The issues that seem difficult for health care providers everywhere in the US–access, coverage, staffing, cost and quality–are often magnified in rural settings.  And rural providers may not be able to provide the whole suite of services that are available in large urban centers.  Primary care and women’s health needs are two of the areas … Read More Read More

It seems as if everyone is screaming out for attention in this era given the ease with which people can find audiences for their meanderings, political views, loves and pet peeves.  Just jump on line and wail away, with photos, videos and all manner of content.  Given this new reality, and everyone living in their … Read More Read More

America was born in rebellion over taxes.  Remember the Boston Tea Party?  And then hundreds of years later in the 2010’s came the TEA Party, which stood for Taxed Enough Already.  However, that has been the mantra of the Republican Party for the last 50 years beginning with Proposition 13 in California, a property tax … Read More Read More

America has more than a rooting interest in wars taking place in places like Ukraine, Gaza and elsewhere around the globe.  If we go back to the fall of the Iron Curtain and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the late 1980’s, we were led to believe it was the ‘end of history’ and … Read More Read More

Just because humans stride atop the animal kingdom doesn’t mean that what affects us doesn’t affect other species on this earth  or that the impact on them by things like climate breakdown doesn’t turn around and affect our lives.  Naturalist Adam Welz tries and succeeds in driving this point home in his book, “The End … Read More Read More

When a gorgeous Poli theater was restored in my hometown about a decade ago, one of the changes that had to occur was making the seats larger, because since the early 20th century Americans have gotten heftier.  Along with this collective weight gain, thanks to processed foods and more sedentary work lives, has come an … Read More Read More

As a Connecticut resident, it’s hard not to be aware of the storied history of Hiram Rickover, the “Father of the Nuclear Navy” and the development and commissioning of the first nuclear submarine in in 1952 at the Groton, Connecticut. Now with a fleet of over 220 boats, or ships as they came to be … Read More Read More

Richard Rothstein did America a great public service back in 2017.  In his groundbreaking book, “The Color of Law” he laid out chapter and verse the complicity of American government, at all levels, in the discriminatory practices that have led us to a condition of housing segregation in America.  That segregation is apparent in our … Read More Read More

The current approach to water management is failing to meet the demands of the growing human population and the severe challenges brought on by climate change.  Our guest, David Sedlak, director of the Berkeley Water Center and author of “Water for All: Global Solutions for a Changing Climate” argues that there are solutions to address … Read More Read More

When Hurricane Ian devastated Florida in 2022, two-thirds of the people who died were older adults.  Similarly, the greatest number of fatalities during Hurricane Katrina, the California Camp Fire and the winter power outages in Texas were among the same population.  And when you stop to think about it, it makes sense.  Many older Americans … Read More Read More