White Oak Manor, Inc is a South Carolina nursing home chain with a dozen or so facilities in the Carolina.  White Oak is headquartered in my hometown of Spartanburg. This for-profit chain is having major problems with preventing and managing coronavirus cases in their facilities. For example, White Oak Manor-Kings Mountain currently has a major

This is a solemn day. We owe a debt to the first responders of 9-11.  We will never forget. Trump apparently has. He lack of respect for military personnel extends to first responders. The Daily News learned that the Trump administration has secretly siphoned $4 million away from a program that treats FDNY firefighters and

Please remember the heroes of September 11, 2001.  Never forget. Who do you believe represents what a hero is? Brian Murphy was the head of the intelligence branch of the Homeland Security Department. Recently, he filed a whistle-blower complaint. The allegations are incredible.  For example, Chad Wolf as the secretary of the department ordered him

Will anyone take an unsafe vaccine? AstraZeneca halted global trials of its coronavirus vaccine, after a participant contracted an inflammatory syndrome that affects the spinal cord. Vaccine safety is important or no one will take it.  Just 2 in 10 Americans would take a free coronavirus vaccine were it released this year according to a poll.

“It’s all going to go away!” Here is a letter to the editor for Staten Island Live. It is the president who is at fault for the deaths in the nursing homes. The president ignored his intelligence briefing book that clearly and repeatedly cited the virus threat over a dozen times in January and February.

ABC News reported that front line heroes are begging for safe staffing to help fight the coronavirus. Nurses on the front lines are calling for the state to enact minimum staffing standards before the second wave. Under legislation, NY would set safe minimum nurse-to-patient ratios including a standard of one nurse for every two patients in