Category: Letters
Carbon Monoxide: It’s Not Just at Home
January 7th, 2012, No Comments
It’s winter and we’re all hearing from the media about being careful with our indoor fuels. People die from carbon monoxide poisoning, an odorless and colorless gas produced from the incomplete combustion of fuels. My introduction to this issue was back when I was in college and an employer died from failing to turn off [...]
Wednesday was Canceled this Week due to Cancer
December 23rd, 2011, No Comments
I dispensed with Wednesday this week. It isn’t as if it is anyone’s favorite day so I doubt it was sorely missed. I’m recuperating from surgery for “ductal carcinoma in-situ” or DCIS, the most common form of breast cancer. That puts me among the one in eight women who can expect to be diagnosed with [...]
Dear Congressman Waxman…
October 2nd, 2011, No Comments
Tonight I sent an email to Congressman Henry Waxman, who was instrumental in obtaining the passage of the “No Fear Act“, promising government employees that they cannot be subjected to reprisals when reporting legal and/or ethical violations by fellow employees and superiors in their workplaces. This was important landmark legislation since reprisals are a well [...]
Android Killed in Car Crash, Services Held in NY
August 4th, 2011, No Comments
Modern life is filled with “hi-tech” objects about which we know relatively little. Take our “smart phones”, for example. I bought an ‘android’ phone during my year-long stay in California, which appeared to have a life of its own. I will refrain from mentioning the brand, having no concept of whether this problem crosses all [...]
Labels: Who Decides the Wording?
July 3rd, 2011, No Comments
Having spent the past year in California, I just returned to the East coast to obtain medical care and re-experience life amidst the diversity and drive of my former neighbors, the inimitable population of New York State. Of course, these days are fraught with rapidly disappearing rights of access to such necessities as jobs, housing [...]
Medicare Miracle
June 9th, 2011, No Comments
During my recent posting hiatus, I was in search of supplemental medicare policies. Due to the fact I became a Medicare recipient at an unusually young age, such policies were not available through private companies. Fortunately, there was an excellent policy available to me because my father is a World War II veteran. This was [...]
Apropos of S.F.’s ‘Millions Against Monsanto March’… Why We Can’t Win (Yet)
April 7th, 2011, No Comments
While looking at the announcement for this weekend’s demonstration in San Francisco regarding the ever-rising dissatisfaction of the public with unknown ‘tinkering’ in genetics and the food supply, I read a notice sent to me by the New York State Attorney General’s office. An appeal to them was made when it became apparent to me [...]
Time for Activists to Unite – Protest Harassment for your Peaceful Work
April 6th, 2011, No Comments
When can you be certain that you are being targeted for your work? Well, verbal threats tell you when delivered in person (on several occasions) and the ones which come through the email are always entertaining. However, when Park Rangers tell you that they have never heard of any parked car in the lots of [...]
EPA Under Attack
April 1st, 2011, No Comments
I’m not a big fan of mass petitions because most agencies will not count multiple signatories using a standard, suggested text. In many cases, identical letters are counted as a single submission but many disabled, ‘armchair activists’ can’t do more than press a few keys to express our wishes. To you, I commend even that [...]
My Case Continues: The Morality of Litigation, part IV
March 16th, 2011, No Comments
My case, cited here, disappeared before the court in an unusual decision made in 2007. As my (then) five year old case was still missing the lion’s share of discovery documents and a witness list, it was marked ‘disposed’ with leave to renew once we’d done our homework. In a highly unusual move, the court [...]
