Brief Links for January 8, 2015

An article and a video on gaining greater control of your life 

 

Resolving to Create a New You (Sunday Review, New York Times, Jan. 4), http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/opinion/sunday/resolving-to-create-a-new-you.html


 

 

Ruth Chang: How to make hard choices
Ruth Chang: How to make hard choices

 

 

Other Brief Links

 

Investing in school readiness can lift families out of poverty, (Guest Commentary, Father John Baumann, Tri-Valley News, January 4), http://www.contracostatimes.com/opinion/ci_27230914/guest-commentary-investing-school-readiness-can-lift-families

   

Racial Bias, Even When We Have Good Intentions, (Business section, New York Times, Jan. 4), http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/upshot/the-measuring-sticks-of-racial-bias-.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A17%22%2C%221%22%3A%22RI%3A6%22%7D&abt=0002&abg=1

 

 
 

Kaiser Permanente's mental health workers to start weeklong, statewide strike Jan. 12 (Associated Press, Jan. 2), http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2015/01/02/kaiser-permanente-mental-health-workers-to-start-weeklong-statewide-strike-jan/

   

Kaiser strike: Mental health workers to walk out Jan. 12, (Contra Costa Times), http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_27237137/kaiser-strike-mental-health-workers-walk-out-jan

   

Questioning our Questions, (opinion piece by E.J. Dionne Jr, Mercury News http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_27235549/e-j-dionne-jr-questioning-our-questions

   

  
When Prisoners Are Patients (Sunday Review, New York Times, Jan. 4), http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/03/when-prisoners-are-patients/
 
Is Life Better in America's Red States? (Sunday Review, New York Times, Jan. 4), http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/opinion/sunday/is-life-better-in-americas-red-states.html 

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