Archive for May 2025

I spent the better part of two days and nights listening to students answer questions at the Foy desk (above), where phones have been ringing since 1953, when James E. Foy, Auburn’s then dean of students, opened the line as a resource for students and then as a service to the public. For just as long, students who sit there have been answering any question asked of them—or at least tried their best.

The proposed state budget released by the governor’s office earlier this year includes $5 million for the Homes for Heroes program, which would pay for housing solutions for veterans, such as rental assistance, along with counseling and other social services. The governor’s proposal would also fund veteran treatment courts, which exist in some Arizona courts to connect veterans accused of crimes with programs to address underlying issues, including substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Autonomous weapons, which select and apply force to targets based on sensor rather human inputs, would contravene the rights to life, peaceful assembly, privacy, and remedy as well as the principles of human dignity and non-discrimination. Technological advances and military investments are now spurring the rapid development of autonomous weapons systems that would operate without meaningful human control.

A Scottish Labour FOI has now uncovered more information about the scale of the crisis in CAMHS. Across Scotland there are kids waiting not months but years for mental health treatment…. Last year one young person in Edinburgh finally started treatment with CAMHS after a shocking 2,291 day wait – that’s more than six years. This year another waited 1,247 days to be seen – over three and a half years.