense. It’s the law.”

That has Pearson and her supporters suggesting something more insidious may be fueling her criminal charges. They note prosecutors waited more than three years to file the charges, doing so eight months before the expiration of the statute of limitations, in the midst of a pivotal election year.

But the secretary of state had investigated dozens of instances in which Pearson had driven people to the polls or otherwise urged them to vote — instances in which the county elections board chairman alleged her aid crossed the line into illegal voter assistance

charged with improperly helping him to vote.

where activists have challenged thousands of voters. The challengers include volunteers with the Voter Integrity Project, which says it wants to guard against voter fraud.

he court denied it, saying that changing the early voting plans “would create logistical difficulties.

Just 7,916 people voted in the first week of early voting in Guilford this year, compared to 60,732 in 2012, according to state elections board records

telling Reuters that Republican opposition to Sunday voting was not discriminatory but was rather based on the belief that people should not be required to work on Sundays.

"Many of our folks are angry and opposed to Sunday voting," he wrote. “Six days of voting in one week is enough. Period.”

keeping polls open during evenings and weekends, or "off-hour" times, drains county resources.

Counties that Obama, a Democrat, won in 2012 increased their Sunday hours this year by 16 percent, while counties that voted for his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, decreased them by nearly a quarter, the records show.

said North Carolina Republican Party executive director Dallas Woodhouse, denying his party was trying to suppress the Democratic vote

Prussing said, referring to the St. Louis suburb where riots broke out after a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teen in August 2014. "It is a mistake to lump all cities together and think we are identical."

EDUID

enough vials to allow the drug to be tested every month until its expiration date.

the lack of public oversight opens the door to price gouging by allowing an unknown vendor to negotiate with a government in desperate need of a controversial product.

a Democrat, proposed the secrecy bill this year as an alternative to a Republican proposal to use the electric chair as a fallback option if the state should ever be unable to carry out an execution due to a lack of drugs

States that have no mandated qualifications for parole board members. Only 10 require a college degree, and 14 require experience in criminal justice or a related field.

U.S. households that lack basic plumbing like hot and cold running water, a bathtub or shower, or a working flush toilet

but only until January, when a new law that eliminates the statute takes effect. The change was inspired in part by the dozens of women who tried to file charges against actor Bill Cosby but couldn't because of how much time had passed since the alleged crime.

A new state law lets the execution-drug companies conceal their identity.

In four of those six states, the insurance industry isn't actually legally allowed to donate to campaigns

a former Navy SEAL who has never held political office.

Portion of U.S. students who graduated high school last year, which is a record high. Rates have improved among all demographic groups in recent years, but English-language learners and black students have seen the largest increases.

Congress then passed legislation that limited judicial discretion and authorized the collection of sentencing data on individual judges

But after a challenge to the constitutionality of requiring sentencing judges to consider facts that were not weighed by a jury, the Supreme Court untethered judges from the guidelines with its decision in the case of United States v. Booker in 2005. The sentencing guidelines are now advisory, not mandatory

because of the judiciary’s concern that such data could be used to single out judges, who were freed from restrictive sentencing guidelines in 2005

Oklahoma Correctional Industries; workers scan the original photos and prepare metadata

I likewise know of no research university that does NOT require a PhD for faculty positions within academic departments.

pugnacious creature

The CPL collects all professors who have taught at Leipzig University from its foundation in 1409 to the presence.

Others warn that proposed development and higher property values may force poor people out, and they say that when the city was the neighborhood’s leading landlord it should have increased ownership opportunities for Harlem residents .

“There’s a lot of new housing to allow people to come into the area without displacing people there,”

“This place was vacated,” said Howard Dodson, director of Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. “Gentrification is about displacement.”

Because so much of the community was devastated by demolition for urban renewal, arson and abandonment beginning in the 1960s, many newcomers have not so much dislodged existing residents as succeeded them

Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. founded the institute in 1990 as a 501(c)3 non-profit research organization, and is the president of the institute

Many are concerned that a highly disproportionate number of public school special-education students are boys and that boys are 2.5 times as likely as girls in public schools to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Adults who were home educated are more politically tolerant than the public schooled in the limited research done so far

The home-educated are doing well, typically above average, on measures of social, emotional, and psychological developmen

Whether homeschool parents were ever certified teachers is not related to their children’s academic achievement.

A 2015 study found Black homeschool students to be scoring 23 to 42 percentile points above Black public school students (Ray, 2015).

· provide a safer environment for children and youth, because of physical violence, drugs and alcohol, psychological abuse, racism, and improper and unhealthy sexuality associated with institutional schools

$11,732 per pupil in public schools, plus capital expenditures

homeschool families spend an average of $600 per student for their education.

The finances associated with their homeschooling likely represent over $27 billion that American taxpayers do not have to spend, annually, since these children are not in public schools

fter the community backlash from the 2013 closings of nearly 50 schools.

free markets, personal responsibility and a limited role for government in the lives of the governed

principled third-party candidates can make big contributions even when they lose. In 1992 businessman H. Ross Perot won 19 percent of the popular vote on a thin but sensible platform, much of it constructed around reducing federal deficits. That strong showing by Perot the relative centrist influenced how President Bill Clinton would govern.

tames a national debt that's rapidly approaching $20 trillion-with-a-T

rather than ever-higher taxation

Johnson and Weld are even-keeled — provided they aren't discussing the injustice of trapping young black children in this nation's worst-performing schools.

"Most people are Libertarian," Johnson told the Tribune Editorial Board when he and Weld met with us in July. "It's just that they don't know it."

Clinton's behavior affirms the perception that she's a corner-cutter whose ambitions drive her decisions.

Even her command and control of a routine medical issue devolved into a secretive, misleading mission to hide information from Americans.

during an era of institutionalized

a contribution form allowing new content providers to catalog their materials for iLumina (although materials are reviewed before being finally admitted to the library).

Many have argued that minimalist metadata (such as DC Core), is not only easier to create than IMS/IEEE descriptions, but also more cost-effective. One question the iLumina project is addressing is whether this is true.

science, mathematics, technology and engineering (SMETE)

He said Holt was wrong to attempt to fact-check Trump on the constitutionality of stop-and-frisk and his claimed opposition to the Iraq War.

the playground is the latest in a wave of inclusive playgrounds being constructed across the Chicago area in recent years.

the Journal of Forensic Anthropology to $2,719 for Gynecology & Obstetrics.  

Jeffrey Beall, an academic librarian at the University of Colorado-Denver, has identified more than a thousand publishers he considers predatory, on his blog Scholarly Open Access.

Friedman's great-grandfather was the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, and it was he who banned maths, science and English from Haredi schools.

Haredi men are expected to spend most of their time studying the Torah and Talmud, Judaism's sacred texts, leaving their wives to go out and work. About half of Israel's Haredi men live this way.

DHS has offered to help states increase security of their systems, but states have rebuffed federal help and largely believe their systems are secure. DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson held a conference call recently to discuss whether DHS should declare electoral systems as critical infrastructure, which triggers more involvement from the federal government. States have resisted those moves.

has a $230 million hold on his checking account