Miscellaneous

• Part II: Tort Reform or Pork Reform? My reply to the A.T.R.A.

  Steve Lombardi | June 18, 2009 2:03 PM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  I’m back today with Part II to Mr. McKinney and his comments concerning Tort Reform. If anyone thought I should reconsider speaking directly with the American Tort Reform Association you...

• Kayaking a swollen river takes more than just guts

  Steve Lombardi | June 18, 2009 1:58 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  KCCI reported on a drowning involving kayakers from Iowa. Brothers originally from Creston, Iowa were on a kayak trip on the Pennsylvania River in the Philadelphia area. The river attacks kayakers...

• American Tort Reform Association, Part I, building a new America with their partners including the American Chamber of Commerce

  Steve Lombardi | June 17, 2009 9:56 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  I wrote a post about the face of tort reform that the Chamber doesn’t want you to see. It was a post about pit bulls and other vicious animals mauling small children and how tort reform...

• Beer in hand, mother searches for father while leaving 3 children home alone in Iowa City

  Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | June 16, 2009 12:04 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Another disturbing news item of children being left home alone. It’s being reported that Shannon Lynette Mather, age 27, was arrested Tuesday, June 2, on drunken driving charges, driving on a...

• H1N1…..Full Blown Pandemic, Alert raised to Level 6

  Barbara Tubridy Lombardi | June 12, 2009 12:33 PM | 2 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  H1N1…..Full Blown Pandemic, Alert raised to Level 6 World Health Organization officials met with flu experts today (June 11, 2009) in Geneva to evaluate the spread of H1N1 and to raise...

• Release snake owners into the Everglades if they can’t account for their Python.

  Steve Lombardi | June 08, 2009 2:30 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  I took up the suggestion of Bob Mooney, a person who commented on yesterday’s post concerning the Burmese Snakes invading the Florida Everglades and looked up Dr. Mazzotti. Releasing exotic...

• Pedestrian Safety News Roundup Continues ... Cell phones and alcohol as a distraction

  Steve Lombardi | June 07, 2009 10:00 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Today we continue with the pedestrian-car-truck-bus-train collision news items that have been sitting around in my box for months on end. There are so many of them just since the first of the year....

• Carradine Death: Grasshopper: Nothing is softer than water; yet water can wear down the hardest rock.

  Steve Lombardi | June 06, 2009 11:33 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  In the 1970’s I watched Kung Fu and with each show was reintroduced to a quality of a good life that my mother had instilled in me. Today I am a lawyer and being a civil trial lawyer tests my...

• My Waterloo, using water to commit suicide

  Steve Lombardi | June 04, 2009 3:17 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Waterloo has always been the place of nervousness, controversy, anxiousness and the balance of life ... or death. A reportedly distraught woman went into the water near the Park Avenue Bridge...

• Last Titanic Survivor Dies, Lessons to Learn from the Marquis Cooper Tragedy

  Steve Lombardi | June 04, 2009 11:36 AM | 8 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  The seminal event for water safety has to be the sinking of the Titanic. On April 14, 1912 the HMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank taking with it 1,516 passengers and crew members. One of the 706...