Republican presidential candidates former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, and former House speaker Newt Gingrich gesture during a Republican presidential debate Monday Jan. 23, 2012, at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Fla.
FACT CHECK: Flubs in Florida
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'Free-for-all' decimates fish stocks in the southern Pacific
After years of intensive fishing, jack mackerel stocks in the southern Pacific have declined dramatically. Some experts say the only way to save the fishery is to impose a total ban for five years.
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Fight brewing over historic California plan to close last three youth prisons
Gov. Jerry Brown, second from left, after delivering his State of the State address before a joint session of the Legislature at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif.
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Sin control, gigantes pesqueros diezman el Pacífico Sur
After years of intensive fishing, jack mackerel stocks in the southern Pacific have declined dramatically. Some experts say the only way to save the fishery is to impose a total ban for five years.
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TransCanada, developer of controversial pipeline, boosts lobbying spending
Protestors dressed as referees to throw red penalty flags during a rally against the Keystone XL pipeline on Capitol Hill.
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FACT CHECK: The state of Obama’s facts
President Barack Obama gestures while giving his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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Georgia considers reforms for youth prisons rife with problems
While New York and California consider dramatic juvenile-justice reform, Georgia is debating how to change an already troubled system now being rocked by the recent killing of a youth in lockup.Georgia has 26 youth jails and prisons right now, and the state is considering how to enhance security and create more space — perhaps adding another prison — while cutting some rehabilitation staff to save money. Lawmakers will consider proposals to cut teachers and community-based rehab
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Gingrich's health center was power player in a host of Washington policy debates
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Peru’s vanishing fish
Peru’s anchoveta is the world’s largest fishery. Most of it is reduced to fishmeal, a feed for farmed fish and pigs.
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Federal regulators have failed to act on toxic chemical, report says
A key component of many plastic products, BPA is found in everything from baby bottles to the lining of food cans to the paper used in store receipts.
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Puncturing the hot air balloons on defense spending
The Defense Department’s budget is the focus of a major political debate this year.
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Does the public favor defense budget cuts?
What do average Americans say when they are faced with the budget tradeoffs on national security that policymakers face today? When polls ask in the abstract about defense spending, Americans are often reluctant to cut it. However when Americans are asked to consider the deficit and presented with tradeoffs ... (cont'd)
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Federal report slams record of putting youth in adult prison
A new report released by the National Institute of Corrections slams the U.S. record of sending juveniles to adult prison, and lists multiple reform ideas for federal, state and local leaders to consider. In the 1990s, nearly every state in the country took steps to make it easier to try minors as adults and send them to prison, according to the report, “You’re An Adult Now,” which was released in December. The institute is part of the U.S.
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FACT CHECK: Refereeing the Republican response
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels
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Weekly Watchdog 1/26/12
Free-for-all in southern Pacific decimates fish stocksAsian, European and Latin American fleets have devastated fish stocks in the southern Pacific, once among the world’s richest waters, a new investigation by the Center’s International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has found. Governments with the power to stop the plunder have stalled for years, and no binding rules are in place.
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Raging against the foreclosure machine
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Coast to coast, questions over student interrogations
As police presence and student suspensions have grown in schools, so has the volume of a debate over what rights parents have to be aware their children are being questioned or participate in the disciplinary process.
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Watchdog groups call on Newt Gingrich to disclose all health center clients
Public interest groups on Friday called on Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich to make public a full list of health care companies that paid his Washington think tank for advice as far back as 2003.“Gingrich has been unapologetic about his work so I can’t imagine why it would be a problem to release a full list of his clients,” said Tom Fitton, president of the conservative group Judicial Watch.
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Loophole in Senate bill may create nuclear risks
This Dutch reactor in the town of Petten is one of only a handful worldwide that make isotopes for use in medical procedures. A drive to persuade producers to use low-enriched uranium in such production is still getting off the ground.
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Pro-Gingrich super PAC reports $2.1 million in contributions
Former House Speaker and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich
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