TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
Officials have said that at least four people in Florida have contracted the Zika virus and warn that the virus now appears to be spreading domestically either through contact with mosquitoes or direct human-to-human transmission. Until recently, the virus only appeared in individuals infected outside of the United States, primarily in South America. In an Read More…
‘With surgical precision, North Carolina tried to eliminate voting practices disproportionately used by African-Americans.’ A federal appeals court on Friday struck down North Carolina’s controversial voter ID law, ruling that the 2013 law was created “with discriminatory intent.” Civil rights groups hailed the decision as a major victory. “With surgical precision, North Carolina tried to Read More…
‘Most of the questions involving the Flint water crisis and Gov. Snyder are still unanswered,’ says Common Cause. Six additional state employees now face criminal charges for hiding unsafe lead levels leading up to the Flint water crisis—but Gov. Rick Snyder and his top officials continue to evade accountability. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette announced Read More…
‘All such attacks must be investigated and those responsible for serious violations of the laws of war must be brought to justice.’ This story may be updated. A maternity hospital in Syria’s northwestern, rebel-held province of Idlib was bombed on Friday, the U.K.-based charity Save the Children said. The number of casualties is unclear at Read More…
Remember the children’s story about the Emperor who wore such fine clothes that no one could see them until, finally, one little kid had the integrity to say the Emperor was “balls naked”? Well, now interpolate that story into an analogy for the Democratic National Convention that’s been playing to a half-empty audience. The Democrats Read More…
It’s being called historic. A shattering of the glass ceiling. Unprecedented. But one thing must be made clear, in no uncertain terms: The Democratic nomination of Hillary Clinton did, in fact, land in the history books — but not because the happenstance of birth gave her female anatomy, as she would have you believe. No. Read More…