Flavia Colgan

This July, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, North Carolina and Utah joined Georgia, Oregon and Minnesota in providing designation of veteran status on veteran's drivers' licenses. To most Americans, this is no big deal. Most of us have seen a veteran vanity license plate on cars on the road. For veterans...

Today in 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted in my hometown of Philadelphia. Every year, we celebrate that act of bravery. I don't need to tell you that we live in a very difficult time. I know how easy it is to turn off the news because so much...

MonkeyReader.com is the latest invention of founders, Skip Scholl, David Rivoire, and David Lennett. The new website, launched just this past Thanksgiving, is a new venture for the team designed to fill an underserved niche market for children's literature; and, most importantly, to provide information and advise...

I have come on as a producer of a project I feel very strongly about and I know this community will as well. It is about worker safety and the unnecessary deaths that occur every day across America and what we can do to change it. I have teamed up...

Since the iPad's release in April of 2010, the device has found its way into both homes and classrooms. It's amazing to see the number of educational apps available on the market. Some mix games with reading, while others focus strictly on promoting literacy. It seems that most all children...

With all the turmoil and foreign affairs debate surrounding Afghanistan, it's easy to forget about the millions of Afghan civilians still dealing with the consequences that have resulted from over thirty years of war. Families from all over the country who struggle to make a living are finding themselves caught...

I have written about mixed-media artist Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell recently and am doing so again as he is consistently ahead of his time. As a pioneer in the world of art, Corbell is constantly attacking issues that are both personal and political no matter how big or small.

I...

Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell is an accidental Artist. A warrior who trained Jiu-Jitsu for the majority of his life; teaching and doing seminars around the world. The transition from Warrior to Artist began while traveling in Nepal, where he acquired a near-fatal respiratory disease that changed his life.

No longer...

When you first meet artist Miles Regis, his calm and peaceful spirit is as ever-present as his ultra-chic sense of style. With shoulder-length dreadlocks, self-designed clothing, and an inviting smile, Miles is the type of individual that strangers are immediately inclined to introduce themselves to. Like most others,...

Remember the days as a child when you would beg your mom (or in my case dad) to read you a Dr. Seuss story? Well, children (and moms & dads) these days are blessed with the magic of the iPhone for instant entertainment. And what better way to occupy a...

As the unemployment numbers grow grimmer by the day, everyone is hoping for an end in sight, but no one knows for sure when that will happen. The March unemployment rate has reached a 25 year high at 8.5 percent. Upon further inspection of the unemployment numbers, I discovered an...

Hillary Clinton's "Bill Clinton Problem" is a joke that has become not so funny. In a debate earlier this year, Mitt Romney got a huge laugh line when he said, "The idea of Bill Clinton back in the White House with nothing to do is something I can't imagine." Hillary...

Here's my endorsement for 2008 Democratic Party Nominee which ran today on the editorial page of the Philadelphia Daily news, where I serve as a member of the editorial board.

The writer Ingrid Bengis once observed, "Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change." What this country needs...

In Tennessee and Texas, when animals are being put down, the chemical pancuronium bromide has been outlawed due to the excruciating pain it subjects the dying animals to.

Yet in lethal injections administered to death-row inmates, Texas, Tennessee and dozens of other states use pancuronium bromide, which stops breathing and...

As someone who studied comparative religion, with a focus on Hinduism, I spent a great deal of time also studying the politics of the region, both in India and Muslim Pakistan. I've understood that while we might not necessarily have been on a road that specifically was going to lead...

As someone of deep faith and a political junkie, I'm fascinated by the convergence of faith and politics. Though I'm far from those on the right who think God and politics should be inseparable, I also don't agree with those who say politicians shouldn't talk about their faith and how...

We are lucky, in America, to have some of the finest institutions in their field, in the world. Among our many fine institutions are the world-class Children's Hospitals that exist in major cities. But, for all the great work they do, they cannot do everything.

One amazing...

This week's fires in Southern California once again showed how much of a threat a small tinder can become, how we're still unprepared to deal with it, but also, even when things seem to be bleak for many in America, our best nature comes out in times of need.
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How do you think your boss would react? Face red? Fist clenched? Maybe a couple of words of profanity coming...

PRESIDENT Bush looks tired. Tony Snow looks more confused than ever. No one has seen much of Vice President Cheney lately. I wouldn't be surprised if his ticker has given up.

After months and months of yelling that anyone who dared criticize the lack of planning or direction in Iraq...