Justice System flawed in Halbech case
Life is so often unfair, but perhaps it is most unfair when people who commit horrible crimes against the innocent are given a second chance. Both Brendan Dassey, 20, and his uncle Steven Avery, 47, have filed for appeals after being sentenced to life terms in prison for raping and killing 25-year-old photographer and UW-Green Bay alumna Teresa Halbach.…
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Don't Count Out The Census
The year 2010 is here, and if that doesn't sound high-tech and futuristic, then maybe the process of writing your name and address on a sheet of paper will take us back to reality. More specifically, the census has started up again.
The Census Bureau begins shipping out its forms in March.…
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A counterculture counter-arugement: Hippy-Hooray
From President Nixon to Eric Cartman, everyone has seen it fit to dump on hippies and their ilk. It has been en vogue since the late 1970s when most hippies turned into yuppies and saw that money was the route to suburban condos and designer clothing.
Sure, some hippies stuck to their ideals, and they've multiplied into the marginalized counterculture they thought they wanted to be.…
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Politics as usual: Still in corporate back pockets
"Freedom of speech has been destroyed." This is the response from MSNBC TV host Keith Olbermann about the Citizen United v. Federal Election Commission Supreme Court decision on Jan. 21 which relaxed restrictions on campaign elections.
This is one of the many reactions people have toward this result, but is it justified?
The issue hinged on whether corporations' ability to pour money into election campaigns could be strictly regulated, or whether corporations have free-speech rights to spend their cash to influence elections just as individual donors do.…
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