U.S. Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid

The number of people in U.S. prisons has grown at the slowest pace in nearly a decade, according to figures released Tuesday by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, according to the Washington Post. The study also noted that incarceration rates in 30 states declined last year. New Mexico apparently was not one of them, according [...]

The University of California’s Board of Regents is expected to raise students’ fees today by 32 percent, pushing the annual cost of a UC education, not including campus-based fees, to $10,302 — about triple the UC costs of a decade ago, according to the Los Angeles Times.