Haspel Survives Grilling From Senate Dems, Recommended For CIA

The Senate Intelligence Committee has voted 10-5 to recommend Gina Haspel to be confirmed as President Trump’s pick for Director of the CIA. The move follows weeks worth of criticism towards Haspel over her former role in the agency’s post-9/11 era enhanced interrogation and detention practices.

New Program To Help Veterans Campaign For Public Office

In 1969, 75 percent of senators and congressmen had served in the military, but by the beginning of the Afghanistan War, that number dropped to less than one in three. To combat the waning number of military veterans running for public office, officials from the Veterans Campaign and University of San Francisco are teaming up to […]

A Look Back At Some Odd Bills In The General Assembly.

While a majority of the General Assembly deals with the big-ticket items like Medicaid expansion, two-year budgets, tax increases or decreases, and bolstering the business sector, there are some pieces of legislation that make it into the capitol that are a bit odd. Looking back at the 2018 General Assembly session, there were a few […]