The Casady Blog
How to Prevent Mass Shootings
As of mid-February 2023, the Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit organization that tracks gun violence incidents across the country, has counted 80 mass shootings in the United States so far this year including the one at Michigan State University on February...
We Need To Vote Like Our Democracy Depends On It
In 1968, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy was running in the presidential primary. Having won in Indiana, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Washington D.C., but having narrowly lost in Oregon, he was campaigning hard to win in California. On one of his campaign swings, he...
The Greed Fueling Gun Violence
In my memoir, Not Your Father’s America: An Adventure Raising Triplets in a Country Being Changed by Greed, I write about a roughly 18-year window from 1995, when our triplet sons were born, until 2013. That’s when we watched them go off to college and our house...
Fertility Medicine In The Crosshairs
Barbara and I were a happily married couple when we decided to try and have a family. We had no idea it would be difficult to get pregnant. For most of our young, single lives we feared getting pregnant. Then, when we wanted to, we couldn’t. Like so many couples, we...