By Slava Tsukerman On the night of September 5, 2018, an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 occurred in the South of the Ural Mountains in Russia. There were no casualties. Nevertheless, more than ten public facilities were damaged. Among them were kindergartens, regular schools, as well as an industrial technical school. The power of […]
Saying goodbye to Oberlin College
As I have mentioned elsewhere in my memoirs, Oberlin turned out to have been an excellent choice to enable me to develop both as a student and socially. I have also mentioned how, due to an altercation with my father about which I felt very ashamed, I took a year off from college as penance […]
TSUKERMAN: Lithuanian “Mission Siberia”
By Slava Tsukerman The Lithuanian youth project “Mission Siberia” was launched in 2006. Its main goal is to let young Lithuanians to visit places where Lithuanians were imprisoned into GULAG camps or were exiled during Stalin’s repressions. After the annexation of the Baltic republics to the USSR in June 1940, NKVD officers started to […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: LNP’s belated attention to hospital gouging
Sent: Sun, Aug 26, 2018 7:37 am Subject: Nonprofit hospital surpluses misusedNonprofit hospital surpluses raise questions for patients, especially those struggling with medical bills https://lancasteronline.com/opinion/editorials/nonprofit-hospital-surpluses-raise-questions-for-patients-especially-those-struggling/article_f799cbb4-a7e8-11e8-a806-7f4de245c247.html (Via LNP | LancasterOnline) Thanks for the link. The Lancaster Newspaper has a way of running articles long after their implications are yet actionable. Newslanc crusaded for over a […]
Around and around we go… but sometimes we learn from it
I was around eleven years old, which was seventy years ago. I had a red bicycle with balloon tires that I decided to try to sell it. For me it was a business adventure. I placed an advertisement in the classified section of the Bulletin (“In Philadelphia almost everyone reads the Bulletin”) and received an inquiry from […]
Why Marijuana Will Play a Major Role in the Next Two National Elections
Drug War Chronicle by Phil Smith Last week, the San Jose Convention Center hosted the National Cannabis Industry Association’s (NCIA) 2018 Cannabis Business Summit and Expo. More than 7,000 marijuana industry players and hopefuls crammed into exhibition halls and conference rooms for the three-day confab, located squarely in the heart of the world’s largest legal […]
TSUKERMAN: The Future of Mother Volga
By Slava Tsukerman Wikipedia states: “The Volga is the longest river in Europe. It is also Europe’s largest river in terms of discharge and drainage basin. The river flows through central Russia and into the Caspian Sea, and is widely regarded as the national river of Russia. “Eleven of the twenty largest cities of Russia, including the capital, Moscow, are located in the Volga’s drainage basin. Some […]
LETTER: Questions past actions resulting in $193.7M added city debt
So $193.7M of debt plus all of the water and sewer bills collected is decades of neglect? Where was this money spent? I don’t understand how the two paragraphs below reconcile. “The city continues to rebuild its infrastructure after decades of neglect, they said, and though progress has been made, hundreds of millions of […]
In Portland, police can provide referrals to social services when no violent victimization
By Doug McVay, Editor, Drug War Facts. I recently interviewed the chair of the Multnomah County Commission about the county’s implementation of the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program (Multnomah is comprised of Portland, Oregon and a couple of suburbs). I spoke at the same time with the official who’s actually administering the program. That interview […]
How to Prevent Opioid Overdoses? Provide Hard-Core Addicts Free Pharmaceutical Heroin
Yesterday evening Lancaster, York, Harrisburg and Reading syringe exchange managers met with board members at our home to discuss the growing opioid epidemic that is doing so much harm to our nation. We don’t have the answers when it comes to hard drugs. (Alcoholic beverages and marijuana are not hard drugs and can be safely consumed in […]
TSUKERMAN: War of the Sexes triggered by the World Cup in Russia
By Slava Tsukerman It is understandable that the World Cup has been the main topic in the Russian media. Unexpectedly one of the side issues attracted a special attention of the Russian Internet and press. Some refer to it as: “The war of sexes”. It started on the Internet. Some Russian male patriots got very […]
TSUKERMAN: The wealth of Russia is shipped abroad
By Slava Tsukerman This month the Central Bank of Russia published information showing that the earnings from Russian businesses and of the richest citizens continue to flow abroad through the purchase of stakes in companies and the issuance of loans. Last year 2.5 trillion rubles, $42 billion, flowed from Russia into offshore markets. This is […]
You’ll Never Believe What Country Just Enacted a Massive, Meaningful Drug Reform
by psmith DRUG WAR CHRONICLE: For years, Iran has been one of the world’s leading executioners of drug offenders, with hundreds of people hung from the gallows annually for drug smuggling and trafficking. But in a remarkable turnabout, that is no longer the case. Executions for drug offenses have come to an almost […]
Canada Expected to Formally Approve Marijuana Legalization
Drug Policy Alliance www.drugpolicy.org For Immediate Release: Contact: Hannah Hetzer, 917-701-7060 June 6, 2018 Tony Newman, 646-335-5384 Canada to Become 2nd Country in the World – And First G-20 Nation – to Legally Regulate Marijuana Canada’s Move Expected to Boost Momentum for Drug Policy Reform in the U.S. and Globally Tomorrow, […]