By Peter Fricke Uber supporters held rallies in Kansas City Thursday to protest a proposed ordinance requiring rideshare drivers to pay a fee for permission to ply their trade in the city. The Kansas City Star reported Thursday that, “A parade of UberX drivers and passengers implored a City Council committee Thursday to loosen proposed vehicle-for-hire rules and make it easier…
By: Avens O’Brien Last week, Starbucks baristas were encouraged to write “#racetogether” on their customer’s coffee cups to instigate discussions regarding race. It certainly got the nation talking, inspiring some Twitter mockery and an awkward MSNBC panel, before fizzling out to nothing. A week later, the race is apparently finished and we’re not sure exactly…
Victoria Mendez was driving home from work at around 10:30 p.m. Sunday night when she saw her estranged son standing near the corner, just down the street from her house on the northern Glendale-Phoenix border. “I rolled my passenger window down and I said, ‘Hey Hakeem, what’s up? How are you doing?’” she explained. “And he popped…
SEATTLE, WA – Remember when last June the mayor of Seattle pushed through legislation that would, beginning on April Fool’s Day of this year (no kidding), force businesses to begin phasing in a $15 minimum wage for workers? Well, as if the initial backlash wasn’t enough (certain small business owners that would have otherwise been…
By Josh Fatzick With a severe shortage of drugs used for lethal injections in the United States, on Monday Utah became another of a handful of states to codify firing squads as an alternative method of executing inmates on death row. Utah’s Governor Gary Herbert signed a law allowing the state to use firing squads to execute an inmate…
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Dat Ass Wykesha Reid, a 34-year-old Dallas woman, was found dead at the Deep Ellum Salon this past Thursday after receiving what family members said was her fourth black-market butt injection. Reid was a mother who worked at a nursing home, and according to the woman who raised her, Patricia…
By Blake Neff Millions of Americans, especially those with few other sources of joy in life, were amused Wednesday when a C-SPAN caller pranked the network by pretending to be the the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. (RELATED: C-SPAN Caller Pranks Network With ‘Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air’ Theme Song) Wednesday’s caller is hardly the first prankster to…
by Jose Nino Race has always been a controversial issue in American politics. It attracts the biggest of demagogues on both sides of the political aisle. Like most political issues these days, practically all the solutions offered involve large degrees of state involvement. The reality is that the State is the one institution that has…
1. The Galactic Empire Star wars is basically a story about a slick politician (Senator/Emperor Palpatine) who promises to make things better and all he needs is a little more power. Senator Palpatine: “I love democracy, I love the republic. The power you give me I will lay down when this crisis has abated” [Palpatine…
by: Lina Bryce Ricky Jackson, 58, was sentenced to death for a murder he didn’t commit and spent nearly four decades behind bars. Now he will receive more than $1 million from the state for wrongful imprisonment, ruled an Ohio court on Thursday. According to a release from the Associated Press, Jackson and two other men were…