An entrepreneurship major and graduate of Belmont University, Wes believes that small business, innovation, and creative thinking are required to solve problems and improve our world.
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As the debate over legalizing cannabis via Prop 19 rages on, what follows are a few relevant figures: 420 - A globally-recognized euphemism for marijuana ...which originated in California (source). 1937 - The year cannabis was first prohibited in the United States (source). For more than a century of U.
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Under the administration of President George W. Bush, many Americans were concerned that Washington was becoming more and more secretive and inaccessible to the common citizens of our republic. With secret meetings, secret prisons, back room deals, warrantless wiretapping, and the passage of large, mostly unread bills like The Patriot
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Observed on the first Monday of each September, Labor Day is a U.S. Federal holiday which recognizes trade and labor organizations and marks the unofficial end of Summer. This Labor Day, over 15 million American workers were without jobs and over two million of the jobless were Californians. That&
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Earlier this year, CAIVN alerted you to the crisis of prison rape. Though it receives little attention from mainstream news sources, the rape of prison detainees by other inmates and even corrections officials has reached crisis proportions in a country with the highest incarceration rate in the world. Indeed, Human
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It's a bad year to be a Democrat. After spending most of an August recess campaigning hard in their home districts, touting their local accomplishments, reminding their voters how bad things were under George W. Bush, and carefully keeping their distance from polarizing party leaders like Nancy Pelosi
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The California State Assembly postponed a final vote Friday, on the approved Senate version of AB 1844, a bill that would create mandatory life sentences for violent sex crimes against children, stricter parole guidelines for sex offenders, and lifelong tracking of certain kinds of sex offenders. Lawmakers are calling the
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The Golden State's July 2010 unemployment numbers came out in a report by California's Employment Development Department Friday, and they don't look good. With over two million unemployed, California's unemployment rate is 12.3%, which is just half a percent more than
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On Friday afternoon, the former eBay CEO and Republican candidate for governor said that she would defend Proposition 8 if elected governor. The 2008 ballot initiative amended California's constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage in the state, declaring that "only marriage between a man and a woman is
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The argument over gay marriage, like many arguments in America, has been falsely presented as a single, binary issue: one is either for or against legalizing gay marriage. On one side of the dichotomy are the "social conservatives" who believe that marriage can only exist between a man
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U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters, a California Democrat, is still battling charges of ethics violations and financial self-dealing. She is alleged to have used her power as a Congresswoman to personally benefit by orchestrating a meeting between U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and a bank in which she and
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Last month, three top Democrats in California- Senators Boxer and Feinstein, and gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown- came out in opposition to Proposition 19, which would legalize the cultivation, possession, and use of cannabis for adult recreational purposes if it passes. In the meantime, more opposition has continued to mount in
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If you live in California, Oregon, Arizona, or Texas, and have ground beef in your freezer, you might want to give it a look to make sure that it's safe to eat. A Modesto-based beef company has recalled one million pounds of its ground beef product after seven