New York City veterinarian Ashraf Hussein, Alabama humane officer Mary Stanley Mosely Mansour, California broadcaster Jerry Cesak, sanctuary founder JP Novic, and eagle advocate Sandy Steers, as well as Canadian bee expert Sheila Rafaela Colla Vet died on the job Ashraf Hussein, DVM, 56, died from carbon monoxide poisoning inside the Low Cost Vet Mobile […]
Animal & human heroes, Charlie Kirk, & the most overlooked lesson of 9/11
Remembering & revisiting national trauma The September 10, 2025 assassination of Turning Point USA founder, evangelist, and conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University for many Americans upstaged the twenty-fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Understandably so; a third of all Americans were […]
Animal & human heroes, Charlie Kirk, & the most overlooked lesson of 9/11
Remembering & revisiting national trauma The September 10, 2025 assassination of Turning Point USA founder, evangelist, and conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University for many Americans upstaged the twenty-fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Understandably so; a third of all Americans were […]
New York City transition succeeding, says longtime ASPCA critic
Early in 2014 I was interviewed by The New York Times and the New York Post about my opinion on the ASPCA transferring humane law enforcement duties to the New York City Police Department (see ASPCA cedes lead role in New York City humane law enforcement to police.) I told both reporters that “Sometimes […]


