Articles by Steven Gilchrist

Cabot Bradley estate - Canton, MA. Canton, MA. - Covering 90 acres of land just south of Boston, the Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate offers visitors scenic views of plants, a farm, hiking trails, and a mansion built in the 20th century. In 1902, Dr. Arthur Tracy Cabot hired an architect named Charles Platt to design a country estate. In 1945, Dr. Cabot's niece, Eleanor Cabot Bradley acquired the property. Today, the Cabot Bradley estate is managed by the Trustees of Reservations.  

Since December 2012, the Central African Republic (CAR) has been embroiled in a civil war. In March 2013, the 5th coup in CAR's history took place. The coup, led by a mostly Muslim rebel group, displaced then President Francois Bozize.  Since 2017, Russia has played an increasingly pivotal role as a foreign partner for the CAR's government. Russia has been aligned with the President of CAR Faustin-Archange Touadera. In addition to assisting President Touadera's government, Russia's involvement with CAR serves as a potential link for expanded economic, military, and political influence in Central Africa. Russia seeks to expand its influence in other surrounding countries such as: Burundi, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and the Republic of Congo.  In early 2018, Russia donated military equipment to the Central African Republic. Russia has argued for reducing sanctions against CAR's diamond industry imposed by the United Nations. A peace agreement was ...

Later this year, from November 13 - November 19, 2022, International Fraud Awareness Week will be held. Globally, International Fraud Awareness Week is observed during the third week of November. This awareness week is a part of a global effort to reduce the amount fraud by advocating for anti-fraud awareness and education. According to Occupational Fraud 2022: A Report to the Nations, companies lose an estimated 5% of their annual revenue as a result of fraud. Fraud is an intentional act of deceiving someone to obtain an unlawful or unfair gain. Fraudulent activity can manifest in various forms including: consumer fraud, corporate fraud, healthcare fraud, identity theft, romance scams, tax fraud, and voter fraud. As technology has become more complicated and prevalent, fraud has become more difficult to detect and to track. Fraud schemes occur in every aspect of human life and schemes are becoming increasingly sophisticated. For more information about International Fraud Awareness Wee...

An October 2018 audit conducted by officials in Missouri indicated that the whereabouts of 1,259 registered sex offenders was unknown. At the time of the audit, Missouri had approximately 16,000 convicted sex offenders listed on record. In addition to the audit results from Missouri officials, the Associated Press identified other states with similar challenges pertaining to sex offender registries. The state of Wisconsin had 2,735 missing registered sex offenders. A 2017 audit in Massachusetts indicated that nearly 1,800 registered sex offenders were missing from registry records. According to a New York Times article from October 2, 2018: "Federal law requires states to register sex offenders and to notify the public when a convicted sex offender moves into a community. But despite the law's good intentions, it has been criticized for invading the privacy of those who have already been punished, then continuing to punish them. Those who remain on the sex offender registry of...

On April 11, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Title VIII of the Act is also referred to as the Fair Housing Act. The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination by direct providers of housing regarding the financing, rental, and sale of housing based on disability, family status, gender, race or color, religion, and national origin. Direct providers of housing include: banks, homeowners insurance companies, landlords, local governments, and real estate companies.  The Fair Housing Act of 1968 was an additional legislative act that followed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Fair Housing Act was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate shortly after the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Marting Luther King, Jr. In 1988, the U.S. Congress passed the Fair Housing Amendments Act which enhanced the Fair Housing Act to include prohibiting discrimination in housing based on disability or family status.  The Fair Housing Act...

In October 2020, researchers from the City University of New York's Hunter College and Harvard Medical School analyzed information gathered by the federal government regarding health insurance coverage in the United States. The researchers discovered that the number of Americans with health insurance decreased by approximately 2.3 million between 2016 - 2019. The decrease in the number of uninsured Americans led to as many as 25,180 deaths. Researchers estimate that if more Americans cannot gain access to health insurance, then the number of deaths caused by lack of health insurance coverage could triple in the United States. "Gutting the Affordable Care Act would throw another 19.9 million Americans off of insurance, and cause up to 68,345 extra deaths each year. We need to expand insurance, not shrink it. With 30 million uninsured today, we could save thousands of lives by achieving universal coverage," says Dr. Adam Gaffney a Harvard Medical School physician and lead a...

According to Mapping Police Violence.org 1,134 civilians were killed by on duty police officers in the United States in 2021.  The Washington Post  also has a database of fatal police shootings of civilians. Fatal Force, The  Washington Post database, was established by the newspaper on January 1, 2015. This database has kept track of all of the people shot and killed by law enforcement officers in the United States since 2015. Since The Post started the Fatal Force database more than 5,000 people have been shot and killed in the United States by police. Over 95% of the individuals shot and killed by police during this time frame have been male. Approximately 1/2 of the people shot and killed by police have been between the ages of 20 - 40. The states with the highest rates of fatal shootings by law enforcement are New Mexico, Alaska, and Oklahoma. The FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention both keep track of the number of fatal shootings by police; h...