Politics and Topical News

Yes and No, after well over a hundred years there is much work left to be done. The 100-year quest to make the voices of American women heard on Election Day was met with much fanfare in 1920, when Congress finally ratified the 19th Amendment. This year, the centennial of […]

As America celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, some might wonder how a right as fundamental is casting a ballot took the same number of years to come to fruition for female voters. And what might even be more questionable than that is how such a right took […]

Suffrage Movement Took 100 Years To Unfold in Pre- and Post-Civil War America The first signs of the quest for gender equality at the polls revealed themselves over 40 years before the Confederate artillery shots fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Those blasts, as history would have it, sparked […]

Hospitals in Florida and the rest of the country generally are careful about safety measures, staff-to-patient ratios and infection control. There are specific standards of care they must meet in the communities they serve. But, enter the world of corporate healthcare and private equity firms. Basic safety equipment is a […]

Dozens of South Florida women victimized by the late Jeffrey Epstein’s elaborate sex-trafficking operation stand to benefit from a new fund established in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The fund, amassed from the Epstein’s $634 million fortune that was tied up in an estate in the Caribbean territory following his incarceration […]

As if the news couldn’t get any worse, the following headline appeared on CNN’s Web site recently: “Some nursing homes are taking residents’ stimulus checks, FTC warns.” Really? Institutes of care ripping off the elderly? According to the Federal Trade Commission, yes. “The Federal Trade Commission reported that nursing homes […]