For nearly a century, police and prosecutors have been on notice that relying on eyewitness testimony is risky. But that hasn’t stopped them from using it to prosecute cases – sometimes sending the innocent to prison. The Dallas Morning News spent most of this year investigating Dallas County’s 19 DNA exonerations as well as current [...]
Archive For October, 2008
Voter Help Lines Already Busy
(From the NY Times Political Blog) By Leslie Wayne Election-help phone lines are already starting to ring off the hook. Some of the biggest organizations that are providing hotlines to help voters get to the polls are reporting that early voting is bringing a lot of early calling. And they are bracing for what they [...]
Tweet Your Voting Moment
By Kate Phillips, From: The NY Times Standing in line for a long time at polls on Tuesday? Did you get turned away because you wore a T-shirt emblazoned with your candidate’s name? Are there machine problems, identification issues? There are a number of legal and civic groups already in position to help, with their [...]
2 greenhouse gases on the rise worry scientists
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein, Ap Science Writer WASHINGTON – Carbon dioxide isn’t the only greenhouse gas that worries climate scientists. Airborne levels of two other potent gases — one from ancient plants, the other from flat-panel screen technology — are on the rise, too. And that’s got scientists concerned about accelerated [...]
Who can make real change in Washington?
Adapted from a AARP video, which unfortunately give smaller parties short shrift.
More Than a Two-Person Race
From: FAIR Media Advisory More Than a Two-Person Race Corporate media largely ignore other presidential candidates While the major-party race for the White House has been the subject of broad media attention for more than a year, the corporate media have mostly ignored at least four substantial third-party and independent candidates for the presidency. Green [...]
Over 1,500,000 NYS Voters Purged
From: Bo Lipari’s Blog Have you been purged from New York State’s database? As I wrote about in my last blog, HAVA required substantial changes to the way voter registration lists are managed, requiring that all states maintain a single statewide database, and that voter registration records be purged of incorrect records. But depending on [...]
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