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Obviously, test scores are through the roof at Boyertown and the school board has nothing better to do than spend $7 million or so on artificial turf. And to top it off they talk about using COVID money on artificial turf because God knows there isn’t anything better to spend it on. What does artificial […]

A temporary program for “dangerously mentally ill” patients has continued for five decades, despite calls from critics to provide better care. Soon, Idaho will be the only state still using prisons to house patients who face no criminal charges.

The state is a stark outlier in jailing so many people for so long, but many officials say they don’t have another option.

I know a lifetime gig is a license for a permanent big-money Mardi Gras, but, really, a private jet to Alaska?

True the Vote, a group that spread discredited election conspiracy theories, “abandoned” The Freedom Hospital in April 2022, according to its lawyers. Yet board member Gregg Phillips continued to seek donations for the project for months afterward.

A ProPublica report shows how the Richardson company's algorithm looks a lot like price fixing.

A report found that Border Patrol staff did not check on the teen, who died from the flu in his detention cell.

From ProPublica: An investigation found repeated breakdowns in oversight as states failed to protect young people in need of specialized care.

We are experiencing brutal winter temperatures of 50 degrees this morning here in San Diego. The dog and I are huddled together in the living room. Please send food, preferably some of that chicken curry pie I had in London that one time. Also dog treats ETA:  growing up here is weird.  I never saw a snowflake until I was in my thirties, and that was in Korea.  With a climate like ours, if you go up into the mountains it snows, but it’s like wet concrete.  Just doesn’t get cold enough.�...