Public services | Beth Byrnes

Till death (all of) us do part

Posted on March 23, 2014 32 Comments

This is what I would consider a ‘think piece’ and it is still a thinking-in-progress, really my mind working out loud, so please indulge me as I spin this. I have the rare opportunity to be forced out of my comfortable niche and into a foreign environment, little different from the one that Margaret […]

Twelve years a laze …

Posted on March 16, 2014 9 Comments

It has been a little over a decade now that I have worked from my own home office, first part time and then about five years into it, full time. I am just discovering how luxurious that has been. On Friday, after a long week of suspense, I was selected to be on a jury […]

The litter of the law

Posted on February 15, 2014 10 Comments

This may ramble a bit as I spin out and organize my thoughts, free-association style. So, please indulge me. It is interesting how events conflow to produce a series of thoughts or actions related to a particular topic. Earlier this week I posted about Judgment at Nuremberg (on the occasion of Oscar-winning star, Maximillian Schell’s […]

A Bridge-t-oo far

Posted on January 12, 2014 15 Comments

I think the key to this whole New Jersey Bridge-gate will be Bridget Anne Kelly. Any moment now, she is going to unleash on Christie, who accused her of being stupid and mendacious. Steve Kornacki has an interesting explanation of why this is likely. It has happened to Christie before. Despite his protestations that ‘this […]

Mental case

Posted on November 11, 2013 9 Comments

I read this article about the addition of mental health care to the ACA a couple of days ago and found it encouraging: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/us/politics/rules-to-require-equal-coverage-for-mental-ills.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131108 The piece itself was informative, indicating that the Affordable Care Act mandates treating mental illness on a par with physical illness. It is about time, in my opinion, and we should […]