A transgender Utah woman making her first foray into politics will face off against incumbent Republican Sen. Mike Lee in November after winning the Democratic nomination. Misty Snow would become the state’s first openly transgender elected official if she wins the general election. She defeated marriage therapist Jonathan Swinton in Tuesday’s...

Senator Jim Dabakis announced on Saturday he is running for Salt Lake City Mayor. Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, will be running against incumbent democrat mayor Ralph Becker. According to his blog he’s been a Salt Lake City resident since 1971. “Salt Lake has allowed me to have a great, fairy tale life,” said Dabakis. “I am immensely...

For most of its history, the Federal Reserve has been dominated by bankers and orthodox economists, who kill the recovery at the first sign of inflationary risks. Happily, the Fed today is led by Janet Yellen, a very uncharacteristic Fed chair who spent most of her career as a labor economist, of all things. Yellen is aware of the changes in the structure of...

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has activated a city emergency management center after a patient was confirmed with the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the U.S. Rawlings said Wednesday that city officials are cooperating with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to determine who’s been in contact with the man. Medical experts on Tuesday confirmed the...

The US homeland security department has said it will put into place “enhanced security measures” in certain overseas airports with direct flights to the US. A UK transport official told the BBC the country would be among those to step-up security procedures. The move comes amid US media reports that al-Qaeda affiliates in Syria and Yemen are...

Aspartame’s presence in the world’s food supply has been the subject of great protest and controversy since the mid-1980′s when then CEO if Searle, Donald Rumsfeld, pushed for it’s approval to be sold on the market. As you may or may not remember, Mr. Rumsfeld went on to become George W. Bush’s Secretary of Defense. But aside from Aspartame’s...