SEATTLE - Education reform efforts are underway in Washington and across the country. Students may be the focus of these discussions - but they are not often asked to be part of them. At a conference today in Seattle with the theme "Empower Youth Voices," educators and community leaders are learning ...Read More

ST. LOUIS - A Missouri company, owned by a staunch Catholic, has filed notice of appeal after losing a "religious freedom" lawsuit over the government's plan to require health insurance to cover contraceptives. Several other companies have filed similar lawsuits. But Dan Cox, research director wit ...Read More

DENVER - We're heading into the "flu season." According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the influenza bug can start spreading as early as October. However, now many Colorado kids now have a place to go when they get sick: school. The Colorado Health Foundation launched a nearly $11 milli ...Read More

RICHMOND, Va. - More than 180,000 signatures have been gathered for a petition against the use of live cats in University of Virginia (UVA) pediatrics residency program. Dr. John Pippin is director of academic affairs for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which has been leading the ...Read More

RALEIGH, N.C. - North Carolina's growing Hispanic population is prompting public services like local health departments to rethink how they communicate with the Spanish-speaking citizens in the state. During the spring 2011 tornadoes through Wake County, Sue Lynn Ledford, director of the Wake County ...Read More

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Efforts continue to pass an amendment to Florida's state constitution to protect annual funding for environmental protection and restoration. The Florida Land and Legacy Campaign is working through a petition drive to put an amendment on the November 2014 ballot to guarantee annu ...Read More

CHEBOYGAN, Mich. - Anyone who thinks hunters vote mainly on the issue of gun rights might want to think again. A new poll of sportsmen finds the vast majority concerned about things like wildlife habitat and clean water. Most who were surveyed for the National Wildlife Federation consider themselves ...Read More

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - Tom Retzack of Sheboygan is a man's man, a sports official who puts on the stripes and blows the whistle at football, basketball and baseball games. Retzack is also a breast cancer survivor, who will soon pass the nine-year mark since his first diagnosis. He's glad he was sitting d ...Read More