As California scrambles to conserve water during a historic drought, one multinational company is continuing to take huge gulps of the state’s water for profit. Nestle Waters North America, a subsidiary of food and beverage company Nestle, has been tapping California’s groundwater to sell in plastic bottles for its Arrowhead and Pure Life brands.
Tax Day is upon us, providing us another example of how overbearing and complicated our government truly is. April 15 is the deadline every year when every citizen must hesitantly file his or her taxes or face the wrath of the uncontrollable Internal Revenue Service. The tax code has become quite a monstrosity over the past few decades. It is riddled with all kinds of loopholes and deductions for corporations and wealthy people to take advantage of, leaving the middle class stuck with the bill.
Society has transformed minimally when it comes to women’s rights.
Spring is a time of renewal, but not so much in the swamp. All new coaches, even some new players, or at least ones we haven’t seen thanks to injury.
We don’t know about you, but we just realized how close it is to the end of the semester and freaked out so hard we temporarily lost consciousness. Seriously. Well, whatever — soon, we’ll all be off somewhere far away, doing what we do best and miss dearly: sleeping.
In a decision that should shock no one, Gov. Rick Scott reversed his decision to support expanding Medicaid to nearly 1 million Floridians this week. Scott supported expansion for two years but suddenly reversed course, leaving those who cannot afford insurance or do not qualify for the Affordable Care Act’s tax credits in a serious bind.
I’m going to let you in on a secret. Little black books are outdated in the digital age. So, for record-keeping purposes, I keep a Word document that lists all the people I’ve ever hooked up with.
One person’s decision to film a police altercation has radically altered the outcome of a police shooting in North Charleston, South Carolina.
If the events of last week told us anything, it’s that Republicans are behind the times. A great illustration of this was when Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana was shocked over the backlash of his state’s religious liberty law. Any casual political observer could see that Indiana was playing with fire.
We’re barely a quarter of the way through 2015, and yet 2016’s presidential race is already in its second wave of heating up.
Florida rarely ceases to surprise the nation with new levels of absurdity.
I’m sure you’ve been told not to bite the hand that feeds you, but what do you do if that hand is trying everything in its power to stop feeding you? What if it is, instead, reorganizing its fingers to point at you and then scrutinizing and stigmatizing you? That’s the predicament in which low-income Americans who rely on modern-day food stamps are finding themselves. In recent years, states across the country have desperately tried to strip low-income families of the food security federal support provides, and it needs to stop.
It seems a chapter of one of the year’s most grueling stories — one that encompasses journalism, college life and sexual assault — has come to an end.
This weekend I was watching “Catfish,” a popular MTV series that brings together couples who have never seen each other face to face. In the episode, 22-year-old Daisy expressed doubt over the legitimacy of a guy she met on Instagram and had been in touch with for the past few years.
On March 30, Indiana native Purvi Patel was sentenced to 20 years in prison after she miscarried her pregnancy.
There’s a common misconception that once marriage equality becomes a national standard, the struggle the LGBTQ+ community faces will be over. But as the bills emulating the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act in Indiana and Arkansas show, discrimination of LGBTQ+ people goes way beyond their ability to marry and extends to denial of service.
Giving any attention to the under-handed mischief and general plots that go on in state-level politics becomes exasperating really quickly. It’s difficult not to think of state legislatures as places where objectionable ideas go to get put in legally binding ink.
According to many news sources, Sen. Rand Paul will be announcing his candidacy for president Tuesday and will then engage in a five-state, five-day announcement tour. Paul, who is the son of former Congressman Dr. Ron Paul, is an ophthalmologist-turned-politician who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010 and has not been one to shy away from controversy. While many Republicans go with the flow of the Grand Old Party and often do not hesitate to inflate the deficit or ignore major problems, Paul has been one of the few shining stars of the party. He addresses the concerns of middle-class Americans, and his commitment to libertarian conservatism and advancing liberty makes him stand out from the crowd.
With this week came April Fools’ Day and a long list of hoaxes — Nutella discontinuing, “The Walking Dead” being canceled, UF President Kent Fuchs and football coach Jim McElwain switching jobs. But some of the events of this week were unfortunately and painfully real, which brings us to this week’s edition of ...
Solutions by The State News
