According to a new report from the Center for Disease Control, suicide rates among teens are rising drastically, as they have for the past 12 years. The increase began in 2007, surging 56% by 2017. As a result, suicide is now the second leading cause…
The Best Money Congress Can Buy Bernie Sanders and others have proposed banning corporate money from our country’s election processes. The United States has become a country ruled by corporate money—the company with the most wins. Do we have the best congress money can buy? Do…
The Trump administration has announced its plan to eventually ban flavored e-cigarettes. The reason? A series of vaping related deaths—6 to be exact. Please don’t get me wrong . . . I am all for a ban on vaping. Regulations should, absolutely, be placed on…
At breakfast this morning with friends and family the controversial admissions scandal was brought up. Specifically, whether or not Felicity Huffman deserved jail time for her illegal actions. Most at the table argued that she has taken responsibility for her actions, plead guilty, suffered personally…
Author/Attorney Mark M. Bello and Blog Talk Radio host Simon Barrett are pleased to announce the launch of their Journey Into Justice Podcast, which aims to explore different aspects of the justice system. They will also be inviting guests to share knowledge on aspects of the law…
A new law that goes into effect in New York tomorrow (August 14, 2019) will vastly expand the ability for survivors of child sex abuse to bring justice against their perpetrators and the institutions that protected them. The Child Victims Act (CVA) was signed into…
According to reports, a man crossed the Rio Grande river to the U.S. with his 23-month old daughter. He placed her on the bank to go back for his wife. However, the child jumped in after him. The man tried to rescue her, but both…
I live in Michigan, one of the more northern states in our union. I live in a moderately integrated suburb of Detroit, a city where the majority of the population is black. It wasn’t always this way—when I was born, 67 years ago, my family…
Since Larry Nassar was sentenced in January 2018 for sexual assault under the guise of medical treatment, many other Michigan State officials have been charged, fired, or forced out of their jobs. Among them is former MSU president, Lou Anna Simon who faces two felony…
In June 2013, an Oregon jury awarded $6.2 million to an agricultural worker who became paralyzed from the waist down after his torso was crushed in a hay bale cutting machine. The accident happened in March 2010. According to reports, the plaintiff forgot to take…