Diane M. Grassi column
Diane M. Grassi is an investigative journalist and reporter providing topical and in-depth articles and analysis on U.S. public policy and governmental affairs, including key federal and state legislation as well as court decisions relative to the public interests of average Americans.
Ms. Grassi sticks to the facts on myriad issues, often given short shrift by the mainstream press and broadcast media. With a passion for holding U.S. lawmakers and government officials accountable for their legislative and policy decisions, Ms. Grassi has an undying resolve to awaken others to these facts in order to promote an educated electorate.
Diane M. Grassi may contacted at: dgrassi@cox.net
Ms. Grassi sticks to the facts on myriad issues, often given short shrift by the mainstream press and broadcast media. With a passion for holding U.S. lawmakers and government officials accountable for their legislative and policy decisions, Ms. Grassi has an undying resolve to awaken others to these facts in order to promote an educated electorate.
Diane M. Grassi may contacted at: dgrassi@cox.net
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March 24, 2015
It remains curious in 2015, that after years of outcry to end the exploitation of the college athlete, which we all know is really exclusive to the National . . .
Diane M. Grassi
October 11, 2014
It was once held that there was a universal and collective goal to advance American ideals and values, for the best interests of our communities and fellow . . .
Diane M. Grassi
December 24, 2013
The term "redistribution of wealth" has become a well-known and familiar phrase bandied about amongst political elite and used as a wedge issue to conveniently . . .
Diane M. Grassi
January 21, 2013
It has now been well documented throughout both the sports world and the business world, that the National Football League (NFL) has enjoyed unprecedented . . .
Diane M. Grassi
June 28, 2012
"There can be no question our country is in the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes...It falls on us, the individuals, to find a way out of our own personal . . .
Diane M. Grassi
March 23, 2012
When we think of Miami, Florida, it immediately brings to mind sunshine. Yet, even sun seekers might be surprised that it has taken federal Securities and . . .
Diane M. Grassi
September 27, 2010
Curt Montague Schilling, has never been one to duck controversy nor a good game of old-fashioned hard ball.
In fact, in the latter part of his Major League . . .
Diane M. Grassi
August 16, 2010
When it comes to gambling there has never been a shortage of opinion amongst the masses. Either people favor it or they feel strongly that it accompanies some . . .
Diane M. Grassi
March 13, 2010
With the melt down of the global economy over the past 2 years, multi-national brokerage firms and trusted financial institutions bore the brunt of accusations . . .
Diane M. Grassi
February 18, 2010
In 2006, this reporter shed light on the seemingly unfair labor practices taking place in the Central American country of Costa Rica, in a factory operated by . . .
Diane M. Grassi
August 30, 2009
"This is just one sliver of it, one aspect of it," President Barack Obama quipped, upon word on August 16, 2009, that his administration is supposedly . . .
Diane M. Grassi
June 19, 2009
It was on June 21, 1788, that the United States Constitution was officially adopted with its ratification. And it was at that time that its ratification was . . .
Diane M. Grassi
December 1, 2008
"At a time when these young people are defending our country and its free institutions, the least we at home can do is to make sure that they are able to enjoy . . .
Diane M. Grassi
June 24, 2008
In this third chapter of this ongoing discussion and analysis of United States energy policy and its ramifications both realized directly and indirectly from . . .
Diane M. Grassi
April 16, 2008
"I'm safer, somewhat, in Iraq than my son is on the streets of the United States. ...My country let me down."
— Sgt. Anita Shaw, United States Army
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Diane M. Grassi
March 23, 2008
As discussed in Fallout from the Energy Policy Act of 2005 Part I of a Series, the United States federal government is taking a more and more integral role in . . .
Diane M. Grassi
February 23, 2008
"Energy independence from foreign sources." A mantra repeated over and over again by Al Gore, by the Hollywood elite and by candidates running for the 2008 . . .
Diane M. Grassi
February 12, 2008
Major League Baseball (MLB) and drugs. The two have been linked for decades and their relationship has never waned. The drug ingredients are different, the . . .
Diane M. Grassi
July 3, 2007
The announcement on May 21, 2007, that the largest public company in the Middle East, by market value, would be acquiring a division of the world's second . . .
Diane M. Grassi
May 4, 2007
On March 25, 2005, U.S. President George W. Bush, former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, and former Mexican President Vicente Fox authorized the Security . . .
Diane M. Grassi
February 15, 2007
Major League Baseball (MLB) will celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Jackie Robinson's entry into the major leagues, on April 15, 2007, which ended the . . .
Diane M. Grassi
January 23, 2007
The tragic explosion of the Sago Mine in West Virginia on January 2, 2006, which took twelve lives and permanently disabled another, still begs for a rational . . .
Diane M. Grassi
December 13, 2006
The ravages of war are hell and collateral damage that includes loss of life, permanent disability and war-related illness in both military and civilian . . .
Diane M. Grassi
November 15, 2006
For several years now, American healthcare consumers, including many from other western industrialized nations, have heard about elective surgeries being . . .
Diane M. Grassi
October 18, 2006
This past July, former President Bill Clinton announced an initiative in conjunction with the William J. Clinton Foundation to fight childhood obesity. In that . . .
Diane M. Grassi
September 27, 2006
Assistive Reproduction Technology (ART) has been an accepted medical alternative to human reproduction since the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, was . . .
Diane M. Grassi
September 7, 2006
"Prediction is very hard, especially when it's about the future." — Yogi Berra
Given the focus on the recent one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina by . . .
Diane M. Grassi
August 22, 2006
"I'm surprised at the number of elite athletes from around the world who are in the NBA as of 2006." National Basketball Association (NBA) Commissioner David . . .
Diane M. Grassi
August 8, 2006
For the past 70 years, federal laws have played a vital and necessary role in the operation, production, distribution and protection of the electrical power . . .
Diane M. Grassi
July 25, 2006
America's National Pastime has continued to rake in record high revenues in the past few years, yet it continues to remain deaf to its critics concerning the . . .
Diane M. Grassi
July 19, 2006
Nearly an entire year since Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast, leaving behind extensive damage to several states and the city of New Orleans, . . .
Diane M. Grassi
July 12, 2006
For the last quarter of 2006 United States Army bases stateside face a funding deficit of $530 million while troops active in Iraq and Afghanistan will not see . . .
Diane M. Grassi
July 5, 2006
Since the United States became a party to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, U.S. construct of the Foreign Trade Agreement (FTA) has . . .
Diane M. Grassi
June 29, 2006
50 years ago President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the 1956 National Federal-Aid Highway Act and since 1990 referred to as the Dwight D. Eisenhower . . .
