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Category : Headlines
From today’s Baltimore Sun (reported by Yeganeh June Torbati):
Gun control policies should focus on restricting access to firearms for dangerous individuals or repeat offenders rather than making guns illegal, a prominent gun policy scholar told a group of public health students on Tuesday.
Daniel W. Webster, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, touched on Baltimore police tactics and the Jan. 8 mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz., where six people were killed and 13 wounded, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
Too often, he said, the national debate on gun control divides into groups — those claiming that guns are not responsible for people’s violent actions against those who say there are far too many guns available in America.
"This discussion has gotten us to where we are today, which is nowhere," said Webster, who has served as an informal adviser to Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III. "We get in these silly sorts of discussions about guns are good, guns are bad."
Webster is well known around the Baltimore Police Department. Back in October, The Sun’s police reporter, Justin Fenton, reported on a grant the city got from the federal government that will allow Webster to study the police commissioner’s bad guys with guns strategy:
The 0,000 Smart Policing Grant will be used to support the work of the department’s Violent Crime Impact Section, a plainclothes deployment of officers focused in East, West and Northwest Baltimore, and the gun offender registry, which helps keep tabs on people convicted of gun offenses.It will also fund an evaluation of the department’s effectiveness in those areas
For two years, Webster and a researcher will compare crime statistics and police strategies to provide a template for other cities.
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Category : Ready Steady Lets Go Green
Obama just wrapped up the 2011 State of the Union address, and one of the clear highlights was his call for massive national investment in new technologies — especially clean energy. Referring to renewable energy, Obama said that “this was our generation’s Sputnik moment”; the moment when we realize that we’ve fallen behind and redouble our efforts. But that wasn’t the only notable element of Obama’s speech in terms of climate, energy, and the environment. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Patty Sorenson, 53, retail sales owner, Wheaton “I think they should be able to live wherever they want. It’s just freedom to live wherever you want. You may not want to live in the city, but you want to work in the city.” David Greenleaf, 54, accountant, Bronzeville/Douglas “No. I …
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Category : Charleston Gazette
The pundit class of our country is, of course, in a frenzy about tonight’s State of the Union address, with everyone offering views about what President Obama will say and what he should say. David Roberts over at Grist, for example, wants President Obama to say:
… I plan to vigorously defend the Environmental Protection Agency’s [...]
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Category : Los Angeles Times
Judge finds that Dr. Michael Kamrava committed gross negligence in implanting Nadya Suleman with an excessive number of embryos in January and July 2008. He recommends that Kamrava complete an ethics course and continue to practice under the supervision of another doctor.
The Beverly Hills fertility doctor who assisted Nadya Suleman in conceiving octuplets should be placed on five years’ probation rather than have his license revoked, a judge has recommended to the Medical Board of California.
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