ARTICLES BY RON ROIZEN CONTRIBUTOR TO NEWS-PRESS
Walking back Flint's childhood blood lead crisis
Because I took an active part in the public debate over childhood blood lead levels here in Shoshone County in the early 2000s — when the EPA proposed the expansion of the Box’s Superfund site to the entire Coeur d’Alene Basin — I had more than a passing interest in …
SHOSHONE NEWS-PRESS | UPDATED 6 YEARS AGO
1918's influenza epidemic, here: Part 2 - The forgotten scourge
Historical studies of the U.S.’s great influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 often note its relative historical unrememberedness. Even as it was occurring Americans arguably downplayed the epidemic’s harrowing cost in human suffering and deaths. More than a few reasons have been suggested. For one, the influenza epidemic’s worst weeks, in October …
SHOSHONE NEWS-PRESS | UPDATED 6 YEARS AGO
