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General It’s the Constitution’s birthday! What’s your agency doing? (Washington Post) Yes, indeed, Sept. 17 is the 226th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution by the delegates meeting in Philadelphia in 1787. Navy Yard Shooter...

States and localities owe far, far more than their citizens know. Maria Pappas, the treasurer of Cook County, Illinois, got tired of being asked why local taxes kept rising. Betting that the answer involved the debt that state and local governments...

Random bill idea: I was looking up something unrelated in Chapter 59 in the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure on all things asset forfeiture and noticed this odd restriction at 59.06(j): "the director of a state law enforcement agency may use not more...

A generic photo of prescription drugs. (credit: Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images) NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Do you have any old or expired drugs in your medicine cabinet? This weekend you’ll have the chance to dispose of them safely. ...

The NRA has come out against "open carry" gun nuts, who this weekend invaded a Fort Worth-area Home Depot after similar stunts in local fast food outlets. Now we love AR-15s and AKs as much as anybody, and we know that these sorts of semiautomatic carbines...