Bay Area’s popular web listing service www.craigslist.org has, once again, become a place for scammers. This time it is through “apartments for rent” section. The scheme is simple. The person posts low-priced listing for a 1 bedroom apartment, include the address of the property and only the email as a contact info. The person...
By Larry Harris at www.gval.com
"The decision whether or not to vaccinate is an important one. No matter where you stand on the issue, there are undeniably risks involved on both sides: on one side is the risk of your child contracting a disease if you decide not to vaccinate; on the other...
Billions of dollars spent, thousands of people put in prison for some 30 years all in the name of fighting drugs only to find that in the year 2010 the drugs have won and now drive the U.S. economy. According to the book, “The Truth about the Drug Companies”, one in every third American...
Some people have been complaining about the lack of jobs in the journalism world and that may be still so, but there is a new trend of journalism emerging. It is called reporting embedded alongside its publisher's marketing campaigns. And Army Times is leading the way in this market.
Watchdogs are wishing you a prosperous and joyful year. And at the end of this year it is only appropriate to summarize the year in the form of Best of Watchdogs 2009 (aka the most popular articles):
In the effort to prevent another bailout bill from passing and benefitting drug and health care businesses I wrote my own version, one that has the people's interest in mind, designed to drive the health care costs down. It will not be 1000-page-long and it will not cost $900 billion. And I'll write it...
While observing media conglomerates collapsing under their own weight, reading the below minimum wage job ads for journalists and filtering through promotional articles, I couldn't help but wonder, what is going to happen to the journalism profession? My search for answers got me all the way to Harvard.
I was about to embark on another project with ICEA this late spring when the news of the swine flu virus broke out carried out by almost every major news outlet. The CDC was proclaiming yet different stage of the threat: pandemic, not pandemic yet, but close… Airports were empty, many people...
Today I heard a lecture, so called dharma talk, of one Buddhist monk in Sausalito. She talked about being present as an activity and emphasized the difference between activity and activism.
The job hunting situation is getting pretty desperate. Take a look at this ad I found on Craigslist, popular classifieds ...
