June 24, 2020 – The maker of the deadly herbicide, Roundup – with its main ingredient ‘glyphosate’ – has reached a settlement in the US cases filed against it, topping out at $10.9 billion dollars – enough to provide a maximum of $100,000 to each of the 125,000 plaintiffs who…
June 19, 2020 – Today is a day of remembrance and reflection on how African-Americans were enslaved by those who we often exalt as founders of our nation and of our Constitution – but we rarely look to the darker side of American history – the enslavement of countless numbers…
June 18, 2020 – A widely unexpected turn of events has led the US Supreme Court to uphold Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as “DACA” since the Trump Administration had taken affirmative action to get rid of DACA to begin the process of deporting 700,000 kids brought to the…
June 7, 2020 – As the epicenter of the George Floyd killing, the state of Minnesota has a lot to deal with: systemic racism, and police brutality. But what about the law itself? The charges against Derek Chauvin, the former officer whose knee-in-the-neck maneuver is literally the killing tactic heard…
May 30, 2020 – Minnesota is literally on Fire and Derek Chauvin is the cause. The former police officer arrested George Floyd, handcuffed him, later pinning him to the ground with his knee on his neck. During this time, three other officers looked on while Floyd pleaded to breathe. The…
May 28, 2020 – If anyone is opposed to state-sponsored mandates, time is of the essence. This is an immediate call to action must happen Now! The Massachusetts state legislature is moving forward on two Bills (Senate Bill 2359 and the corresponding House Bill 4096) that would critically circumscribe the…
May 5, 2020 – As a followup to our programming on what has been reported in the scientific and jurisprudential communities, is the devastating effects of the herbicide glyphosate on human health, the food supply, and the environment. Juries in the United States have heard several cases where plaintiff’s have…
April 14, 2020 – Wisconsin voters were dealt a bad hand–a pandemic during a statewide election and a Democratic primary. The options: putting them in harms way, shuttering their polling places, or ending the statewide absentee ballot campaigns. By no fault of their own, these voters were caught in the…
March 23, 2020 – Throughout American history women have been subservient to men. In fact, it wasn’t until around 1839, that the Married Women’s Property Acts began to expand the rights of married women–giving them some “limited” rights to act independent of their husbands–as historically women could not own property, and…
March 22, 2020 – The United States is in turmoil. A pandemic reaching across the nation is something Americans have not seen since the early 20th century with the Spanish Flu. In 1918, that generation of Americans saw the onslaught of the Spanish Flu pandemic (Jan 1918 to Dec. 1920),…
