| Feb 5, 2014 | Peace / SecurityIn the ever-escalating competition to be the No. 1 big-time college football program in the nation, Ohio State University bulked up last fall with a monster recruit named Maxx. Actually, it’s not the coaching staff that signed this brute, but the OSU campus...
| Jan 7, 2014 | Peace / SecurityIt’s still a mystery how Santa Claus got it down the chimney, but Bastrop got a Christmas present boys can only dream about: a big honking, steel-clad, Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) truck. But Bastrop isn’t a 6-year-old boy, and this truck is no...
| Oct 16, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyRemember that inspiring 50th birthday party for the March on Washington at the end of the summer? Unfortunately, those moving speeches didn’t slow the emergence of a new Jim Crow system. The Supreme Court kicked off its celebration of the occasion a month early...
| Aug 28, 2013 | Food / FarmingThe Bible tells us that the Garden of Eden was heaven on Earth — until Adam ate that apple. Then all Hell broke loose. Now, Arlington, Texas, has updated this tale. At about 7:30 in the morning of August 2, a SWAT team of armed police agents, code enforcement...
| Jan 23, 2013 | Peace / SecurityLast year, Sheriff Tommy Gage of Montgomery County, Texas, was eager to show off his new surveillance toy. Having obtained a $300,000 Homeland Security grant from the federal government, his office had become the first police agency in the nation to have its very own...
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