Horace Mann once wrote: "Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it." For two decades, author Anita Wills made a habit of researching her family history, and it paid off. She uncovered and was able to prove the lineage to […]
Stimulus Bucks for Slumlords?
New York City slumlords are getting stimulus money [1], reports the Daily News. According to the paper, millions of stimulus dollars have gone to landlords whose properties have serious housing code violations, from broken elevators to cockroaches to flaking lead paint. The stimulus money is not contingent on making needed repairs. City Councilman Bill de […]
Summer Hours Movie Is A Summer Bore
I recently saw the new French movie Summer Hours (French title, L’heure d’été) at my local arthouse cinema http://www.cinemaartscentre.org/009/09May/CAC-SummerHours.htm. Directed by Olivier Assayas, it begins with the grown children of an elderly woman gathering with their families at the family home outside Paris. She has devoted herself to the memory, works and possessions of a deceased […]
Human Trafficking: ‘Modern-Day Slavery’
By Kirk Maltais Capital News Service RICHMOND – A man in Falls Church kept as many as 24 Indonesian women locked in his basement over the course of eight years, using them as slave labor to run a housekeeping business for affluent clients. A Maryland man pleaded guilty to coercing two juveniles into prostitution, hauling […]
Morgan Stanley Cuts Bonuses, Boosts Pay
Back when Congress passed executive pay limits on companies receiving TARP money, experts warned [1] that the restrictions could have the perverse effect of boosting executive salaries. Since Wall Street execs get their millions through bonuses, the limits focused on the size and nature of bonuses that they could pocket, but put no cap on […]
Disappearing Behind Them: Phasing Out Failing Small Schools
Audio reporting edited and published by KALW (coming soon). Also published at The San Francisco Bay View. By Jennifer Inez Ward On a crisp spring California afternoon, long after the echo of the last final bell, 40 parents, students and teachers gathered in a too-warm classroom at Paul Robeson School of Visual […]
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