by Elisabeth | May 15, 2016 | News & Politics
“I rise today to address the great American bathroom controversy,” Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) declared from the House floor. CSPAN then caught the fiery progressive in fine fettle as he proceeded to eviscerate his colleagues from the Republican Party for their support...
by Elisabeth | May 8, 2016 | News & Politics
Seattle Judge’s landmark climate change ruling: “These children can’t wait, the polar bears can’t wait, the people of Bangladesh can’t wait.” The Stranger reports the lawsuit was filed by eight child and teenage plaintiffs through Our Children’s Trust, a nonprofit...
by Elisabeth | Apr 5, 2016 | News & Politics
Imagine a drug that costs $20,000 or more per year; contains “humanized rodent cells;” and may cause sudden death by anaphylactic shock? Wow. Give me some of that Xolair (omalizumab). But wait, it gets worse. According to Drugwatch, this widely prescribed medication...
by Elisabeth | Mar 28, 2016 | News & Politics
“There’s the girls, there’s the boys, and then there’s Landon,” transgender teen Landon Patterson explains. The articulate, soft-spoken, honey-haired activist confided to Fox4-KC that for years she never used a public bathroom. Why?...
by Elisabeth | Feb 21, 2016 | News & Politics
On Tuesday, just four days before South Carolina’s Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton took questions from voters at a lively CNN Town Hall in the newly de-battle flagged state capital of Columbia. Amid all the talk about Wall Street, racism, Donald...
