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An agreement with the University of California system and the American Chemical Society, or ACS, will allow every UC-authored article in the ACS to be published open access.
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A steady decline in federal aid for students, accompanied by a steady rise in education costs, reveals a worrisome pattern — one that must be broken.
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Many people, including myself, have felt disenfranchised by the current two-party system and grown tired of “lesser evilism” repeated every election cycle.
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The fate of more than a quarter of a million American children and their parents hangs in the balance as the status of Temporary Protected Status-designated countries expires this year.
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“I doubt if the voters of California are stupid enough to split it into three states,” said Berkeley City Councilmember Kriss Worthington.
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One of the most common critiques of U.S. politics today is the partisan gridlock that has led many to claim the current U.S. Congress as the least productive in the last 50 years. To many, Congress is all bark and no bite; members make the news not for passing legislation but for saying disparaging or controversial remarks.
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Here is a glimpse of the austere world California is plunging into if Congress fails to get its act together soon: The state could lose as much as $795,000 in funding for assistance to domestic violence victims, about $87.6 million for primary and secondary education will be lost, around 9,600
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Oh, my kingdom for a compromise — something is rotten in the state of American politics. Even as President Barack Obama stood before Congress in his 2013 State of the Union — practically begging the House and Senate for bipartisan reform on Medicare, the tax code, climate change, immigration and
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Just two days before the student loan interest rate was scheduled to double, Congress passed a measure that includes maintaining the current 3.4 percent loan interest rate.
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