New Orleans Rick Smith, heading our St. Petersburg research team, forwarded me a piece this morning done by Katrina Vanden Heuvel of the Nation based on a conversation she was having with Jesse Jackson who was calling from New Delhi. Most of it was old hat, but pulling the threads together it made a …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Triple Play
New Orleans This is a sneaky blog: a welcome to spring training curve ball kind of blog. Strike one: Fidel retired. This was supposed to be the day the right have prayed would happen to start a new day. Instead the reaction was “yawn,” and nothing has changed, but….note with interest editorials like …
Living Longer
New York City More evidence continues to pour in with one report after another where the conclusion seems past debate that if you really want to live longer, you had better not be poor. The latest by the American Cancer Society focused on the likelihood of early diagnosis (and therefore intervention) in the top …