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March 10th, 2009
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The Supreme Court has reinterpreted the Voting Rights Act so that special crossover voting districts can be set up to help elect minority candidates only if there's 50% or more minority voters in a district. This is a far narrower interpretation than was prevalent before; it matters because voting districts will be redrawn after the 2010 Census. This Reuters article wth Attorney General Holder was written before the decision; haven't found a response article.
Obama rebukes Bush on signing statements.
Science above politics: Obama lifts the ban on stem cell research.
In the 30s, there were Hoovervilles all over the place outside the cities, tent cities and shanty towns where people who had no money and nowhere else to live created a place for themselves. Now, it's Bushvilles, and this makes a lot more sense of that link from a few days ago where Sacramento criminalized any sort of scavenging from recycling or trash. And, also from Sacramento, a story looking at the most invisible part of the homeless population: children, in and out of school, sleeping in shelters, with no real home.
In the Philippines, questioning the taboo on birth control.
The Purpose-Driven Wife. Betty Friedan, where are you when we need you?
NYTimes: Neoliberalism and higher education. Sounds more libertarian than liberal to me, monetizing everything and discarding stuff because it doesn't "cost enough". Not everything can or should be evaluated in terms of its monetary "value".
US Customs, aka Homeland Security at the border, is getting more in your face as you come here from Canada. Examples: seizing laptops and cellphones, documents and books; Google-searching your name online (you have no privacy); wanting more information on Canadian citizens regardless of privacy concerns.
It's politics. That's the only reason why environmental scientists are opposed to other environmental scientists seeding the ocean with iron to capture greenhouse gases.
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