I don’t get it — why is there not more open criticism of big drug companies as part of the health care debate? They’ve offered up to $150 billion in lower drug costs and to give Medicare a “discount” but… Continue Reading
Commentary Is this the year “twenty-ten” or “two-thousand-ten”? Is the emergency number “nine-eleven” or “nine-one-one?” If you are dealing with a kid, it better be 9-1-1. There have been cases where small children have been unable to call because they… Continue Reading
My son Ben and I had been trying for several years to do a boys weekend out without success. He has a busy IT business, and I have a law practice. Finally, instead of trying to find an event that… Continue Reading
I am continually amazed and dumbfounded at the willingness of some people to insist in clinging to ridiculous non-issues instead of trying to engage in a real discussion of what is going on in this country. At the head of… Continue Reading
Commentary Should the city of Redding move forward with privatizing many or most civic functions except for police and fire? I think this is one of those sounds-good ideas that will not stand up to specific scrutiny. The idea, as I… Continue Reading
It’s over now; one more year of MarketFest has come and gone. It seems just a moment ago that I was standing in the center of Library Park in downtown Redding for the first show of the new MarketFest season,… Continue Reading
Part 1 Very few people in the public arena seem willing and able (it is hard to tell which) to engage in an honest, responsible debate about the pros and cons of publicly funded health care in America. The conversation… Continue Reading
The state of California is the eighth largest economy in the world, just behind France and Italy, and ahead of Spain and Canada. That fact in and of itself is amazing, California being only one of 50 states in this… Continue Reading
Part 2. How the Deck is Stacked All the issues I mentioned in Part 1: The Basic Issues are made much worse and much harder by some really stupid legislation passed in California in the middle 1970s. At that time… Continue Reading
PART 1. THE BASIC ISSUES In my office, we get many, many calls about medical malpractice claims. That fact is pretty startling because of another fact: the level of medical practice in Shasta County California is, quite frankly, very good.… Continue Reading
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