At a superior court in Washington DC today, environmentalist Ted Glick got a sixty day suspended sentence. Glick was arrested last September for hanging protest banners in a Senate office building, advocating for action on climate change. FSRN’s Jacob Fenston reports.
Some of the first pieces of the new health care reform law went into effect today — among them, new high-risk pools, offering insurance to people with pre-existing conditions. But as states and consumers begin to sort out the details of how, and if, they can access affordable coverage, a legal challenge to the “Affordable Healthcare Act” began in Virginia. FSRN’s Jacob Fenston has more.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit today challenging the constitutionality of the FBI’s no-fly list. From Washington, FSRN’s Jacob Fenston reports.
The US Labor Department has expanded the Family and Medical Leave Act to include same-sex parents – a move gay rights advocates are applauding. FSRN’s Jacob Fenston reports from Washington, DC.
If you’re one of those drivers who always has a quarter in your pocket except when you have to park at a meter, take heart. This spring, Washington, D.C., rolled out a pilot program that allows drivers to use their cell phones instead of having to fish for change. As Jacob Fenston reports, this technology may mean the parking meter’s time is about to expire.
As America remembers its war dead on Memorial Day, we’re hearing from family members and friends of fallen soldiers and Marines. Sergeant Bill Cahir had an unusual resume for an enlisted man. He was a Capitol Hill staffer, then a Washington journalist before joining the Marines at age 34. Reporter Jacob Fenston visited Sergeant Cahir’s widow at her home in Alexandria, Virginia.
Virginia’s Republican governor, Bob McDonnell, apologized yesterday. That’s after backlash over his proclamation of Confederate History Month and what it left out. As Jacob Fenston reports, the governor has reignited a long-simmering debate over how to remember Virginia’s role in the Civil War.
Drivers have gotten used to plotting their route using Google Maps. But commuters trying to find a safe route for two wheels have found themselves out of luck. Cyclists have now finally gotten biking directions from Google. As Jacob Fenston reports, they’re still a work-in-progress.
A third day of protests at UC Berkeley as students, their teachers, and university employees continue to fight a combination of deep budget cuts and steep fee increases. Today’s action centered on Wheeler Hall, a major classroom building that a group of students occupied early this morning. Jacob Fenston has been covering the Wheeler Hall protest for KQED, and files this report.
We were coated in a slick of sweat, diesel exhaust and sunscreen when we coasted up to a man wearing just-shined shoes and drinking rum from a plastic cup. He squinted at our crinkled map, nodded, told us we wanted to go south to the beach at San Luis and walked off as we tried to explain that we were headed north.