From Prosecutor to Advocate: Why I care
New board member Ann Rowland, retired Assistant U.S. Attorney, shares her story. I retired last January after 37 years as a federal prosecutor in Cleveland. Among other cases, I was in charge of successfully prosecuting former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora and 65 others for bribery and other crimes in the Cuyahoga County corruption investigation. […]
Cincinnati & National News
I have been invited to speak to a class at the University of Cincinnati on Thursday, March 7. Molly McMahon Graziano and I look forward to putting together additional speaking opportunities and meetings while we are in town. We would appreciate your introductions to interested groups in the area. So far we have given presentations […]
Columnist Chuck Yarborough on Death with Dignity
Read: A near-death anniversary kindles a wish: Shouldn’t we be able to choose our own time to cross the Rainbow Bridge? – From Cleveland.com, October 26, 2018. This piece ran in the Plain Dealer on 10/28/2018 under the headline ‘Sadness? Yes. Death with Dignity? Yes. Humans Deserve the Same’ Chuck Yarborough, the Plain Dealer’s music critic, […]
Connecting in Ohio; Why I am thankful – and review of Benefit at the Bop Stop
As we move into the week of Thanksgiving, I am still processing all of the wonderful connections that we made across Ohio in the last week. Last Thursday we held our first benefit Cocktails & A Love Story at the Bop Stop in Cleveland. Long-time supporters joined us as well as people who walked in […]
A Major Change from The American Academy of Family Physicians
The American Academy of Family Physicians just completed it’s Congress of Delegates’ meeting in New Orleans. In a major change, it’s delegates voted to formally begin using the term “medical aid in dying” and reject the term “physician-assisted suicide.” They are also taking a position of “engaged neutrality” and are urging the American Medical Association to […]