“A day fraught with emotion after kidnappings”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, May 12 2013 Ariel Castro, the accused monster of Seymour Avenue, has a mother, just like all of us do or did. Her name is Lillian Rodriguez, and what a Mother’s Day she must be enduring now. It’s nothing compared with the pounding grief visited so…
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“Drug overdoses fueling midlife suicide rate”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, May 5 2013 Is middle age really so awful? For a growing number of baby boomers, the answer seems to be yes. The midlife suicide rate is skyrocketing — up 30 percent in a decade, now surpassing even the numbers killed in car wrecks. According to the CDC,…
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“It’s a hacker’s world, don’t believe in it”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, April 28 2013 That dumb column you thought I wrote? Nope. Syrian hackers. The AP Twitter feed wasn’t the first credible dispatch to be hijacked. Media, business and government — we’ve all been wringing our hands since The Associated Press (Altered Post?), gold standard of fact-based…
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“Like NY, Boston won’t cower to terrorism”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, April 21 2013 Boston is learning nicely. But we’re the ones who wrote the rules on responding to one of these attacks. Taking the terror out of terrorism. Refusing to give the killers what they’re desperate for. Holding on to the values, the justice and the decency…
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“Nowadays, secrets are often easily exposed”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, April 14 2013 Who’s wearing the wire in your office? If not you, it could be anyone. Secret recordings are suddenly everywhere. I’m just back from Albany, where the whole capital city is playing a new guessing game: How many politicians will get indicted from the tapes…
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“Two thumbs up for unequivocal Roger Ebert”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, April 7 2013 Thumbs up. Thumbs down. Doesn’t that cover everything? Of course, it doesn’t. Even Roger Ebert knew that. On TV, the famously unequivocal movie critic delivered his reviews with take-a-stand adamance. But he lived out the final years of his life on a…
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“When will we tire of make-believe wars?”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, March 31 2013 So how did the big war on Easter turn out? Easter baskets, Easter services, premium-priced Easter brunches at hundreds of Long Island restaurants: Reports from the front say Easter is alive and kicking around here. Some of my cable TV friends were sounding…
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“Why don’t we join together for a proper single payer system?” – Ellis Henican A report by the Society of Actuaries had some bad news. The report says that in some states insurance companies will have to pay out an average of 32 percent more for medical claims on individual health policies under Obamacare. Not all states. Some —…
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“Suffolk is serious about its bans”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, March 24, 2013 What hasn’t Suffolk County banned or restricted yet? Wouldn’t that be a much shorter list? The roster of the officially verboten is getting awfully lengthy. Drop-side baby cribs. Toxic detergents. Steel-jaw leg traps for small animals. Infant bottles containing BPA. Electronic cigarettes in…
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