Eighty-two tons of coal ash poured out of the Dan River Steam Station’s 27 acre waste pond and into the Dan River on the Virginia-Carolina border last week in the third largest coal ash spill in U.S. history. Water carrying high levels of arsenic, lead, mercury, selenium, and many other […]

As many skeptics predicted, the moment the stock market began to wobble out of concern for a pull back of the Federal Reserve’s massive stimulus policy, the Fed’s new chief Janet Yellen jumped into a chair in front of a congressional committee Tuesday to assure everyone that she’s not going […]

With polls showing that nearly 70 percent of people under the age of 30 support marriage equality, it was only a matter of time before an openly gay college star entered the draft of a major sports league. That happened Sunday when University of Missouri’s Michael Sam, the SEC’s Defensive […]

For me, the issue of same-sex marriage is much more personal, I presume, than for anyone, no matter how passionate they may be in its defense, who didn’t grow up long enough ago to have gone through a whole gauntlet of slings and arrows of that outrageous fortune known as […]

A half century ago 300,000 African American men and women joined together with icons of the civil rights movement on the National Mall for the March on Washington. They marched for jobs, basic freedoms that had long been denied, and to listen to Martin Luther King. Many of their demands […]

There are now two new potential sources of energy which seem to be too good to be true.

Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction caused a national meltdown at the 2004 Super Bowl. Yet, the Red Hot Chili Peppers didn’t even bother bringing a wardrobe to last night’s Super Bowl halftime show. Despite the cold weather, singer Anthony Kiedis, and bass player Flea, performed their hit song Give It Away […]

President Obama addressed Congress this week in his 6th State of the Union address with a substantive list of legislative priorities the American people need Congress to act on. Rather than focus on these issues and the many more that Americans need – from immigration reform, to unemployment insurance extensions […]

It should not be lost on anyone that President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday marked a declaration of victory for the implementation of the historic Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare.” Despite the sputtering that marked the first month of the full implementation of the act last […]

Watching same-sex couples wed at the Grammys while recording artists Macklemore and Ryan Lewis sang the gay rights anthem “Same Love,” it is easy to see how many people think the battle for gay, lesbian bisexual, and transgender equality is over.