by Hal Newman The Adopt A Highway program was created to promote community pride and to help carry out or sponsor activities such as mowing, weeding, landscape beautification and litter pick-up. There’s even a company you can pay who will provide the cleaning so that you can receive the recognition […]
Yearly Archives: 2009
15 posts
by Hal Newman Last evening I exchanged notes with a well-regarded television journalist who seemed to be actively refusing to acknowledge the importance of news-on-the-net via social media as a real-world alternative to the nightly newscast. The discussion was surreal at best. She truly believes ‘we’ need her and her […]
by Hal Newman Our out-of-hospital care system needs to be redesigned by people who are dedicated to the needs of the end-users [I despise the words ‘patient’ or ‘beneficiare’ because ‘patient’ implies you must wait before receiving care and ‘beneficiare’ implies that healthcare is a benefit – and not a […]
by Hal Newman Natasha Richardson died yesterday. She succumbed to injuries suffered on a beginner’s trail at the Mont tremblant ski resort. She was 45-years-old. Some folks have suggested that a neurosurgeon and an MRI within two hours of injury might have made a difference. Sacre Coeur Hospital is a […]
by Hal Newman When confronted with unfamiliar territory and a survival situation, many people follow a line of cascading decisions that lead to the unthinkable – they run away from rescue. I understand how the average Jack/Jill can end up rejecting the omnipresent dangers inherent in a survival situation and […]