K.J. Lansing

K.J. 'Kate' Lansing has been a professional journalist for more than 25 years. Ironically, while she was born in Detroit, Michigan, she lived in East Lansing, where both writer and city had the same last name. Since moving to Los Angeles she has written for several local newspapers, collaborated on two children's adventure books, been active in public relations for Women's American ORT, free lances and writes opinion columns for several blogs.

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Grain importers pestered by beetle larvae arriving in rice shipments

Port of Los Angeles, Calif. -- For the fourth time since November 2010 U. S. Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) agriculture specialists have seized ...

Experts warn elder suicides and murder-suicides are rising

Orange County, Calif. -- Suicides and murder-suicides in Orange County are on the rise with 57 people who were older than age 65 committing suicide last ...

Botox irons out the wrinkles for some Parkinson's patients

Botox is no longer just for looking beautiful; it's for feeling beautiful, too. Botox is the commercial name for a medication containing Clostridium botulinum, a bacteria ...

Memo to Sarah Palin: There are Death Panels, they’re called health insurance companies

K. J. Lansing Make no mistake. There are Death Panels. This is what the American public gets when it listens to craven, whacked-out tea baggers: A Republican ...

Weather and volcanic eruptions could eclipse tonight's rare lunar event

Tonight and into the wee hours of Tuesday morning, sky watchers will have their first opportunity in 456 years to see a total lunar eclipse ...

Feds wage cupcake wars on moms with school age kids

The Feds thought it would be a ‘piece of cake’ to slip some vague rules and regulations into the child nutrition bill that Preudent Obama ...

The politics of dancing

Bristol Palin lost her bid to win on Dancing With the Stars. It turned out that fans of Mom couldn’t fix the results by jamming ...

Charter School Renamed in Honor of California's Governor

Los Angeles, California -- Tucked away in a cozy corner of greater Los Angeles is the suburban community of Woodland Hills. Its claim to fame ...

Germaphobia: Will fist-bumping overtake handshaking?

Whatever the reasons, fear of germs, fear of where that hand has been or what it has touched, fear of catching a disease, embarrassment over ...

Americans are the most 'ill-informed' society on Earth

Whether it’s newspapers, magazines, television, radio or billboards, we can’t take five steps in any direction without being blasted with fear-mongering about some dreaded malady ...

Senator Tom Coburn is hazardous to our health

If the first rule of physicians is “to do no harm,” then that should apply to politicians, too, who have the power of life, death ...

Study: Moderate drinkers outlive both heavy and non-drinkers

Here's to your longevity health toasts! But keep it to just one or two. Moderate imbibers tend to live longer than tea-totalers, according to a study by ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder isn’t limited to humans

Gina came home after a six-month tour of duty in Iraq broken, trembling in fear of everything and suffering from severe PTSD. Gina was a ...

It’s not your imagination, this may be hottest summer on record

With 43 days into summer and 51 to go, this is shaping up to be the hottest summer since records have been kept, and not ...

California sets eggs-ample for rest of country with humane hen cage law

Animal right activists and voters with humane leanings won a huge victory over well-financed, powerful egg ranchers in 2008 by overwhelmingly voting for a humane cage ...

Sloppy body part shipping became a headache for Medtronic

Mislabeled cartons containing 44 full or partial human heads were detained at the Pulaski County, Ark., morgue earlier this month after a Southwest Airlines employee peeked inside the containers. The cargo wasn't labeled properly and the packaging didn't ...