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While awaiting the coming tide of U.S. Supreme Court criminal procedure pronouncements I would like to delve again this month into a question of public policy. It was recently reported that Chicago public transportation is dangerous - night riders are susceptible to assault, battery, theft, rape and other similar violent crimes. Such is obviously not front page news. In fact, all big city public transportation is dangerous. Not only that, the neighborhoods are dangerous. So what else is new?

This Doctor of Ministry project sought the successful development and implementation of a biblical response to suicide prevention for chaplains in the Arkansas Army National Guard. The process included reviews of multiple investigations, surveys, reports, and the training of chaplains as well as chaplain candidates. The Project Director developed three character studies and a five-layered biblical response training to enhance chaplains’ understanding of human suffering, God’s authority, and their opportunity as military chaplains to better develop their pastoral counseling abilities.

In late 1985, two United States Supreme Court Justices took the unprecedented step of publicly stating that the intent of the Framers of the Constitution was of decreasing importance in interpreting that document. Justice Brennan limned, it is [a]rrogance clothed as humility to pretend . . . we can gauge accurately, the intent of the Framers. Perhaps the celebration surrounding the bicentennial of the Constitution should be tempered with a re-evaluation.Since the adoption of the Constitution in 1787, there has been no Constitutional Convention other than the one which created the document, though there have been several amendments. A convention shall be called by Congress if it is requested via application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the states, pursuant to Article V of the present Constitution. Although approximately thirty states, four short of two-thirds, have presently petitioned Congress for a Convention on a balanced budget amendment, it is truly time for stronger medicine than the continuing piecemeal amendment process.The states should begin petitioning Congress for an unrestricted Convention designed to bring the Constitution in line with the desires of the people on a host of issues to be discussed in this article.

In January Rep. John Kline (R-MN), chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, released two draft discussion bills to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA. The Student Success Act and the Encouraging Innovation and Effective Teachers Act would increase state and local control over education. In the process, however, the proposals would weaken equity provisions in the law designed to ensure historically disadvantaged students get a fair shot at a good education. This brief outlines specific ways the Kline bills would undermine how historically disadvantaged students are treated and how schools with low-income students are funded. The brief concludes with a progressive vision for how ESEA could be reauthorized in ways that do promote equity. (Contains 1 table and 8 endnotes.).

In 2017, the National Park Service proposed an entrance fee increase across 17 park units, including Yellowstone National Park. The fee increase is proposed to help offset substantial deferred maintenance costs currently experienced across park units. This paper assesses the potential effects felt by gateway communities surrounding the parks. We identify, using Yellowstone as a case study, that even though revenue to the park may increase, spending in local communities can be expected to decrease, all else being equal.

In October of 1980 the United States Congress enacted the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act, commonly referred to by its acronym, quot;RICO.quot; RICO was the homo sapiens from what were earlier pre-historic beastly attempts under federal criminal law to quashorganized crime.Prior to RICO's enactment, Congress had found that quot;organized crime in the United States is a highly sophisticated activity that drains billions of dollars from America's economy.quot; RICO was ostensibly created because the power of organized crime was growing and was beginning to infiltrate legitimate as well as illegitimate businesses.Congress' goal in enacting RICO was to seek the eradication of organized crime . . . by establishing new penal prohibitions, and by providing enhanced sanctions and new remedies to deal with the unlawful activities of those engaged in organized crime.

The mighty Aatma has fallen, and Empress Inalda has lost her main supplier and is forced to sponsor new dungeons to fuel her army's expansion. Gabriel Shook intends to rise to the occasion, but he is broke and must buy second-hand minions from a consignment store to defend his new dungeon. All he can afford is a half-skeleton, rat, and cursed zombie. Half a world away, Talia lives in paradise, but a betrayal threatens her way of life and sets a collision of destinies into motion. Can they both survive the machinations of the Empress and the guilds? What will happen when the otai flows?