The cost of Palin’s fees and accommodations is being handled by the CSU Stanislaus Foundation, Cal State’s 501(c)(3) university foundation, which says that its activities are “legally exempt from the California Public Records Act.”

The current Great Recession is apparently on the road to recovery, if consumer spending upticks are any indication, but look hard enough, and you’ll see modern day encampments of the homeless and dispossessed in our own communities.

Construction Junction is a Pittsburgh nonprofit that promotes conservation by salvaging salable items from old properties and in the process keeps lumber, tiles, flooring, plumbing and other building materials out of landfills.

One Wayne Hoffman has created the Idaho Freedom Foundation, active with Boise state legislators advocating in favor of limited government on topics such as (opposing) health care reform.

the China Foundation, which is based in Westfield, Indiana, is run by two Canadians in British Columbia.

A story that may cause aspiring authors everywhere to dust off their half-written manuscripts.

New Jersey’s second city has refused to place a tax on otherwise tax-exempt colleges.

If a budget approved this week by the Georgia House holds, the Georgia Council of the Arts, already facing a cut from $2.32 million to $890,735 in state funds, would be eliminated.

The UK’s Green Party just issued its party platform, the manifesto Fair is Worth Fighting For.