Reporting from Los Angeles and Washington — Civilian workers who suffered devastating injuries while supporting the U.S. war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan have come home to a grinding battle for basic medical care, artificial limbs, psychological counseling and other services. The insurance companies responsible for their treatment under taxpayer-funded policies have routinely denied the […]
An Investigative Report on Cyber-stalking at Alfred State College, New York
Introduction In 2007, when I first spoke to Dr. Uma Gupta about writing an investigative piece about her experience as the target of cyber-predators during her Presidency at Alfred State College from 2003 -2006, my creative juices immediately began flowing as Dr. Uma Gupta and I examined the compelling elements: the harassment of […]
Is Social Media Helping or Hurting California Politics?
The following is a three part series funded by Spot.Us, written by Jackson West with editorial support from SFAppeal.com. The content is Creative Commons, but all three parties must be given attribution. Social Media Meets Politics: Pols Chasing Publicity Find Web Waters Welcoming Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other popular sites for publishing online have […]
Beating California- How to Get Your Delayed Refund Back Now!
California is in financial trouble- that is no secret with a large portion of the state’s income coming from sinking property tax revenues. On top of that our wonderful officials spent months bickering over a budget, causing a whole mess of problems while living it up on their expense accounts. Due to that same "budget […]
Op-Ed: Bailout Money in Exchange for Majority Stocks
There is something that keeps bothering me as I write this article for GroundReport.com. This is particularly true with the present recession that plagues the United States economy, whose wide-ranging impacts on the rest of the world is beyond compression. Albeit, it was at least good that President Barack Obama was able to prod US […]
Will the Kelloggs Boycott Work ?
Last week, Kelloggs fired Michael Phelps from the Corn Flakes account. Michael Phelps will no longer appear as a revered athlete on the Kelloggs Corn Flakes box. Micheal Phelps was photographed in South Carolina taking a bong hit. He was clearly smoking something that he really wanted to inhale — though there is nothing to indicate that it wasn’t flavored […]