By: Kameron Hillstrom To protect and serve – and apparently violate the law. New York may want to consider adding the latter portion to its police force motto, as every officer in the state is currently in violation of the state’s new gun control statute. New York hastily passed through the NY SAFE Act in [...]
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GUN CONTROL: State Legislation Aims More at Guns, Less at Control Leave a comment
Is the Time Ripe for Federal Legalization of Marijuana? Leave a comment
By: Elaine Ding For the first time in over forty years, the majority of Americans are now in favor of legalizing marijuana (according to a poll conducted by Pew Research Center – released on April 4, 2013). While support for marijuana legalization has slowly and steadily increased over the past twenty some odd years, the [...]
Moderate Gun Control Legislation Pleasing No One 1 comment
By Briana Cartwright The United States Senate will soon vote on new gun control legislation but the gun control bill may not pass because of a divided Congress. In preparation for this event, President Obama, Vice President Biden, and first lady Michelle Obama will try to develop support for the gun package. This package includes [...]
Kentucky’s Efforts at Tax Reform: State Legislature is Unable to Enact Meaningful Change to the Tax Code Leave a comment
By: Jordan Stivers Kentucky, like many states, suffers from an outdated tax code that fails to keep pace with the modern economy. In addition to slow economic growth, the state consistently fails to raise enough revenue to adequately fund vital services such as education and investment in healthcare. The lack of updates to the tax [...]
Shutdown, Sequester, and Sustainability Leave a comment
By: Brian Nistler It is a familiar scenario: Republicans and Democrats cannot seem to agree on a basic operating budget to keep our government running, and while they go back and forth, the small amount of progress we have been able to make is jeopardized. This same scenario caused the United States’ credit rating to [...]
Minutemen, Modernity, and Magazines 1 comment
By Jesse Ouellette Traveling eastbound on interstate eighty-four, only fifteen minutes from the sleepy bedroom community where I grew up, there is an exit sign for Newtown, Connecticut. A once not so well known area, turned infamous from one tragic morning in December of 2012. On that morning, a deeply disturbed young man claimed twenty-seven [...]
