In what should have been a much more widely reported news story, considering it was a $835 million settlement, Dow Chemical chose to settle a class-action suit rather than face the prospect of a tied court-- or even worse, a potential 5-4 liberal ruling under the next full SCOTUS.

Recent trends in the conservative court have been to limit class-action suits, but this has not been without detractors.

Super Tuesday (March1) is one of the most heavily covered events in the presidential election process. With over a dozen contests and a quarter of the delegates up for grabs on the Democratic side and nearly 30 percent of the delegates on the Republican side, Super Tuesday can pave a clear path to the nomination for the candidate who can win the most states.

NPR recently reported nationally on an interview between public radio reporter Jude Joffe-Block and campaign directors of two nonpartisan organizations on the state of elections in Arizona. Joffe-Block spoke with Patrick McWhorter of Open Primaries and Timothy Castro of Independents for Arizona, who argue that independent voters are not being treated fairly.

As the presidential election cycle ramps up, the usual polarizations are apparent: blue states and red states, Tea Party vs. liberals, and right-to-life vs. choice. The new anti-establishment trend has firmly established itself with Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump gaining unexpected support.

However, another trend has gone unexplored by campaign analysts: the lack of candidates from the West.

Colorado State Representative Patrick Neville (R-Castle Rock) has introduced a bill that would allow teachers and faculty in the state who possess a concealed carry license to carry firearms in school.

Neville is a Columbine High School graduate who survived the infamous 1999 mass shooting, which USA Today notes left 13 dead and 20 injured.

During the 2008 election, then-candidate Barack Obama promised that one of his first actions as president would be to close Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. military prison in Cuba. He followed up that commitment by signing an order on his very first day in office to close the facility.

Perhaps it was a preview for what has characterized his presidency: frustration and rejection at the hands of Congress.

I predicted three weeks ago that Hillary would sweep the South in her bid to become the next president. It was an educated guess, for sure, but there were a lot of contributing factors that made me openly make the prediction:

I remember the first time I used the joke. I thought it was amazingly funny and would put my worst enemy in his place for good. But I had to wait for just the right time. It was at recess. We were standing in line to play four-square. He smirked and called me “barf-bag” (it was his favorite name). I looked right in his eyes and said, “You should sue whoever did that to your face.” And for the rest of the day, I was the toast of the second grade.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) announced her resignation as the vice chair of the DNC on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday, adding that she was also endorsing U.S.

Independent Voter Project (authors of California's relatively new nonpartisan statewide primary system), a resolution will be filed in the California State Assembly on Friday that urges Secretary of State Alex Padilla to provide, in addition to the ballots issued for the political party primaries, a public presidential ballot that lists all the qualified candidates so th