Unwed Fathers

Manny Cardona seeks out teenage fathers and leads them back to the families they created.  He gets their girlfriends medical attention.  Guides them off welfare.  And tries to keep them in school.   Cardona was once like them, an unwed teen father,...

Anti-smoking Tobacco Heir

In the 1980’s Americans started smoking fewer cigarettes for the first time since 1913, that’s when R.J. Reynolds took a picture of a circus camel and stuck it on the side of a pack.  Six years later, nearly half of the people in America who smoked cigarettes,...

Scoop City

Focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.   That’s the key to a long and happy career.  I learned that lesson in a small city, half way between St. Louis and Kansas City, where stories  seldom go untold.   Share...

Everglades Changing

Out here, the alligators look like they’re sighting down a gun barrel.  Survival goes to the swift.  But even the fastest cannot run from the pollution that seeps from sugarcane fields.  In south Florida over the years, the Federal Government drained...

Final Choice

Before hi-tech medicine, death was a member of the family, something families nearly always chose to have happen at home.  Today, 8 out of 10 Americans die in hospitals, surrounded by strangers.  Often alone in webs of wires and tubes.  Hospice care...

Animal Beauty Aids for People

Animal grooming products have become some of the hottest beauty aids for people.  A lot of folks who’d never been inside a feed store began using them.  90 % use horse products for themselves.  That pushed sales for “Main and Tail” from $500,000 to $30...