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Local authors and educators Gary Arnold and Alexandra Weiss will be featured in the August Saturday Writers’ Clinic beginning at 9:30 a.m. Aug. 19 at the East Bank Regional Library,

The Drug Enforcement Administration has spent half a century worsening public health. It should be abolished

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) turned 50 this week, marking five decades and over $1 trillion in its unsuccessful attempt to enforce the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) by means of what is widely viewed as a failed War on Drugs. Why Unsuccessful?

Here we go again. Like the proverbial bad penny,...

Local musician and former OffBeat Magazine cover artist, Paul Sanchez, is gearing up to deliver an authentic tribute to Johnny Cash...

Digital is often a one-way street, and the finance sector appears to be taking it. This is as the future of money movement looks set to reach a crescendo this…

Why are America's plutocrats funding efforts to weaken our democracy and replace it with plutocracy and oligarchy? Is it just about money? Or is there something much deeper that most Americans rarely even consider? An extraordinary investigative...

In issuing pardons for those convicted of simple possession, the president took a significant step toward ending years of racist treatment.

From the editorial: Ever since President Richard Nixon signed the Controlled Substances Act in 1970 and launched the war on drugs, Americans have suffered the consequences — especially people of color. Black people are six times more likely to be incarcerated on drug charges than their white counterparts, even though both groups use drugs at roughly the same rate.

The work of balancing the scales after decades of a failed war on drugs is far from over.