HealthCommentaryJenny and Forrest (July 6, 1994) – Forrest Gump. Mike Magee The historic pool is, of course, not a swimming pool, although at 18 inches deep at the edges and 30 inches deep in the center, the National Archives does have a 1926 photo of children safely wading in it. Seven decades later, a fictional […]
Mike Magee As Vice President Biden prepares to deliver his recommendations to President Obama tomorrow on gun violence in America, and with the NRA’s president, David Keene’s assertion yesterday that “I would say that the likelihood is that they’re not going to be able to get an assault weapons ban through this Congress”(1), America once […]
Mike Magee Like many Americans, I’ve been following the tax debate. We seem to have moved from “no new taxes” to “what new taxes”. The New Yorker this week came out in favor of Pigouvian taxes.(1) Say what? Back in 1920, a British economist named Arthur Pugou, wrote a book called “The Economics of Welfare”, […]
New York City is 8 million strong, the epicenter of global finance and "type A" personalities. It is also the home of 1 million obese Americans and an additional 2 million who are clinically overweight.1 Eighteen percent of those who are obese and 10% of those who are overweight suffer from diabetes.1,2 The cost of […]
Magee family and the passage of timeWatching President Obama’s speech today, as I was doing an emergency repair of my grand-daughter’s doll house in Cumberland, RI, I was very conscious of the passage of time, and the meaning of this historic event to various family generations. For Trish and I, born in the late 40’s, […]
Feedback from a reader about Barack ObamaMy post last week on election of President-elect Obama, positive leadership, and our future drew a large number of responses to the site, pro and con. I share with permission one comment from Susan Karim of Braintree, Massachusetts, with her personal wish for openness as we confront significant challenges […]
Armageddon or brave new world? With the economy in a tailspin and the federal government experiencing a record national debt (about $47,000 owed for every American), Draconian changes in healthcare are on the horizon. The twenty-two months of political campaigning and advertizing have really not given us much insight as to how the presidential candidates will […]
