Prior to his dropout from the University of Colorado, Aurora theater-shooter James Holmes had been seeing a mental health specialist at the University. However, school specialists, trained mostly to treat academic anxiety, were ill equipped to address Holmes’s condition. New evidence indicates he may have also called his psychiatrist just minutes before he entered the [...]

Few foresaw the direction that the Supreme Court would take the decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as PPACA or Obamacare. Immediately after the decision, public focus was still on the retention of the individual mandate. Though the Court’s change in the Medicaid expansion was unexpected, Health and Human Services [...]

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa joined hands with LA City Council President Eric Garcetti and City Librarian Martín Gómez to launch the first day of Monday service in the city’s 73 libraries today. The Mayor, who said his mother sent him to the library after school while he was growing up, explained, “I know the positive role [...]

Trying to stay cool? Syrians have been using these earthen houses for that exact purpose since 3,700 BC. Made from mud, straw, dirt, and stones, the beehive-like dwellings are lean, green, and super-cool to look at. Beehive houses, built throughout the rural farming communities of Syria’s hottest deserts, are also found in it’s largest urban [...]

                      On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the addition of 70 new electric vehicles to the city’s official transit fleet. The new additions  include 50 Chevy Volts, 10 Navi-star “E-star” electric utility trucks, and 10 Ford Transit Connect electric cargo vans. At [...]

This Friday, Los Angeles City Mayor Villaraigosa released the 2010 Bicycle Plan, the latest major milestone in putting the city’s Measure R funds to work. By designating over 1600 miles of bicycle lanes throughout Los Angeles, the plan is designed to promote biking as a sustainable means of transit. The new bicycle system, composed of [...]