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  • Officials explore options to expand psychiatric hospital to southern NM

    November 28, 2017 |

    NMPolitics.net |

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    Response Location: United States, Las Vegas, New Mexico

    The only psychiatric hospital in New Mexico is in the north, which means frequent trips must be made from the south to bring new patients which is expensive and makes it difficult for southern families to visit. There is a new push to build a psychiatric hospital in the south to decrease the transportation of patients and include families in care, but there are space and financial issues with this new idea.

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  • How Do You Clear a Pot Conviction From Your Record?

    November 27, 2017 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    In light of recently passed laws to legalize the use of recreational marijuana, California legal clinics have set out to inform those with pot-related convictions that their convictions may be able to be reduced or expunged entirely thanks to a provision of Proposition 64. So far, over 4,000 petitions have been filed throughout the state to both reduce sentences of pot-related convictions and either eliminate or reclassify prior convictions as misdemeanors.

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  • Breast cancer once killed far more black women than white women in Chicago. Here's how that changed.

    November 27, 2017 |

    Chicago Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    In Chicago, the disparity in mortality rates between white and black women who contracted breast cancer was once disturbingly high, one of the worst in the nation . But ten years of fostering partnerships between the city and groups like the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force has helped make Chicago a leader in creating more equal access to services like mammograms, support groups, and assistance with open enrollment for health care.

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  • Mental health court could lower recidivism, cut costs

    November 27, 2017 |

    NMPolitics.net |

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    Response Location: United States, Las Cruces, New Mexico

    For offenders with a co-occurring mental health disorder, the regular prison system is not viewed as an optimal environment. A mental health court would help lower recidivism and increase the offender's quality of life by treating their mental health issues in order to focus on the underlying issue contributing to the criminal acts.

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  • Take the Power Back

    November 22, 2017 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: Germany, Cologne

    In the face of climate change as a result of increased CO2 emissions, millions of concerned citizens have grown frustrated at the lack of change from more traditional forms of civil engagement such as petitions, protests, and campaigns against the behemoths of the oil industry. But some have found hope in a growing movement that pushes governments and large corporations to leverage a more effective tool: divestment - or withdrawing financial support from the fossil fuel industry.

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  • Women are being failed by medical research—here's how policy can help

    November 20, 2017 |

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    Response Location: United States, Bethesda, Maryland

    Medical research studies have failed to address the impact of gender, and some studies even exclude females in “later stage clinical trials.” This discrepancy results from women being underrepresented in the medical science. The Office of Research on Women’s Health has piloted a Policy on Sex as a Biological variable to fund research that is addresses gender differences; the National Institute of Health has initiated a Working Group on Women in Biomedical Careers.

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  • Argentina is using tech to teach its youth about sex, drugs, and violence

    November 20, 2017 |

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    Response Location: Argentina, Buenos Aires

    Knowledge about sex, drugs and violence is alarmingly low in Argentina and surrounding areas, which has caused the government and other organizations to step in. Hablemos de Todo is an interactive online resource that provides information on a myriad of topics, plus a place for people to anonymously ask experts questions.

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  • The New Technologies That Could Slow the Slaughter of Sharks

    November 20, 2017 |

    News Deeply |

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    Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

    Each year millions of sharks are inadvertently slaughtered by long-line fishing gear, and the decimation of top predator populations has detrimental effects on the greater ocean ecosystem. New tracking technology that allows researchers and institutions to follow the movements of sharks and overlay the data with that of commercial fishing boats is proving a promising way to help prevent bycatch as well as illegal fishing, and better protect shark populations.

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  • To Save Their Water Supply, Colorado Farmers Taxed Themselves

    November 18, 2017 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Colorado is only now recovering from a 16-year long drought that resulted in the aquifer irrigation system becoming increasingly dry. Until the farmers decided to tax themselves for water consumption, realizing that saving water now and taxing themselves would protect their farms and livelihood in the long run.

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  • In Oregon, You Can Now Save for Retirement. Unless You Object.

    November 17, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    More than half of Americans struggle - especially in recent years with considerable economic and political changes to systems like Social Security - to save for retirement, and it costs states millions in public assistance programs. Oregon is piloting a new solution where the government helps private companies facilitate a small, automatic deduction from employees paychecks and sets it aside into savings, which is proving especially helpful for small businesses in helping their workers plan for retirement.

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