Cruz Reynoso was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to the California Supreme Court in 1982 and served four years until he was swept out of office with Chief Justice Rose Bird and Associate Justice Joseph Grodin in the re-call election…
In 2005, I had the pleasure of meeting Nina Rosenwald at her office in The Chrysler Building in New York City while leading a national referendum in the Presbyterian Church USA. Later, I learned that she was the granddaughter of…
For over 40 years, I have read Aviation Week & Space Technology at the urging of my beloved college professor, Dr. Harold W. "Bill" Rood. During that time, AW&ST has had many gifted writers, but one of my all-time favorites…
As I have commented many times, while we need to address problems related to policing minority communities, increasingly the victims of senseless killings are wonderful people recruited from minority communities to serve in law enforcement. (See my Hero of the…
On May 27, 2019, Bill Buckner died at the age of 69. We got to know Bill and his wife Jody on a week-long rafting trip down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River almost 20 years ago and thoroughly…
There has been a debate in law enforcement circles for several years about the best response to the all-too-frequent situations involving armed attacks on schools. The emerging consensus seems to support immediate and direct intervention even at the risk of…
In an era when politics has definitely gotten nastier, it is worth remembering a kind and good man who always conducted himself with dignity and stayed the course as a moderate. Dick Lugar (R- Indiana) passed this month at the…
This month's hero is a man who has answered a desperate call for a unique kind of help to save the lives of endangered sea turtles. As the Arctic ice melts and the polar vortex sweeps lower each winter,…
Like most people I know, the greatest debt of gratitude in my life is my parents: because they did so much to instill in me the right values and supported me with endless acts of kindness, and they also sacrificed for…
My October, 2016, Hero of the Month was Dr. Paul Allen Cox; this month it is Dr. Richard Sacra. Dr. Sacra is one of hundreds of doctors from the United States and Europe, who along with their colleagues, tend to…