by Ron Barak | Sep 8, 2015
Let’s get past the gut wrenching photo of the tiny child washed up on the Turkish shore that has been all over the news in the past week. Actually, the photo is not the tragedy. It’s the story behind the photo, of the millions of suffering refugees that is the...
by Ron Barak | Sep 7, 2015
As the schism between police and public seems to escalate with no obvious solution at hand, how about this story that appears in the latest editions of The Week, one of my favorite must read news sources: Ocala, Fla., police officer Erica Hay was on her way to get...
by Ron Barak | Sep 5, 2015
In the last year or so, authorities, with the media not far behind, have taken to referring to various fanatic acts as carried out by a “lone wolf” rather than by some terrorist organization. As if this was somehow not as worrisome as if carried out by a...
by Ron Barak | Sep 3, 2015
I don’t write Vampire tales, but I thought I would make an exception. Just this once. I promise. Once upon a time, a young man and woman on a get acquainted date were having coffee at a local spot in D.C. Said the young man to the young woman, “I once met a young man...
by Ron Barak | Aug 31, 2015
The findings are that the June 2015 Berkeley apartment bridge that collapsed leading to the loss of six lives was not carrying too much human weight. The question then is why the bridge collapsed and whether that could reasonably have been avoided? It apparently...
