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- SCHIP Road Kill- My momma had a great saying when I was back and forth on an issue and trying to find some way to get the best of both possible worlds. "Alice" she would say - she never calls me Ally, "The only thing in the middle of the road is usually dead."
- Kozol in Denver-
Last night I realized one of my dreams, to see and hear Jonathan Kozol. It was a warm fall evening in the historic LoDo district of Denver. As the last light of day fell on the old brick warehouses, across from Union Station upwards of 200 people gathered at the Tattered Cover Bookstore to listen to the man who is perhaps America's best known advocate for the educational rights of children. Kozol, despite being visibly gaunt from his partial fast, did not disappoint. It was an evening to remember and hopefully a touchstone for greater awareness and activism on the part of Colorado teachers. [Crossposted at www.educatorroundtable.org and dailykos.]
- Leave Your Big Wheel at the Curb-
I didn’t have to look far for this little story; it was in my hometown paper, the Lafayette Journal and Courier, Lafayette, Indiana. On Saturday night, August 25, 2007, Wendy Barrett in the Saddlebrook subdivision heard a car speeding aroun
d the corner near her home. She looked out the window in time to see it slide to a stop onto her property. She rushed outside to see if anyone had been injured. When she opened the car door she found 24 year old Holly Schnobrich slumped in the passenger seat, while behind the wheel was Schnobrich’s 5 year old son, dressed in his pajamas. Barrett asked the barely conscious Schnobrich, “Is this toddler driving your car? Schnobrich responded, “He’s a good driver”. The driver’s 3 year old brother was ridding in the rear seat, next to two unused children’s car seats. - I Have a Real Hard Time with Sick Babies and Children-
I've received a bunch of emails asking me when I would write a diary about the SCHIP catastrophe.
Last night we had a Kos meet-up in New York City and several more people asked me about SCHIP.
I said to the New York Kossacks, "I don't know what to say--I have no words."
- TX-Sen: Bush White House Joins Cornyn In Fighting Kids' Health Care Program- Cross-posted from Texas Kaos and Blue Texas The New York Times is reporting in its editions a Bush White House attempt to "make it much more difficult for New York, California and others to extend coverage to children in middle-income families." This is the same program that Sen. John Cornyn has fought tooth and nail both as Texas Attorney General and now in the U.S. Seante. The New York Times piece elaborated further...
- Return From the Darkside, Torturing Children OK-
Many of us remember when Dick Cheney said " We have to work the dark side ..." For many of us it was a chilling moment, for others it just slipped on by unnoticed. Some people even took it to heart as Rumsfeld and Bush did.
