April is National Financial Literacy Month as an effort to highlight the importance of financial literacy and teach Americans how to establish and maintain healthy financial habits. Most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. That means they will not be prepared financially when an emergency,…
While spring break is a great time for students to relax and enjoy time away from the books, it has also become notorious for traveling to party spots and “letting loose.” However, it’s important to not throw all caution to the wind. Although I am…
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released a preliminary report on the fatal March 11, 2018 helicopter crash in New York that killed five passengers on board. The report includes an interview with the pilot, the sole survivor. The passengers had chartered an aerial…
Last August, an 18-year-old Florida International University (FIU) student died after she was struck by a vehicle while crossing a busy roadway near the school. To avoid another tragedy, the University commissioned a $14.2 million bridge to connect the campus to nearby student housing. According to…
For the fourth time this month, a device has exploded in a residential community of Austin, Texas. The first three detonations were from packages left on the front porch of homeowners. In those explosions, a total of two people were killed and two others injured.…
As most of my readers know, on March 24 students and community members of the March For Our Lives movement will take to the streets in cities around the country to demand that their lives and safety become a priority. Conceived as a response to…
For many Americans, St. Patrick’s Day has become a day of celebrations; a time to wear green, don shamrocks, gather along green-painted streets for a parade, and attend parties. It is also a time synonymous with consuming copious amounts of alcohol. You don’t have to…
Alejandro came to the U.S. from Mexico as a baby with his parents. He grew up as a lawful permanent resident. As an adult, Alejandro worked as a dental assistant to support his family. He was convicted of drug possession in 2004 and imprisoned for…
As you drive down the roadway, you probably never give a thought to the guardrails. You just know they are there; you know they will protect you from going off the road or into oncoming traffic, right? Maybe not. Unfortunately, many highway guardrails are defective…
While most of our laws are obvious and reasonable, some laws seem…a little strange, even humorous as I wrote last Friday, in Dumb Legislation: You Can’t Bathe Your Donkey but You Can Buy a Gun. Click here if you missed it (you won’t believe these laws). Here are a…
Throughout history, legislators, nationwide, have passed laws to keep citizens safe. Some of those laws are sensible, appropriate and well-intentioned. Some are, shall we say, ‘unusual’ or, to be kind, outdated. Considering how difficult it has become for Congress or state legislatures to pass sensi
Five years after the Daily News told Lavern Wilkerson’s tragic story, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed a bill extending the amount of time in which a patient can file a medical malpractice lawsuit for a missed cancer diagnosis. Lavern Wilkerson died in 2013…