IN 2003, in the case of Goodridge v. the Department of Public Health, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found a right to same-sex marriage in our Constitution for all the…
Guest Commentary written by Angela Harris Angela Harris is a small business owner in Sacramento. She founded Wellness of Life Internal Restoration Clinic and Wellness of Life Products. In 2006,…
In summary Pending legislation would lift requirements for California’s doctors to report all domestic abuse cases to police. The Assembly’s three physicians had different opinions. Should doctors be required by…
In summary Gov. Gavin Newsom launched the community school initiative with $4.1 billion in grants to connect students and their families to medical care, counseling and other services. Budget cuts…
Construction workers build a new home in 2021 in Houston. Almost 5 million new housing units, mostly single-family homes, have been added nationwide since 2020, according to new data. Texas…
A row of library books. (Getty) Libraries that do not restrict access to materials deemed sexually inappropriate by the Alabama Public Library Service Board could lose state funding under rules…
Plaintiffs and family members of plaintiffs in the Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court case, Cheryl Brown Henderson, second from right, John Stokes, second from left, and Nathaniel…
A volunteer packs food at Three Square Senior Hunger Campus. (Photo courtesy Three Square of Southern Nevada) Policy, politics and progressive commentary Food insecurity climbed across Southern Nevada last year…
One of the first bills from this Connecticut legislative session to get signed into law prohibits the reporting of medical debt to credit agencies. The new state law bars health…
MAY 17, 1954 Ella J. Rice talks to one of her pupils, all of them white, in a third grade classroom of Draper Elementary School in Washington, D.C., on September…