AltWeeklies Wire
Price Tags: The Elephant in the Room in Health Carenew
Selling stuff to patients is like supplying the Pentagon: Welcome to the wonderful land of the surreal markup. When you're sick or in pain, you do not shop for bargains -- which is the main reason that the free-market model is a catastrophe for health care.
Tucson Weekly |
Renee Downing |
11-11-2009 |
Science
If You May One Day Need to Go to an ER, You Should Support Health-Care Reformnew
The health-care reform debate has stirred strong emotions, but all the attention has been paid to the fury and fear on the right. Take it from me: There's plenty of both on the other side.
Tucson Weekly |
Renee Downing |
09-16-2009 |
Science
Cancer Warsnew
AltWeeklies Award - News Story -- In-Depth
Tucson Weekly |
Renee Downing |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Incomplete Educationnew
Medical Students for Choice fear that abortion rights and access are slowly being chipped away.
Tucson Weekly |
Renee Downing |
04-12-2007 |
Sex
Liquid Principlesnew
Imagine a world in which science -- and the common good -- determine water policy.
Tucson Weekly |
Renee Downing |
08-16-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Land Loversnew
Radical environmentalists get together for a day of warnings and celebrations.
Tucson Weekly |
Renee Downing |
06-15-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
For the Kidsnew
Since government agencies often ignore or dismiss disease clusters, parents and scientists are taking matters into their own hands.
Tucson Weekly |
Renee Downing |
05-17-2006 |
Science
Women for Wildernessnew
National group the Great Old Broads seeks to protect the nation's wildlands.
Tucson Weekly |
Renee Downing |
04-12-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Bad Grassnew
A ranching-supported weed run amok could be a more serious threat to the Sonoran Desert than development.
Tucson Weekly |
Renee Downing |
03-29-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
The Mercury Thingnew
Evidence is mounting that vaccinations may have played a part in the skyrocketing autism rate.
Tucson Weekly |
Renee Downing |
03-01-2006 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Little Housesnew
As housing markets boom in many parts of the country, more people are losing their homes -- legally -- to predatory lenders.
Tucson Weekly |
Renee Downing |
07-21-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
History Repeatingnew
Three Vietnam veterans talk about the war in Iraq and reflect on their experiences as soldiers. Watching the news connects them back to a far-away time and place that none of them has ever entirely left. Now they fear history is repeating itself.
Tucson Weekly |
Renée Downing |
11-11-2004 |
War
Tags: war & peace
