Barbara Jordan — attorney, former congresswoman and professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs — would have turned 76 today.
At the age of 59, her candle burned out too soon. She helped unify this nation, and we need her now more than ever.
When she was sworn into office as U.S. representative in 1973, the [...]
Recent Articles
1 December 2011
Our Missed Health Care Opportunity
For the past 17 months I’ve watched through my fingers as Congress has slowly eviscerated a gentle, brilliant, apolitical pediatrician and Harvard professor — Don Berwick. It’s been painful, gut-wrenching and depressing. Congress will finish him off today, when his resignation as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services takes effect.
The words “missed [...]9 November 2011
West Texas doctor done in by his own bizarre choices
In this country, a person has a right to legal representation. If you choose instead to represent yourself in court, you must sign a waiver stating you give up your right to legal counsel. If convicted of a felony of the third degree, you stand to spend 10 years in prison and pay $10,000. At [...]
13 October 2011
Final of four Winkler County ‘good ol’ boys’ faces charges in court
The last man standing in the unfolding saga of small-town retaliation against two nurses who tried to protect hospital patients from dangerous medical care is scheduled to appear before a judge today. The pre-trial hearing of Dr. Rolando Arafiles should be the opening scene in what should be the closing chapter of a story that [...]
7 October 2011
Steve Jobs taught us to ‘Stay hungry. Stay foolish.’
When Steve Jobs announced in August, at age 56, that he was stepping down as CEO of Apple and Pixar, you knew his candle was burning low. Born in 1955, his candle was snuffed out Wednesday.
He faced his own mortality at the age of 48 when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003. A [...]
