When you get sick you need to see that bills are paid to get dignified medical treatment.  That is a signature purpose of medical insurance.  It is supposed to make life easier for the indisposed. Both my parents had job related medical coverage.  Yet despite the promises that were implicit, there... read more

I have been writing about the stock market and the national economy, two intertwined subjects if ever there were any, for these past so many months and the basic underpinnings, instead of getting better, as one would hope and past experience with a growing country would suggest, essentially appear to... read more

So the public has had several months of debates and primaries and now Vice Presidential choices and Conventions, leading up to the last two months of the election campaign and, finally, the vote that counts on Election Day. Just what is going on and what does it all mean? Well, in general, what has transpired... read more

This is a protest essay about the shell games politicians play with public health, safety and welfare.  The premise is that if a proper job of flood protection for New Orleans and, by extension, the Gulf Coast were done by government officials there would be no need for an evacuation of any kind. ... read more

While Central Park is a big, beautiful urban space in the middle of a crowded City, the specific goal I had in mind for my last visit was to see the Zoo there, something I had not done in more than twenty years, since the Administration of Mayor Edward Irving Koch and his Parks Commissioner, Henry Stern. Way... read more