A review of news articles of importance to you
Why police shoot so many times to bring down a suspect By Scottie Andrew, CNN Updated 1:14 PM ET, Wed August 26, 2020 (CNN)When police believe a suspect could harm or kill them, they’re usually trained to fire as many gunshots as it takes to bring that suspect down. The shooting itself almost always lasts only seconds. […]
I have lived in California for over six years. My nephew currently lives in California, just 30 miles from Los Angeles. I am concerned about the fire situation more so than I have ever been. Colorado now ha its second largest wildfire burning along with three others, bit nothing compared to California, By August 19, […]
INSURANCE HI-JACKING I am a Type 2 diabetic. Fortunately I get my medicine from the Veterans Administration (VA) without costs except small fees I pay to VA. But for the rest of Americans, the cost is soaring to as much as $1,200 a month. It only costs drug companies $10.00 a vial to produce […]
Get Ready for a Teacher Shortage Like We’ve Never Seen Before If we force teachers to return to schools during an out-of-control pandemic, I don’t know how many will stick around. This article appears in the Aug 18, 2020 issue of the New York Times By Kelly Treleaven Ms. Treleaven teaches middle school English. HOUSTON — […]
It occurred to me why a pandemic is worse than war. I’ve been reading Eric Larson’s book, The Splendid And The Vile, during which, in World War II, Britain in 1940 and 1941 faced relentlessbombing and devastation and still went to restaurants, bars and parties. They did this on bombed roads, homes with no windows […]
Why America’s Heath Care is Failing The following article is must reading for every American. Jeneen Interlandi is a staff writer for the magazine and a member of The Times’s editorial board. Her last article for the magazine was about the history of universal health care. Rahim Fortune is a fine art and documentary photographer from the Chickasaw Nation […]
The Wall St Journal’s recent editorial gave the best argument for opening schools that convinced me to agree after being undecided. Here are a few arguments: In a typical year, 4,000 children under 15 die from unintentional deaths due to drowning, 190 from flu, 436 from suicide, but only 30 children have died from Covid […]
The Covid19 19 is as dangerous as the blackouts in London 1940 in WW 2 when Germans were expected to attack in terrible bombardment destroying London anytime. The British government expected destruction from the terrible bombing. They sent warnings for people to change their lifestyle. Yet social life at Restaurants and nightclubs was at a […]
CNN reporter goes inside Texas hospital. See why it brought him to tears. https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/07/02/texas-hospital-crowded-coronavirus-marquez-pkg-newday-vpx.cnn
POLICING AND MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES Should police be replaced by mental health professionals on such calls? Not entirely. In Los Angeles the police made 6,000 mental health calls in 2019. Why so many? The budget for mental health was low. No hospital beds were available for psychotic patients. Psychiatrists were in short supply. This […]
