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☆ Larry Bensky, a Fixture of Left-Wing Radio, Is Dead at 87
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Larry Bensky, a radio journalist whose reporting on major political events made him the signature voice of Pacifica Radio, a network of progressive, listener-supported stations, died on May 19 at his home in Berkeley, Calif. His wife, Susie Bluestone, said he died in home hospice care. Mr. Bensky’s gavel-to-gavel coverage of the congressional Iran-contra hearings of 1987 put the Pacifica network on the map, earning him a prestigious Polk Award for radio reporting. Mr. Bensky, who called himself an activist-journalist, brought leftist views to reporting — often on people and issues under-covered by other news outlets — which he hoped would, as he often put it, “stir things up.”That was hardly a fringe view in the progressive ethos of the Bay Area, where he was based, though he still managed to transgress the boundaries on a regular basis. The free-form rock station KSAN, the voice of Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s, threw him off the air for interviewing workers who had been fired by one of the station’s sponsors.

Persons: Larry Bensky, Susie Bluestone, Bensky’s, Bensky, Haight Organizations: Pacifica Radio, Pacifica, Polk Award, Ashbury Locations: Berkeley, Calif, Iran, Bay

☆ A single mom who made freelancing her full-time career explains how to get started finding customers and setting prices
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

It all started when Haight was looking on freelancing site Fiverr for someone to make a logo for a side business she had. She left the magazine and other side hustles a few years later to focus on freelance editing full time. She said these are examples of "things that would've never been able to happen before I started freelance work." "I prefer freelance work for the variety, for the freedom." "Whenever someone does freelance work, they quickly fall in love with the flexibility it offers," she said.

Persons: Nancy Haight, Haight, I've, would've Organizations: Service Locations: Wall, Silicon, Eugene , Oregon, Fiverr, New York

☆ AI-Targeted Internet Advertisements Fueling Looming Addiction Crisis
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Albert Fox Cahn | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

A new breed of direct-to-consumer services is aggressively using targeted ads to sell habit-forming medications. In short, AI and surveillance capitalism, which empower today's targeted ads, have joined forces with the deadly OxyContin playbook. As the Journal reported, after ADHD medications grew to 20% of the VC-funded company's business, driving a $4.8 billion valuation, things came crashing to earth. We as a society may have come to accept being stalked by targeted ads, but consequences are much graver when the product itself is a danger. But above all, we need rules that ban targeted ads for drugs that can get patients hooked.

Persons: Taylor Swift, they're, haven't, Van Zee, OxyContin, prescribers, Dr, David Sack, Anthony Yeung, recreationally, Yann Poncin, shih, Ryan Haight, Ryan Haight Act's, Albert Fox Cahn Organizations: Circle, Purdue, American, of Public Health, Sackler family's pharma, Physicians, Yale School of Medicine, Bloomberg, Drug Enforcement Agency, Department of Health, Human Services, Ryan, Twitter, FDA Locations: Canadian, California, United States, New Zealand, New York

[1/3] Debris from overnight flooding along Cedar Pond Brook is pictured in Stony Point, New York, U.S., July 10, 2023. "Widespread, heavy rainfall capable of producing considerable to catastrophic flooding is beginning to unfold, road washouts are ongoing, and are expected to increase in extent and severity over the course of the day," the weather service said on Monday. On Monday morning, Amtrak suspended passenger train service between Albany and New York after flooding damaged tracks. "So that's basically what our priority is today, to try to get to them and open up these major arteries." About two dozen state roads were closed as life-threatening flooding spread across much of the state from the Massachusetts state line north to the Canadian border, Vermont State Police said.

Persons: Mike Segar, Boston's Logan, Steven Neuhaus, ABC's, Neuhaus, Melissa Roberts, Kathy Hochul, Irene, Phil Scott, Jeannette Haight, Brendan O'Brien, Rich McKay, Ed Osmond, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: REUTERS, National Weather Service, New York's LaGuardia, Amtrak, U.S . Military Academy, Orange County . New, Vermont State Police, Burlington, Media, Thomson Locations: Stony Point , New York, U.S, Eastern New York, Boston, Western Maine, Albany, New York, Orange County , New York, Highland Falls, Fort Montgomery, New York City, Orange County ., Ontario County, Vermont, New England, Massachusetts, Andover, North Carolina, Chicago, Atlanta

☆ See images of the floods plaguing New York and New England
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Parts of the Burlington, Vermont, area have seen 6 inches (15 cm) of rain, with 2 inches (5 cm)of downpours expected Monday afternoon. Amtrak suspended passenger train service between the state capital Albany and New York City after flooding damaged tracks. Amtrak shares some of that route's track with the Metro-North commuter railroad into New York, which suspended some service on that line and another. "This is an all-hands-on-deck" event, Vermont Governor Phil Scott said at a news conference, a day after declaring a state of emergency for Vermont. About two dozen state roads were closed as potentially deadly flooding spread across much of the state from the Massachusetts state line north to the Canadian border, Vermont State Police said.

Persons: Kathy Hochul, Fatih Aktas, downpours, Boston's Logan, Steven Neuhaus, ABC's, Neuhaus, Melissa Roberts, Phil Scott, Irene, Jeannette Haight Organizations: Anadolu Agency, Getty, National Weather Service, New York's LaGuardia, Amtrak, Metro, U.S . Military Academy, New, Vermont State Police, Burlington Locations: Highland Falls, Fatih, U.S, Eastern New York, Boston, Western Maine, Stormville, New York City, Burlington , Vermont, Albany, New York, Orange County , New York, Fort Montgomery, Orange County, Ontario County, Vermont, New England, Massachusetts, Andover, North Carolina

☆ Getting prescriptions via telehealth may change soon
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Patients will still be able to get prescriptions for non-controlled medications, such as antibiotics or birth control, via telehealth. CNN: What if you can’t see your telehealth provider in person? The other factor that’s significant here is we discussed all the proposed rules and the status at the federal level, but there’s also the state level. Let’s say the DEA puts out their final rule, and there’s some flexibility — some states might adopt the older Ryan Haight Act language from the federal level, so they might actually be stricter than what we’ll be seeing at the federal level. Khan: The DEA has indicated that the absolute requirement at the federal level is one in-person examination.

☆ GM's Cruise recalls 300 self-driving vehicles to update software after bus crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) - General Motors' (GM.N) robotaxi unit Cruise LLC is recalling the automated driving software in 300 vehicles after one of its driverless vehicles crashed into the back of a San Francisco bus. The March 23 collision was the fault of a software error in a Cruise automated vehicle (AV) that inaccurately predicted the movement of an articulated San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority bus, Cruise said on Friday. The crash caused moderate damage to the Cruise but did not result in any injuries. Cruise in September disclosed that it recalled and updated software in 80 self-driving vehicles after a June crash in San Francisco that left two people injured. NHTSA in December opened a formal safety probe into the Cruise autonomous driving system after it received reports of incidents in which self-driving Cruise vehicles "may engage in inappropriately hard braking or become immobilized."

☆ Michael Haight is accused of killing his wife and 5 kids in a brutal Utah familicide. Police reports suggest he had a troubling pattern of aggression toward children.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Police say Michael Haight, 42, shot and killed his wife, Tausha Haight, 40, her mother, Gail Earl, 78, and the couple's five children, three girls, and two boys ages 4 to 17, before committing suicide. The couple had five children: Macie Haight, 17, Briley Haight, 12, Ammon Haight, 7, Sienna Haight, 7, and Gavin Haight, 4. The officer told her there was no indication Michael Haight would respond with violence, according to the report. At some point prior to the massacre, Tausha Haight told family members that her husband removed all the firearms from the home, her sister-in-law, told the AP. Park said he last met with Tausha Haight on Tuesday, January 3 — the day before the family's bodies were discovered.

☆ Ketamine is being sold as a depression wonder drug. For some, it's making everything worse.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +42 min

The infusions at the ketamine clinic in his West Texas hometown were a Christmas gift from his grandmother. About five years ago, more and more of my friends started using ketamine recreationally. IV ketamine treatment centers charging $400 to $2,000 an infusion popped up all over the country. "Ketamine used as directed in an appropriate clinical setting very rarely leads to any dependence," Mindbloom says on its website. Like Nadia, most of the people I interviewed said when they started using ketamine, they didn't think it was possible to become dependent on it.

A newspaper obituary that offered a glowing tribute to the Utah man accused of fatally shooting seven members of his family in a murder-suicide has been deleted, the paper's apologetic publisher said Tuesday. Michael Haight, 42, fatally shot wife Tausha Haight, 40, mother-in-law Gail Earl, 78, and the couple’s five children, ages 4 to 17, before killing himself earlier this month, police have said. Tausha and Michael Haight. via FacebookBut a since-deleted obituary in The Spectrum painted a laudatory picture of Michael Haight without mention of the Jan. 4 murder-suicide. Anti-gun violence advocate Shannon Watts posted the obit over the weekend and flagged it for her 587,000 Twitter followers.

A Utah man fatally shot his family of seven in a home Wednesday and then himself, authorities said. A home where eight people were found dead in Enoch, Utah, on Jan. 4, 2023. Enoch City Mayor Geoffrey Chestnut said the incident has shaken the tight-knit community of about 7,500 residents. Enoch City Police Chief Jackson Ames said police had been involved with some investigations with the family a couple of years prior, but declined to elaborate. A law enforcement official stands near the front door of the Enoch, Utah, home where eight family members were found dead from gunshot wounds, on Jan. 4, 2023.

☆ Mountain Girl’s heartbreaking memoir: An icon of the Sixties opens up about Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, and what the age of free love was really like
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-09 | by ( David Kushner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +40 min

Now 76 and living in Oregon, Mountain Girl has gave us an exclusive look at her memoir. Altamont, the free concert that Mountain Girl and Jerry Garcia helped organized, was meant to revive the spirit of the Sixties. Today, 60 years since she took that ride with Neal Cassady, Mountain Girl is still forging her own path. Before I leave Kesey's farm, Mountain Girl and I walk outside to the old brown barn where Furthur now rests. But for Mountain Girl, it lives forever, an emblem of everything her generation believed in, and all that they achieved.

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