Twenty years ago, you couldn’t pick up a newspaper without reading something about AIDS and HIV. I wrote my share of them. These days, almost nothing. We assume that the disease has been beaten. There are people who walk around with an HIV infection who may never get full-blown AIDS, and there are people with [...]

It’s U.S. Sen. Barack Obama. After reading reporter Clare Howard’s series on lead poisoning, he took the following steps:
1. He contacted local officials.
2. He sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to find out why a grant application has been turned down three times (which is an emplaination I would [...]