Centers for Disease Control

Ojai has the oldest population in Ventura County: Study

Sometimes the news you would like to cover is not the news you encounter in a day at work — but it's still news. Here's just such a fact which tumbled, unannounced, from a 127-page assessment of Ventura County's overall health by its healthcare agency, in a major report released in December (2013), whose fundingContinue reading “Ojai has the oldest population in Ventura County: Study”

Mold: Toxic Menace or Life on Earth?

While I was gone, I missed a great (and long) story in the LA Weekly (here) about the mom who turned mold "toxic," creating a storm of lucrative litigation out of fear, misunderstanding, and greed. Like those who would later join the cause, including Johnny Carson sidekick Ed McMahon, [Sharon Kramer] saw a conspiracy fundedContinue reading “Mold: Toxic Menace or Life on Earth?”