Texas lawmakers are looking to make state funding procedures more accountable. A new bill would reverse a 2013 bill that slows the flow of money to around 100 programs across the state.
Remember how much of what nonprofits do depends on the protection of the rights of freedom of thought and freedom of speech. PEN’s awards to Charlie Hebdo and to Tom Stoppard should be reminders.
Dylan Byers of Politico reports that, lured by the potential of tax-deductible donations, the conservative National Review is apparently transitioning to become a nonprofit.
The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi has a new and devastating piece about the Obama administration’s poor grades on the issue of federal government transparency and disclosure.
The American Pharmacists Association has voted to oppose any participation in the death penalty. In doing so, they joined the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists.
One of the things I remember most from high school is a class discussion on argumentation—more specifically, the problem of opposing yet-unstated premises in a discussion. It is one of the things that I keep in mind during disagreements.
Many feel that privatizing public services is a contradiction in terms and leads to any number of problems; and, in the context of human services, inattention to matters of geography appears to result in misallocation and/or unequal quality of delivery—unsurprisingly, with the highest levels of inadequate or distressed providers correlating with less well-off communities. Mapping service providers, says the author, can enrich the debate and help us to grapple with these spatial concerns.
The Amherst County attorney, acting for the Commonwealth of Virginia, moves to block the closing of Sweet Briar College and force the removal of the president and board of directors.
More than two hundred thousand prisoners live in solitary confinement in the federal prison system. Another 80,000 are in state prisons across the country. On average, a third of them are mentally ill—“often profoundly so.”
In the tradition of Orwell’s Big Brother, New Jersey and Pearson appear to be monitoring students who might be discussing the pluses and minuses of the PARCC tests they’ve been subjected to.
The Royal Ontario Museum has produced a great cautionary tale about the need for clear policies relative to pledges made during capital campaigns.
A complaint filed against the Central Brevard County library in Florida for its display of Confederate memorabilia has prompted a review of county policies on library displays.