The San Francisco Bay Bridge is the artwork right outside my family room window. But, last night it was Van Gogh without his ear.

It was horrible to find out that two, newly-installed cables broke and that this left the remaining cables straining to hold up tons of bumper to...

Black-op at Black Rock

In all the world only one man challenged the Killing of JFK: Jim Garrison, a bold and dauntless New Orleans D.A.

"It was a coup d'etat," he told a nation. But how could that be? And, if it was and Americans did nothing,...

Dr. Don Francis, San Francisco's scintillation vial-wielding version of Indiana Jones, is getting ever closer to finding the 21st Century's Holy Grail.

Today, Francis and his colleges at Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases, a non-profit in South San Francisco, announced they are close to creating a vaccine for HIV....

The search for a fresh episode of Nurse Jackie left me looking down at my remote for a split second. It took no longer than that to get an injection of America's daily dose of Dick Cheney's patented fear mongering via talking knucklehead, ABC anchor, Charlie Gibson.

In...

Michael Jackson is dead. Now we love him?

Farrah Fawcett's dead. Now we love her? And, finally, in death, Ryan O'Neal deems her worthy of a death-bed marriage?

Death just brings out the best in us all! Aren't we special?

And, if one is terminally ill and at...

Melissa Huckaby Melissa Huckaby.
The woman on the left is from Manteca, California. That's very near Tracy, California where the woman on the right, also named Melissa Huckaby, was arrested in the maddeningly hard-to-believe rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl.

The verge of bankruptcy brought me to California. Spurred by a boom-and-bust cycle in western Colorado, packing up the kids and the trailer and moving further West was the only way to survive.

Looking back now, dueling banjos play the tune from "Deliverance" in my head, providing...

How many times did former vice president Dick Cheney whisper undermining, surreptitious words into the ears of Israeli and high-ranking Pentagon officials? Every day? Once a week? Several seditious rumors a month?

Those who listened are simply Cheney's Toys. Sadly, Dick does not understand his play date is done...

Kenneth Feld, the sole owner of Feld Entertainment and Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus did not appear in U.S Federal Court today. Buying his way out of trouble is a way of life for Ken Feld, but this time, he just may be trapped. These animal rights people are...

CNN made two scrupulous decisions before the tragedy in Mumbai. Both illustrating to the nation and the world the capacity of television news to be more than, as Edward R. Murrow put it, "Wires and a Box."

If the other handful of mostly entertainment networks owning America's major conduits...

How to make sure your vote is counted. It is up to American citizens to do their own reporting and their own investigations. We have learned the Mass media will not watch out for us. Here's how to insist on a democratic election by your own pro-active means.

A journalist learns picking questions carefully is one of the most important tenants of the job.

On this particular day, the object of my inquiry was the biggest, meanest, mood-altered, high maintenance-billionaire- bully around. What motivates a man like that? And why did such specimens seem to be...

How in the world can this happen? How in the world can citizens remain ensconced
in their houses watching American idol...when a true American, who should be idolized, is getting arrested
for nothing more than asking a few questions.

Amy Goodman, who hosts one of...

Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus paraded endangered Asian elephants through Los Angeles streets while fools born every minute watched.

People were foolish -- or perhaps naïve -- because all the Asian elephants have been exposed to -- or have had full blown mycobacterium-tuberculosis.

Several of them have fought...

Do we want our daughters pretty in pink?

This story took a week to ferment and bubble to the surface of my psyche. It is directed at women, and it's about a stupid news magazine cover that should not mean anything -- but for deeply complicated reasons it does.

The...

I wanted to write an old-fashioned letter to both of you. I wanted to put pen to paper so you could each see I have a school- teacher's handwriting. It can be clean, precise, truthful and sometimes even amusing. I am not a threat. There is no anger in me.

In 2003 when I was working as an anchor for a San Francisco television station, anchors and reporters across the country were asked by the White House to refer to the Iraqi invasion as Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF).

We were asked to call the war in Afghanistan Operation Enduring Freedom...

Lions for Lambs and a velvet censorship exposed

The movie Lions for Lambs damn near brought on the Post-Traumatic- stress that is someday inevitable for most reporters. Our eyes have to comprehend images that can never be erased and any sane person would never commit to a job that...

My next door neighbors are watching Chinese television. I self-consciously look up from time to time for a peek at them as they stare at Chinese news learning of the country they once fled. I watch with admiration and a thimble full of envy. Three generations under the same roof...

When Katie Couric was given the title of "America's Sweetheart" it was a death knell. America relishes devouring its sweethearts.

If the news magazines and newspapers are correct, Katie Couric's career at CBS, much like Dan Rather's, is toast. But the last chapters of this complex and revealing human...