by admin | Nov 2, 2014 | Disaster, Disaster policy, Public safety
I have been to my fair share of presentations on disaster-related issues. When I hear a particularly good presentation, I know it is good because I have a lot of others to which I can compare it. Sometimes local planners, emergency managers, and engineers, among...
by admin | Oct 7, 2014 | Disaster, Urban Planning
Back on July 28, I told the story in “The Fatal Attraction” of a gourmet restaurant in Gold Hill, Colorado, that somehow produced great food with the help of a fantastically dedicated staff in a small town nestled in the mountains. I also noted that the surrounding...
by admin | Sep 10, 2014 | Disaster, Environment, Journalism
In view of American journalist Steven Sotloff’s fate—beheading at the hands of the Islamic State rebels who now control much of Syria—this is a rather dramatic statement. It came from Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at...
by admin | Aug 26, 2014 | Blogging, Disaster
Readers may well be waiting for me to post something substantial soon, and I plan to compose a significant article this Labor Day weekend. It’s been very hectic for me the last two weeks, and I am currently in Washington on a round of ten meetings in two days,...
by admin | Aug 7, 2014 | Disaster, Disaster policy, Public safety, Urban Planning
I’ll keep this short because it’s really all about listening to a half-hour video from Google Hangout produced by the Salt Lake Tribune yesterday, if you care to watch and listen. There was a landslide in North Salt Lake, Utah, earlier this week, so the...
by admin | Aug 2, 2014 | Blogging, Books, Restaurants, Travel, Uncategorized, Writing
When I first started this blog, one of the nagging questions in my mind was, “Is anybody reading this?” It is a natural enough question for almost anyone. For someone who has published books and reports and hundreds of articles in various periodicals, all with...
