A big change in Salt Lake City
MTV News reports that Salt Lake City has just sworn in its first lesbian mayor, who happens to be engaged to a former state legislator. Jackie Biskupski is the city's first openly gay mayor, and only its second female chief executive.
Did Nikki Haley change her prospects for 2016?
Caroline Heldman, blogging for
Reuters, speculates
about whether Gov. Nikki Haley's GOP response to the
State of the Union address might up her chances of becoming her party's vice presidential candidate.
Haley's remarks drew criticism from the right, but she stood firm on her message in an interview with
CBS News.
Will Black women change the election results in 2016?
Black women had the highest turnout rates of any raceXgender group in 2008 and 2012.
The Washington Post analyzes the prospects for 2016.
Change your life - get political!
Former Texas comptroller Susan Combs, in
Trib Talk (a publication of the Texas Tribune), invites Texas women to get into politics. A good idea for women in any state!
She changed NJ's high court
CAWP notes with sadness the passing of Justice Marie Garibaldi, the first woman to serve on New Jersey's Supreme Court. The obituary in
NJ.com describes the career of this much-admired jurist.
Change comes to Taiwan