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RATTLESNAKES AND DARK MONEY
By Don C. Reed A few days ago, my wife Gloria and I went to a fundraiser for Montana Senator Jon Tester. The meeting was to be held at Bob and Danielle Klein’s home, in the hills near San Francisco. As we drove along the winding tree-lined roads, three deer looked up...
FIGHTING DUCHENNE: Benefit #52 (of 71) of the California Stem Cell Research Program
By Don C. Reed Caleb Sizemore approached the speaker’s platform, to address the Board of Directors of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). Two things stood out: an astonishing smile, lit by blazing blue-green eyes — and the carefulness of his...
Benefit # 51 (of 71) of the California Stem Cell Program: COOPERATION WITH SACRAMENTO
By Don C. Reed I wish you could have been there, August 15th, 2018, at the state Capitol building, Sacramento, California. It was a Biomed Committee hearing for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), formed by the citizens’ initiative, Proposition...
THE DECISIONS OF CLAIRE McCASKILL
By Don C. Reed By the time you read this, Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill may have made the second-most important decision of her career: whether or not to support Judge Brett Kavanaugh to a lifetime position on the Supreme Court. Second-most important decision? ...
Battling Schizophrenia: Benefit #51 of the California Stem Cell Program
By Don C. Reed Imagine a calm persuasive voice, telling you to pick up a gun, put it to your head, and squeeze the trigger—you would say no, of course-- but what if that voice repeated itself, over and over, and it came from inside your mind? ...
WHY REPUBLICANS CAN’T HANDLE ALGAE BLOOM
WHY REPUBLICANS CAN’T HANDLE ALGAE BLOOM By Don C. Reed You have seen the pictures of the Florida algae crisis: dead animals on the beaches, seawater so thick with glop you could pick it up with your hands—except you would not want to, because some of it is toxic like...
THE FLORIDA SENATE RACE–AND CITIZENS WITH A DISABILITY
THE FLORIDA SENATE RACE — AND CITIZENS WITH A DISABILITY By Don C. Reed If you, or someone you love, are one of America’s forty million citizens with a disability, Florida’s Senate race matters to you. But you don’t live in Florida? Even so, it matters, big time. Ask...
Benefit #50 (of 71) of the California Stem Cell Program: FIGHTING PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY
Benefit #50 (of 71) of the California Stem Cell Program: FIGHTING PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY https://www.cirm.ca.gov/our-progress/awards/human-ipsc-modeling-and-therapeutics-degenerative-peripheral-nerve-disease Other than being spectacularly flat, my feet gave me no...
Benefit # 49 (of 71) California Stem Cell Program: On “Tuesdays with Morrie”, Battling ALS
Benefit # 49 (of 71) California Stem Cell Program: On “Tuesdays with Morrie”: BATTLING ALS By Don C. Reed “Tuesdays with Morrie”, is the true story of the last days of Morrie Schwartz, and the visits of his student, author Mitch Albom. “Tuesdays” became a huge...
Don Reed's NEW BOOK - - "CALIFORNIA CURES!"
How the California Stem Cell Research Program
is Fighting Your Incurable Disease!
By (author): Don C Reed (Americans for Cures Foundation, USA)
Thirteen years ago, America faced an epidemic of chronic disease: cancer, paralysis, blindness, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes and more. However, with the strength of patient advocates, California said YES! to a 3 billion dollar stem cell research program...