Republicans Push for Stricter Voting Laws
This week, over on the Election Central Web site we examine the Republican Party’s continuing efforts to change identification methods used during the act of voting. Some say that this is an attempt to prevent supposed instances of voting fraud. Others claim that this is an effort to suppress voters who are opposed to Republican Party […]
More Problems with Voting Rights
This week, over on the Election Central Web site we continue to look at the ongoing disagreements in states and federal courts around the rules for voting. A consistent political theme over the last year to year-and-a-half has been several court cases focused on voting ID laws passed by states and other laws centered around […]
Stuff YOU Should Know
Ferguson: One Year Later August 9 marked the one-year anniversary of the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri (a suburb of St. Louis). The incident sparked a riot in that city that lasted several days and flared race relations across the United States. To mark the […]
Stuff YOU Should Know
Let’s Hear it For Toilets! It is very likely that you don’t give much daily thought about where you go to the bathroom. This is because you live in a developed country and have access to a sophisticated sanitation system that keeps you safely separated from that sort of thing. But there are many parts […]