A Step Forward In Food Safety

Posted March 18, 2010 by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

Each year approximately 87 million Americans — 5 million in New York alone — are made ill by contaminated food. Of those, 371,000 are hospitalized with foodborne illness, and 5,700 die. In 2010 America, this is simply unacceptable.
The fact is, our food safety laws have not truly been overhauled in more than a century. Back [...]

Mothers Snowed Under

Posted March 13, 2010 by Valerie Young

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog 
MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org
Would you believe me if I told you that a major snowstorm affects the lives of men and women differently? Could I convince you that there is a gender difference, even in the weather? Let me try.
In February, parts of the East Coast had a humongous snowstorm. [...]

Bring on the radical homemakers

Posted March 12, 2010 by Katrina Alcorn

…At some point, of course, I realized I wasn’t happy. I was trapped. I had money, but not time. It was like being surrounded by food, and dying of thirst.

It turns out that there is a way out of this mess. There are people all over this country–both women and men–who have made a conscious decision to value their time more than their money. Against the formidable current of popular culture, they have decided that this may be the only life they will ever have, and they’re going to live it fully.