'Last night, in between approving city expenditures and other routine agenda items, the Topeka, Kansas City Council debated one rather controversial one: decriminalizing domestic violence'.
'Here’s what happened: Last month, the Shawnee County District Attorney’s office, facing a 10% budget cut, announced that the county would no longer be prosecuting misdemeanors, including domestic violence cases, at the county level. Finding those cases suddenly dumped on the city and lacking resources of their own, the Topeka City Council is now considering repealing the part of the city code that bans domestic battery'.
From : http://feministing.com/2011/10/05/topeka-kansas-considers-decriminalizing-domestic-violence-to-avoid-prosecuting-cases/
'The Spokane Regional Health District proposed cutting some programs for children with special needs and eliminating its water testing lab as it tries to make do with $2.1 million less next year'.
From : http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/oct/08/health-district-weighs-cuts/
'Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney laid out a hawkish foreign policy in a speech in South Carolina on Friday, saying he would boost defense spending.....'
From : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203388804576616841644878336.html
'At the height of the Roman Empire, the Romans had an estimated 37 major military bases scattered around their dominions. At the height of the British Empire, the British had 36 of them planetwide. Depending on just who you listen to and how you count, we have hundreds of bases. According to Pentagon records, in fact, there are 761 active military "sites" abroad'.
From : http://www.alternet.org/world/97913/the_us_has_761_military_bases_across_the_planet,_and_we_simply_never_talk_about_it/
Priorities.
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