Jane Susskind is a Judicial Law Clerk at Nevada Supreme Court.
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The political landscape in California has drastically shifted in recent years, with independent voters now the fastest growing group in the state. While there is still a lot of work to be done to ensure their inclusion in the political process, the passage of the nonpartisan top-two primary in 2010
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It's official. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now on Twitter, tweeting from the Twitter handle @HillaryClinton. https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/344132945122054144 Her Twitter debut comes on the same day a Gallup Poll marks her favorability at the lowest point its been since an unsuccessful presidential
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The list of government waste, scandal, and secrecy seems to be mounting, with news this week of a recent governmental order requiring Verizon to provide the National Security Agency with classified information on calls made through the service. What's more, trust in the media is at an all
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Credit: PressTV As part of his effort to encourage the GOP to expand its base, Senator Rand Paul made the case for a Libertarian-style approach to Silicon Valley politics in a California fundraising swing last week. “I think, particularly in the tech world people are conscious of privacy concerns and
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According to recent research mapping sentiment on Twitter, Napa - located in the heart of California's Wine Country region - is home to the happiest tweeters in the nation. California as a whole, however, did not even rank in the top five in a measure of happiness on
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Credit: courantblogs.com "In recent days, it has become clear that our systems to identify and remove hate speech have failed to work as effectively as we would like, particularly around issues of gender-based hate," Facebook wrote in an open letter earlier this week. This proclamation comes just
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Photo credit: npr.org With recent scandals tainting the Obama administration's promise for a more open government, it seems like transparency efforts are hard to come by. Americans trust in government agencies is low, with a majority of citizens concerned with the growing power of the federal government.
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Credit: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com With over 1 billion users logging on across the world, moderating content on Facebook is no small task. What stays and what goes has been the center of a number of recent controversies, the most recent being outrage over the growing number of pages, images,
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Credit: fitsnews.com On a day when much of the media is talking about governmental surveillance and abuse, Senator Rand Paul introduced the Preserving Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act of 2013. If passed, the act would protect civilians against unwarranted govenrment intrusion through the use of drone technology. "The
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Representative Darrell Issa made headlines this week after spearheading the investigations into the Benghazi attack on September 11, 2012, and "slamming" IRS Inspector General J. Russell George. A lesser known project the chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is working on, however, is the
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In a move only made possibly by a recent SEC announcement giving companies the OK to communicate with investors via social media, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer tweeted that Yahoo will be acquiring the micro-blogging site Tumblr. https://twitter.com/marissamayer/status/336454382495354881 Searching for relevancy among increasingly younger Internet users,
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"Fostering Entrepreneurship" is the motto of this year's TiEcon annual conference, which takes place this weekend in the heart of the Silicon Valley. In what's referred to as the World's Largest Conference for Entrepreneurs, TiEcon 2013 connects high powered tech experts with