Saturday, February 24, 2024

Financial Advice Columnist: How I Was Scammed Out of $50K (Newser Deep Dive)

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February 24, 2024
 
 
Charlotte Cowles is the financial advice columnist for the Cut; she used to have a weekly column in the New York Times' business section. She's someone people describe as levelheaded; her best friend and her brother are lawyers. Keep reading
 
Police had a suspect, dead bodies, a confession—but what they didn't have was evidence. In a piece for Undark, Sarah Scoles dives into the case of Efren Saldivar, a California respiratory therapist whose treatment of terminally ill patients at Glendale Adventist Medical Center had raised some concerns, enough so that police brought him in for questioning in 1998. Keep reading
 
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Robin Lee Wascher was working as an air traffic controller at LAX in February 1991 when she made a simple mistake—one anyone could have made—and USAir flight 1493 collided with a commuter plane on the runway when it landed, killing all 12 people on the smaller plane and 23 people on the USAir flight. Because of the way the United States handles the aftermath of aviation tragedies, Wascher came forward as soon as she realized her error and explained what happened, knowing that information would not be used to punish her, Asterisk reports. Keep reading
 
Valentine's Day marked six years of unbearable grief for the families of the 14 students and three staff members killed in the shooting massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Peter Wang was one of the murdered students, and in a lengthy piece for the New York Times, Amy Qin looks at the different shape his parents' grief has been forced to take. Keep reading
 
From the Archives
On March 20, 2020, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered a stop to all eviction proceedings in the state. It gave many residents the breathing room they needed amid pandemic job losses. Keep reading
 
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