MY WRITING
I won’t reveal who I’ve written for—and where—here, but ask me offline. In the meantime, here are some excerpts from my collaborations with decision-makers like you.
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The next cataclysmic threat to our national security may not be delivered in the form of bombs, cyber-sabotage or Paris-style attacks. Unlike the preparations the US has taken to defend against such acts of violence, we are woefully unprepared to deal with an equally serious menace.
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Fred Shaw went to St. Martin and all he got was a painful virus called chikungunya. On an island stop during his Caribbean cruise vacation, Mr. Shaw was infected with the mosquito-borne virus that causes a severe fever and an arthritis-like condition in people, similar to dengue fever. After infection, the virus still may cause long periods of fatigue and incapacitating joint pain.
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As the 18th-century English diarist Samuel Johnson said, “the prospect of a hanging concentrates the mind wonderfully.” In the energy field, it was the oil shocks of the 1970s that first focused our attention on the peril of banking our future on fossil fuels alone.
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We all pay a personal price for this terribly broken political system. Whether it’s a husband’s job shipped overseas, a woman faced with shuttering her small business, a new graduate struggling with loan payments, or a child suffering from chronic asthma, we pay for the ways in which well-financed interests are able to bend legislation to their benefit or block good policy ideas at the starting gate.
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The families who have lost loved ones, the people with substance-use disorders, and those who need medications for serious conditions like pain, anxiety, and ADHD are not strangers.
They are our parents, our children, and our spouses. They are our loved ones, our friends, and our neighbors. They deserve our help, and collaboration is the key to our communities’ success.