| Mar 5, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyIn Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer has vetoed a bill that would have written anti-gay discrimination into state law in the name of religious freedom. In Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni signed an even more extremist law that sentences LGBT people to life in prison and...
| | Food / FarmingBig chicken-processing companies generate 1.5 billion pounds of fowl waste annually in Delmarva (the Delaware, Maryland, Virginia tri-state area), and it’s choking the Chesapeake Bay. Each year, Marylanders pay a small tax that goes toward the Chesapeake Bay...
| | Economy / BusinessThe two cousins who run the private equity giant KKR took home an astounding total of $327 million in 2013, new regulatory filings reveal. Much of this lush windfall came via “carried interest,” Wall Street-speak for the cut that private equity kingpins...
| | Food / FarmingThe Food and Drug Administration recently came out with a sweet surprise. Its proposed new nutrition label will finally give us a bit of key information we need to understand our food: the amount of added sugars. If you look at a nutrition label now, you will see how...
| | Rights / DemocracyTed Nugent, the old rocker from the Seventies, is now just plain old. And off his rocker. A political novelty act for the far right and a front man for the National Rifle Association, Nugent regularly spews venomous, vulgar, race-laced, abusive hate speech about...
