by Elisabeth Parker | May 21, 2016 | News & Politics
Krystal Lake got fed up with hearing Donald Trump promise to “make America great again” and decided to send a message of her own. On Sunday, the 22-year-old college student put on a baseball ball cap inscribed with the defiant words, “America was never great,” and...
by Elisabeth Parker | May 21, 2016 | News & Politics
Folks from the Republican Party are always going on about how much they care about our children and want to protect them from harm. That’s why we need to have transgender bathroom laws, they claim, to keep these weirdos out of our public restrooms....
by Elisabeth Parker | 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 Parker | 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 Parker | 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 Parker | 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?...
