What does The City of Stockton and Lindsay Lohan have in common? Anytime they’re in the press, its bad press. For Stockton, that means someone was robbed, or murdered. Good news is in short supply in this city of three hundred thousand. Last Sunday my friends and I toured the city. […]
THE Japanese government has distanced itself from comments by a prominent politician that the so-called comfort women of World War II served a necessary role by keeping troops in check. Outspoken Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto said soldiers living with the daily threat of death needed some way to let off steam which was provided by […]
Silvio Berlusconi: Battered, bruised, aging, under siege, and still kicking. When I tell my fellow university students I’m Italian, I almost always get two questions: “Can you teach me how to cook pasta properly?” and “How come you Italians still vote for Berlusconi?” I’ll try to answer the second question here, though it’s far from […]
Italo-Moroccan fans in Milan during the European Championships in 2012. By Sophia Heydebrand As a child I hated traveling. My parents would sit in the front seat of our rental car (a steel trap to me) arguing and pointing in all directions, leaving me in the back seat to dramatically fear we’d be lost forever. […]
A man pauses at the makeshift memorial on Boylston Street to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing April 17, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston continues to return to normal, as businesses and streets are reopened following two bomb explosions at the finish line of the marathon that killed 3 people and injured over a […]
With the exception of the fans of Sacramento Kings, the city hasn’t asked for input from the taxpayers . Last year with little debate, city leaders were prepared to lease city owned garages to private investors for several decades to help finance a new arena in the Railyards. Those private investors could set prices for […]
Race data obtained under freedom of information paints a disturbing picture of black and aboriginal over representation in Ontario youth and adult jails. Blacks and aboriginal people are over represented in Ontario’s youth and adult jails, with some staggering ratios that mirror those of blacks in American jails. A Star analysis of Ontario jail data, obtained by University of Toronto […]
UCLA’s been battling a growing problem with hate speech on campus. Why won’t local media divulge the dirty details? There is plenty that’s horrible about a racist, sexist act of vandalism at the University of California, Los Angeles. But along with the crime itself, there’s yet another depressing aspect to the story: the way it’s […]
Like Travon Martin he was 17 when he was killed. Like Travon Martin he was unarmed and like Travon Martin, the killer said he was in fear of his life. That’s where the similarities end. Today 17 year old Jordan Davis was laid to rest today at his mother church in Powder Springs, Ga. His […]
22 year old Denise Helms of Turlock, California will not be the last person fired for using poor judgement in the Social Media. The former Cold Stone manager was let go because of her Nov 7th Facebook posting. The question is, should she have been? The seemingly naïve women,(who doesn’t believe she did anything […]
May 21, 2013
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