The funding of political campaigns, as we already know, is heavily influenced by big money contributions, to put it mildly. In fact, here in New York, just the top 200 donors last year contributed nearly $16 million, surpassing the combined
Read MoreIt was October 2013, and the opioid overdose epidemic was raging. Ardsley’s Harris Marquesano, 19, had a job interview the next day. Popular, kind and athletic, Marquesano had been diagnosed years earlier with an anxiety disorder, and later with ADHD.
Read MoreThe Kids are Not All Right I went into this reporting process loaded for bear. The target of my ire was homework – especially for high school students – and what seems to be the preposterous volume of after school
Read More‘Boss Hogg’ Wannabes Exposed by Local Newspaper in Oklahoma When I first spotted a Tulsa TV news anchor’s tweet two weekends ago about the horrifying threats leveled against local newspaper journalists in McCurtaind County, Okla., I immediately thought of my
Read MoreI hesitated for a full minute before pulling the trigger on this column, but then after a gulp of early Saturday afternoon espresso, I said to myself, “Self, if the show about nothing is good enough for Seinfeld, the column
Read MoreThis is the fifth installment in a series about Optum/CareMount and broader local healthcare issues. Local Woman Endures Harrowing Healthcare Experience, Fraught Medical Records Fiasco By Adam Stone It’s impossible to overstate the level of heartbreak and trauma Katonah’s
Read MoreThis past Friday evening I found myself in a hotel room in Albany, feeling like I’d just been propelled through something akin to a time warp. I’d just stepped away for a few minutes from a New York Press Association
Read More, Messy Marijuana Rollout Disrupts Budding Industry, Creates Logjam Like most surgeons, accustomed to directing the action, Dr. Stanley West was a commanding presence. A Vietnam veteran and father of two sons, West raised a family in Bedford, and
Read MoreA lot has changed since Anthony Ciarletta’s first day of employment at a pharmacy. It was the early 1980s, and he was only in the fourth grade. Ciarletta tagged along for work that day with his dad for a lesson
Read MoreEmotions ‘Run the Gamut’ in Family’s Hunt for Healthy Organ Gail Jasne, who is battling end-stage liver disease, received dark news about a week ago that also could have potentially delivered her light. Her phone rang and a friend was
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