, 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
Read MoreRebuilding Robust Local News Industry Requires Public Action Examiner Editor-in-Chief Martin Wilbur remembers a moment from his cub reporter days in Brooklyn when the potency and importance of the local press emerged for him in vivid display. He was assigned
Read MoreYou’ve probably read and seen plenty of coverage about new artificial intelligence platforms – articles and segments showing people experiencing the jaw-dropping capabilities of services like ChatGPT while analysts forecast all manner of danger and opportunity. In some research I
Read MoreLast month an interview I conducted with ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) generated a decent amount of buzz, and I’ve had a few people ask for an encore. I didn’t want to return to the device as a novelty. But I did want
Read MoreTurkish-American Westchester Moms Turn Tragedy into Common Cause To even come close to understanding why Zeynep Parlak Vitelli was shaking so hard a few days ago, you have to know what unfolded in her childhood a couple of decades ago. I’m
Read MoreCredit to Southern District Judge for Saving the Day I was poking around for unrelated legal documents last week when I stumbled across a case that just wrapped up on Jan. 26 in the Southern District of New York federal courthouse in
Read MoreEvolving Role of Private Industry Both Entices and Unsettles Seniors This column is part of a series on CareMount / Optum and wider local healthcare issues. Sometimes when you write a column – hopefully most of the time – you
Read MoreRoot Cause of Misinformation Age: Platforms More Than People Before I dive into this column, I just want to be clear that weekday trips to fancy Manhattan buildings, where I meet media bigwigs and thought leaders from academia, are many
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