Styrofoam products banned in county restaurants VENTURA “”mdash; Styrofoam or polystyrene products are being banned at restaurants and concessions doing business on Ventura County properties. Following the lead of several other California counties, the Board of Supervisors unanimously decided Tuesday to ban the environmentally unfriendly products at 13 restaurants. Read more...

Howard Dean is not dwelling on the past. The former Vermont governor may have lost the Democratic presidential nomination, but his priority has since shifted to the broader goal of reclaiming the presidency and Senate control for the Democratic Party. Read more...

Correction appended Though teaching assistants, better known as TAs, often participate in a large majority of students’ classroom experience, many fail to realize that these leaders are students just like them, struggling to organize their lives and balance their responsibilities. Read more...

In the third and final presidential debate of the 2004 campaign, President Bush and his Democratic opponent Sen. John Kerry faced off on domestic issues, repeatedly returning to health care and education with interludes into a discussion of foreign policy. Read more...

American democracy has long been held as a model for the world. But every system has its problems. After the redrawing of voting district lines after the 2000 Census, only one of California’s 53 congressional seats will be seriously contested in the coming election. Read more...

One of UCLA’s astronomers was recently named principal investigator for a new NASA project that will help scientists and laypeople wise up to the mysterious ways of the universe. Read more...

As a gay student and someone who opposes two-party politics, Georgina Wakefield is faced with a particularly hard decision in the upcoming presidential election. While many students in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community support Democratic candidate Sen. Read more...