Lifestyle
The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and Divorce
November 22, 2016
How does divorce impact your coverage under the Affordable Care Act? What are the potential complications under President-Elect Trump? The Affordable Care Act is arguably the most important legacy of president Obama's time in office. It has provided tens of millions of previously uninsured pe...
Trump
November 17, 2016
Upon news of Trump's new status as President-Elect, the stock market went haywire. The market reacts negatively to uncertainty and as one CNN reporter put it “Trump is uncertainty on steroids.” While I, and many of my fellow Americans certainly may felt shocked, this type of stock market downturn...
What Trump’s Moves in the Past Week Say About His Campaign Promises?
November 15, 2016
Today, a week after securing his spot as president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump announced Reince Priebus as his chief of staff. This move is in line with post-election Trump behavior yet contrary to his anti-establishment positions during his campaign. Reince, chairman of the Republi...
DSHS Changed Visitation Policy
November 10, 2016
The Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) recently modified its visitation policy in a major way. There is now a presumption that visits between parents and children be unsupervised and in the least restrictive setting unless the presence of threats and danger to the child requires the ...
Rogue Electoral College Voter in Washington State by Guest Political Blogger
November 7, 2016
“She (Hillary) will not get my vote. Period.”, claims Washington State elector Robert Satiacum, a member of the state's Puyallup tribe and avid Bernie Sanders supporter. Hillary Clinton is all but guaranteed to win the vote in Washington State yet Satiacum claims that is not enough to obligate hi...
Clinton Allocates Extra Funds to Swing States – by Guest Political Blogger
November 3, 2016
With the election a week away, the Clinton campaign is spending additional funds in what were very recently considered guaranteed blue states. Six-figure sums have been spent in Michigan, New Mexico, Virginia, and Colorado after the FBI reopened its investigation into Hillary's ongoing email scan...
NFL and Domestic Violence – So Much More Needs to be Done
November 3, 2016
A couple weeks back we took a momentary hiatus from serious posts to discuss the NFL's crackdown on player celebrations. League headlines recently got serious when it came to light that New York Giants and former Seahawks placekicker Josh Brown admitted to abusing his wife in 2015. Like the 2014 ...
Undermining Democracy – Political Guest Blogger
October 31, 2016
There is a phenomenon in US politics called the “October surprise.” It normally involves the discovery of some new or unpublicized bit of controversial information about a presidential candidate in the weeks leading up the election. Hillary Clinton is getting the surprise of all October surprise...
The Last Presidential Debate Was, for Lack of a Better Word, Disheartening – Political Guest Blogger
October 28, 2016
The debate began with a discussion of the Supreme Court and the failure of congress to confirm Garland, meaning whoever becomes president will likely have the opportunity to appoint at least 2 justices to the court. Immediately after this fact was established and debated, the moderator posed ...
“It is their responsibility not to get pregnant” – Pregnancy with no Mention of Men – The problem with the Abortion Debate by Guest Blogger Intern PP
October 25, 2016
It has been a crazy week for abortion at the state level. Sadly, the events of the past few days clearly illustrate that abortion regulation must NOT be left to the states, as suggested by Donald Trump last week in the presidential debate. The department of health in South Carolina considered...