opinion

VT - Over-reliance on plea bargains

January 03, 2009 10:42

View the article here 01/03/2009 So now we are to have a new sex offender law creating a new crime, aggravated sexual assault of a minor under 16, with a Jessica's Law-type provision for a mandatory 25-year sentence without parole upon conviction. What's not to like about this? - Well for...

Op-ed pieces from 2008

Peter Black
January 01, 2009 11:11

Continuing my end-of-year wrap ...Over the next few days I'll be linking to some of the "best" posts from 2008 on this blog, but I thought I'd start by linking to the op-ed pieces I have had published in 2008: "Court judgment online through Facebook a sign of the times"...Continuing my end-of-year...

Some Predictions for 2009

Gene Takagi
December 31, 2008 06:07

Here are some of my predictions for 2009: Many nonprofits will disappear. Paul C. Light, Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service, New York University, predicted that more than 100,000 nonprofit groups nationwide (10%) will fail within the next two years,...Here are some of my...

It’s A Question Of History

Brian Cuban
December 30, 2008 00:06

If you were given the opportunity to meet ten historical figures of interest either living or dead and could only ask one or two questions knowing you would get truthful answers, who would you want to meet and what would you ask? If you were given the opportunity to meet ten historical figures of...

Is The Moon An Illusion?

Brian Cuban
December 23, 2008 18:15

Is the "space race" alive and well in the United States? Is the “space race” alive and well in the United States?  George Bush would like  NASA to put men back on the moon by 2020, and then onto Mars between 2035 and 2037. The Russians plan to build a new manned space transport system ...