Walter Brasch
Posts by Walter Brasch
Spearing a Tax Deduction
On a bright Monday morning, a day before tax returns were due, I bumped into my ersatz friend Marshbaum who was placing a change container at the Gas-High Mini-mart on…
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The Trayvon Martin Case: A Lesson Still to Be Learned
For years, my father, a federal employee with a top secret clearance, carried a copy of his birth certificate when he went into Baja California from our home in San…
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FRACKING Part 3: Corruption – a Part of Pennsylvania’s Heritage
The history of energy exploration, mining, and delivery is best understood in a range from benevolent exploitation to worker and public oppression. A company comes into an area, leases land…
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FRACKING Part 2: Health, Environmental Impact Greater Than Claimed
(This is Part 2 of 3. Part 1 looked at a state gag order on physicians. Part 3 examines why Pennsylvania is giving special consideration to the natural gas companies….
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FRACKING Part 1: Pennsylvania Gags Physicians
A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing. The…
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Labor Pains: A Fable for Our Times
Once, many years ago, in a land far away between two oceans, with fruited plains, amber waves of grain, and potholes on its highways, there lived a young man named…
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Outsourcing America’s Health Care
“Ola, Amigo! Pack your bags; we’re going to Mexico!” bubbled Dr. Franklin Peterson Comstock III, faux physician and money-maker. “Yeah, I could use a decent vacation,” I replied, figuring he’d…
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Sanctimonious Hypocrites Can’t Diminish the Warmth for Joe Paterno
Gov. Tom Corbett (R-Pa.) praised Joe Paterno and ordered flags on all state buildings to fly at half-staff for four days. That would be the same Tom Corbett who had…
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One Jew’s Christmas
When confronted by facts, these fundamentalists point out that the Puritans, the ones who fled England for religious freedom,
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Penn State Trustees Violated State Law
The Penn State Board of Trustees may have several times violated state law for its failure to publicly announce meetings and how it handled the firing of Coach Joe Paterno….
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