MAKE BELIEVE NEWS SACRAMENTO -- Proponents of a controversial new driver safety law enacted today proclaim it will restore civility to California’s roadways by shaming motorists who behave poorly. The radical approach, referred to as road darting, empowers licensed drivers…
California is woefully unprepared for the needs and demands of the “gray wave” of aging baby boomers. The doom and gloom prognostication for our state in which the “senior citizen” population will double within a decade is expressed by several…
Hollywood needs to “wise up,” asserts the state of California’s leading advocate for older adults. The California Commission on Aging recently convened authorities from the entertainment industry and the field of aging to strategize how to improve the portrayal of…
Not in recent memory has the political gamesmanship credit grabbing and shade throwing been so blatant. Each new day offers up news reports and social media posts and tweets to validate the old saying, “Success has a thousand fathers; failure…
By Stuart Greenbaum Donald J. Trump, 70, will be the oldest person to take office as president of the United States. In California, Jerry Brown, 73, is the country’s oldest governor. What they have in common as leaders is at…
Here’s my armchair quarterback assessment of the day before yesterday’s “Senior Rally Day” at the State Capitol in California. For the record, these notes could apply to all senior rally days of past. More than 500 people attended the gathering.…
Guest Essay by Paul Downey, Chair of the California Commission on Aging, and President and CEO of Serving Seniors (San Diego, CA) With the growing number of seniors in California, the Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services recently…
Don’t assume temporary water conservation has solved the drought problem. Sure, we can toast our efforts so far, just remember, sip-don’t-gulp. Because, the problem is not that it doesn’t rain enough. The problem is we’re using too much water for…
It began innocently enough – all fun and games. While earning college credits as a staff photographer for the Sacramento State Hornet student newspaper in the late seventies, I wrote a letter to the media relations director of the Oakland…
What’s in a name, anyway? The state legislature may establish a new California Department of Community Living. The proposed department, recommended by a coalition of legislators of a half-dozen senators and assemblymembers, would be housed within the Health and Human…
Humble Sky takes issue with our incomprehension of farthest outer space — literally and metaphorically to advance the virtues of curiosity and humility. More down to Earth, the weekly essays intend to provoke thought on subject matters ranging from culture and politics, to longevity and philosophy, to film & TV, music and sports.
Lead writer Stuart Greenbaum is a veteran public relations counselor, and editor or author of more than a dozen journals and books, including Longevity Rules, Set Straight on Bullies and Educated Public Relations.