The airwaves these days are thick with concerned talk about the world we are leaving to our children and grandchildren. Occasionally statistics are even thrown…
Posts published by “Marilyn Davin”
Public anger over judge and jury decisions is as old as the creation of the three branches of American government. Fortunately we haven’t yet reached…
Beginning in the 1980s but gathering steam in the mid-to-late 1990s, American doctors turned millions of their chronic pain-suffering patients into opiate dependents. There was…
There are thousands of smart people in this country poring over the financial facts, straining to accurately predict business trends. Nowhere is that future murkier…
A good friend came to visit me from Connecticut back when I was still working in San Francisco. She told me the one thing she…
Criminal trials for the most part follow a well-established trajectory. First there’s the arrest, then the arraignment, then the detention arrangements, then the pre-trial motions,…
It’s that time of year again. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is busy tabulating the nation’s official homeless count following January’s nationwide…
A ragged 10-year-old boy is picking barefoot through an ocean of trash, patiently searching for anything of value that his family can turn into food…
Jeb Bush was in town lecturing last week. Remember him during the Republican presidential debates? The guy on the left with the hip rimless glasses…