Rifkin Wants Doctors to Have Ability to Force Medicate Patients Without Due Process of Law
James Pavle, executive director of the Treatment Advocacy Center in Arlington, Virginia, writes a pretty strong indictment regarding the issue of treatment for mental illness in The USA Today. He calls it the “criminalization of mental illness.”
Writes Mr. Pavle, “America has lost 90% of its psychiatric hospital beds since 1960, a shrinkage that has corresponded with the growth of the prison population. Instead of hospitalizing people with mental illness, many are jailed or imprisoned. By some estimates, 16% of inmates are suffering symptoms of severe mental illness.”
According to a recent 
The ink was barely dry on the Governor’s signature on SB 48 when a group of conservatives announced that has filed papers to put an initiative on the ballot to repeal the law that amends the education code to include social sciences instruction on the contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, as well as of people with disabilities and members of other cultural groups.
The phrase “canary in the coal mine” has often been used and abused in public discourse, using the metaphor to explain a leading indicator of a problem, just as the canary was the first to feel the impacts of harmful gas in the coal mine to alert the miners, hopefully with enough time to avert disaster.
Traffic intersections have proven to be one of the most dangerous locations for drivers. One of the chief problems are vehicles running red lights, trying to race to get through in time.
When the state pondered raiding Redevelopment, the City of Davis like many cities, moved quickly to encumber as much money on existing projects as necessary. While RDA still looks uncertain, it appears more likely than not at this point that RDA will survive in one form or another.
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Defense Attorney Responds: “It’s clearly excessive force” 
A recent Davis Enterprise article began with this sentence: “Decade-long plans to build a parking garage in the heart of downtown Davis have more traction now than ever before.”
Witch hunts are nothing new to Deputy District Attorney Ryan Couzens. He once had his own victim arrested and charged with attempting to influence a juror to acquit the defendant.
From the start, I have not been a fan of the so-called tiered cuts. These seemingly arbitrary cuts have been used by the city to cut from the budget. What they do is pick and choose positions that the city believes are not tied to core services, and get them to add up to a certain amount of money.
How would you like to decide along with your fellow citizens how to spend $1.3 million?! That’s what residents of Chicago’s 9th Ward have done by enacting Participatory Budgeting beginning in 2009.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the death penalty became almost a third rail in politics, no one would dare criticize it. When they did, they got crucified for it as Michael Dukakis clumsily answered a question as to what he would do if his wife were brutality raped and killed.
It would appear that Davis will continue its Redevelopment Agency, at least if council passes, which it undoubtedly will, an ordinance drafted by Ken Hiatt, Deputy Executive Director of the Redevelopment Agency, and Katherine Hess.
