The Future of Public Health

The Future of Public Health

The Reasons that I Write These Blogs On vacation in the Ozark Mountains during the summer of 2024, I visited a Native American museum. During this visit, I saw an Iroguois painting with these words on it:   In every deliberation and decision, we must...
Flooding the Zone with Inexperience

Flooding the Zone with Inexperience

Confession:  I first heard the term “flooding the zone” from Alex Wagner on her nightly TV show. I like the term. Thus, it serves as the title of this blog.   There is one mark of the Trump era. There is one strategy that he learned from Steve Bannon in...
The U.S. has an Israel Problem

The U.S. has an Israel Problem

On vacation this past summer in the Ozarks, I visited a Native American museum. The Native Americans were here first in the U.S., before any “whites.” Thus, their name.  During this visit, I saw an Iroguois saying on a painting. I was impressed so much that I...
Plastic Pollution is All Around Us

Plastic Pollution is All Around Us

A Man With a Truck Full of Carpet Rolls  Several years ago, I met a man with a truck full of carpet rolls at a storage depot up in Michigan. I was there to pick up some luxury vinyl flooring. I watched intently as the fork lift driver working there put five very...
The Canary in the Coal Mine

The Canary in the Coal Mine

Lake Erie is the Canary in the Coal Mine for all the Great Lakes  Coal miners used to bring canaries in the coal mines to detect carbon monoxide (a poisonous gas). If the canary died, it was a sign to get out in a hurry or else the miners would die. Lake Erie is...