Senate Bill 1 Nurse Licensure Compact Sponsor: Gay G. Kernan (R-NM) Everyone who follows the issue knows that there is a dire shortage of nurses, especially in rural areas in America — such areas as New Mexico. When a hospital doesn’t have enough nurses, patients can wait for hours to receive medicine or other treatments […]
Female genital mutilation, or “FMG” — this is a topic that is more and more openly discussed as a serious health and social crisis, affecting millions of women and girls worldwide. But we tend to think of it taking place only far away, and in very different cultures than ours — not in the United […]
In case you missed it, DailyClout recently unveiled a set of new laws state by state, so-called “ag-gag bills”, that fine or arrest critics of animal abuse who videotape that abuse. For those who care about this issue, here are resources: Make sure to connect with like-minded people on Civ Works! The Animal Legal Defense […]
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian,” stated rock legend Paul McCartney in 2009. Most people know about the growing uproar around the ethics of producing and consuming animal products. With the rise of the vegetarian and vegan movements, more people than ever are demanding to know: what goes into our food? […]
We all know what fear is these days. On Tuesday, May 22nd, twenty-two year old Salman Abedi brought a bomb to an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, United Kingdom. According to The Telegraph, this act resulted in “the worst terrorist attack in the UK since the deaths of 56 people in the 7/7 London bombings of 2005.” Twenty-two people […]
