UP School District Settles Racial Discrimination Lawsuit

- March 19, 2017

Three families and the University Place School District have settled a lawsuit surrounding allegations of racial discrimination. Filed back in 2015, related court documents claim the plaintiffs, all African American, experienced “racial name-calling, discriminatory grading practices and other forms of harassment” during their time at Curtis High School. When complaints about the harassment were reported, the plaintiff’s parents claimed they were “ignored or rebuffed.”

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Lead Exposure Concerns Result In Nabelsi Thyme Recall

- March 19, 2017

We’ve read a lot about listeria and salmonella outbreaks and their related recalls lately, and now it seems that lead poisoning has joined the fray. In Dearborn Heights, Michigan, Aroma Imports Inc. has issued a recall of their “450 g and 4.5 kg packages of Nabelsi brand Thyme” due to excessive levels of lead. How was this problem discovered? Well, the potential issue was discovered when the FDA, the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Environmental Health Protection collected samples of the product and found that it contained high levels of lead, measuring at 422 PPM.

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Cancer Warning Now Allowed On Monsanto’s Roundup

- March 17, 2017

Last Friday, Fresno County Superior Court Judge, Kristi Kapetan, issued a ruling requiring Monsanto to label it’s Roundup weedkiller “as a possible carcinogen.” The ruling effectively makes California the first state to require such a thing, and it has concerned citizens and environmental activists cheering.

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Choosing the Red Pill: What is Reality?

- March 17, 2017

Almost everyone interprets the Matrix and Hunger Games as metaphors which obviously endorse the same truths that they, themselves, accept. It’s more difficult to accept that people whose agendas counter our own rarely believe themselves to be the bad guys.

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Everybody Agrees: Nobody Put a Wiretap on Trump Tower

- March 17, 2017

The last two days have been bad for the Trump administration’s political tactics team. Last night, a judge in Hawaii blocked a controversial travel ban intended to keep the citizens of six Muslim-majority countries out of the United States. Today, evidence has begun mounting against one of the president’s more outlandish claims – that Barack

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Is the Marine Corps Photo-Sharing Scandal Growing More Massive?

- March 17, 2017

The armed forces came under heavy fire in early March after servicemen were caught circulating lewd photographs of their female colleagues on Facebook. Over the weekend, investigative journalists found out the Marine Corps photo-sharing scandal went further than anyone had expected. The story was first broken by Thomas Brennan of The War Horse, a nonprofit news

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$45K Bloomington Settlement Bound By Gag Order

- March 16, 2017

Does a gag order on a settlement about open government sound a bit silly? You wouldn’t be the first to think so, but that’s exactly what happened as a result of a lawsuit filed back in 2015 by Tony Webster. He sued the “city of Bloomington when it didn’t hand over everything he’d asked for related to a Black Lives Matter protest at the Mall of America.” However, it didn’t take long before news of the lawsuit lost steam, and eventually “faded from view,” according to the StarTribune.

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Johnson & Johnson Breaks Losing Streak in Latest Talc Trial

- March 16, 2017

Earlier this month, Johnson & Johnson broke their highly expensive losing streak in the suits involving talc and ovarian cancer. The company lost three trials in 2016 prior to this latest; the verdicts from those trials total over $190M. How did this trial differ from the previous three? J&J changed its legal representation, for one

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