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BY MIKE MAGEE As Thanksgiving Day approaches, let's give thanks for the study of history, in part because it reminds us that Trumpian words like "vermin" have been used before and serveContinue reading...
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BY MIKE MAGEE It's not that easy living in the "Big Easy" these days and co-existing with a world dominated by water concerns. When Times-Picayune gossip columnist Betty Guillaud (as the folkloreContinue reading...
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BY KIM BELLARD Earlier this year I urged that we Throw Away That Phone, arguing that the era of the smartphone should be over and that we should get on to theContinue reading...
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BY MIKE MAGEE When it comes to our earthly survival as a human species, words are often under-powered and off-the-mark. Clearer concepts, definitions and terms are required for clarity. Here are fiveContinue reading...
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BY HANS DUVEFELT In spite of all the talk these days about health care teams and in spite of more and more physicians working for bigger and bigger healthcare organizations, we areContinue reading...
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Editor Note: This article was published a week after the Republican Party Primary debate BY MIKE MAGEE This evening, the Republican Party will sponsor their first Primary Debate. It will be historicContinue reading...
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BY KIM BELLARD When I first read the reports about some Silicon Valley billionaires wanting to start a new city, I figured, oh, it's just a bunch of rich white guys wantingContinue reading...
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By KIM BELLARD Since the early days of the pandemic, conspiracy theorists have charged that COVID was a manufactured bioweapon, either deliberately leaked or the result of an inadvertent lab leak. There'sContinue reading...
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BY MIKE MAGEE On September 25, 1939, Southern California woke with fear of The Lash of St. Francis or El Cordonazo on the horizon. The term refers to northwestern tracking, cyclone-laden stormsContinue reading...
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BY KIM BELLARD You may have seen that last week the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) gave approval for two companies to operate self-driving taxicabs ("robotaxis") in San Francisco, available 24/7 andContinue reading...
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BY KIM BELLARD I came across a phrase the other day that is so evocative, so delicious, that I had to write about it: "lazy girl job," or, as you might knowContinue reading...
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BY KIM BELLARD For better and for worse, our healthcare system is built around physicians. For the most part, they're the ones we rely on for diagnoses, for prescribing medications, and forContinue reading...
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BY JEFF GOLDSMITH Robert Frost once said, "Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." Increasingly, in our struggling society, that place is your localContinue reading...
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BY KIM BELLARD On one of the Sunday morning news programs Governors Spence Cox (UT) and Jared Polis (CO) promoted the National Governors Association initiative Disagree Better. The initiative urges that weContinue reading...
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BY ANISH KOKA Filling in the holes of recent stories in the New York Times, and Propublica on the outpatient care of patients with peripheral arterial disease Most have gotten used toContinue reading...