Is a Public Employee’s Union in California raising the cost of the prison system? Should the prisons be sold to private companies to save the states money?
In my last post, I explored the movement across the country to privatize the prison systems in many states. We looked at the high cost of maintaining prisons and one of …
I just returned from a national writer’s convention in Santa Fe. It’s called Left Coast Crime and I sat in the middle of almost 400 mystery writers. Spooky…the only thing that could be worse would be sitting among 400 lawyers!
What would be most interesting for you is the wide variety of people who write mysteries/suspense stories and …
With all the national discussion about Public Employees, should we cut back on them?
Before you decide, I’ve got a short story to tell.
I have to disclose from the beginning that I am a public employee and anything I post in this blog is my own opinion and not that of any employer.
Several years ago, …
I’m thrilled because my new book Reprisal will be published September 1 and available for purchase in early September.
It’s a thriller/mystery about an undiscovered crime–terrorists plan to use American children as weapons of mass destruction. Do you remember all the Somali young men who disappeared from the Twin Cities in the past two years? They were kidnapped …
In Minneapolis last week, business mogul Tom Petters was found guilty on all 20 counts for running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded people out of over $3 billion. What kind of a person would do this?
Although I don’t know Mr. Petters, I’ve worked as a criminal defense lawyer for over 30 years and have represented/defended a few …
Not only in Minneapolis/St. Paul are young Somali men (so young, each one is almost a child victim) mysteriously disappearing, it’s happening across the globe. In a recent article from the StarTribune by James Walsh and Richard Meryhew, entitled, “Jihad draws young men across globe back to Somalia,” www.startribune.com, it appears that the recruiting of these men …
Try to imagine living in a neighborhood of small homes. Your neighbors pay attention to each other and have become friendly. Some even offer barbeque on the weekends in their front yards.
But there are odd things about this neighborhood that you learn after you’ve moved in. For one thing, your next door neighbor is a sausage making …
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