Crack House Cops

Elsie Calloway found a drug pusher selling cocaine in her basement.  Police closed nearby crack houses, but addicts always came back, until the cops tried something different.  Patrolman James Jones now lives in the house he once raided.  Columbia,...

East Meets West

This isn’t my first rodeo.  In 1981 I put on cowboy boots to find Christine Gulich.  Didn’t need them.  She lived in a small town south of Boston.  Christine was a book keeper in Abington, Massachusetts, at the time.  The only thing that says...

Kid Billionaire

Jared Issacman became a billionaire before he could drive.  He as so young, he hired his dad to wine and dine clients.  His mom worked for him too.  Issacman used some of his money to pilot  Elon Musk’s all-civilian mission to the edge of the...

All Mine:  Death Valley

Many a man has come and gone, but Susan Sorrells stays in Death Valley, California.  Her family left her a little town called Shoshone.  She owns a small cafe and the Crowbar saloon.  And a thousand acres of the driest land on earth.  The ground is...

Turning Desert Green

 Few places in America are more remote.  We are five hours from the nearest airport.  90 miles from a pizza. 60 from a round of golf.  But people do live here because Ben Leaton had a dream.  He diverted the water of the Rio Grande river and a...