Cathy Resmer has a great column in Seven Days this week entitled, “The Other Mother.” In it, she explains why, in her family, even though they are two women raising a son, only one will be honored on Mother’s Day.
It was really interesting to read about the effect of motherhood on her partner. Equally interesting [...]
You heard it here first (unless you already heard it somewhere else, in which case you did not here it here first).
From the BFP:
Teachers will pay 11 percent of their health care premiums next year and 12 percent the following year. They currently pay 10 percent of the premiums, and had wanted to keep payments [...]
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Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, the government has instituted a variety of programs aimed at identifying terrorist activities in the US.
For those of you who may have forgotten, the terrorists who carried out the attacks on 9/11 were in this country when they planned and executed the plot. It does [...]
Yesterday, the governor and the powers that be in the legislature came to a compromise on Catamount Health, the healthcare reform bill. I haven’t done a post on this because, frankly, I didn’t think it would ever happen.
Among the horrible ideas in this bill, the government will mandate private insurers to offer Catamount Health, if [...]
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My blog entry “Why I Hate the NEA (no, not the strike)” was included in this week’s Carnival of Homeschooling. While this is not a homeschooling blog, I was still quite flattered.
I also learned that a blog carnival is a collection of blog entries on a certain topic. It looks similar to an 802 online [...]
It looks like talks will resume tomorrow between the Chittenden East Supervisory Union and Green Mountain–NEA. I wonder what will happen. This is unlike any teacher strike I have ever seen. Usually everyone is on the side of the teachers, but I think this time they have gone too far and people know it.
Gone are [...]
I did something really stupid this morning.
Let me backtrack for a second. Lately, I have been really annoyed at the level of state oversight in homeschooling. Not because I don’t want my kids to do the required work, but because I do not like the pressure of having to document every little thing they are [...]
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I was reading in the Free Press that the other GOP US Senate candidate Greg Parke was not too happy with the “non-partisan” tone of the Tarrant kick-off extravaganza.
“I firmly believe in what President Reagan called the 11th Commandment, which is ‘Thou shalt not speak ill of fellow Republicans,’” Parke said.
Parke said the problem with [...]
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I hate political campaigning. I do not understand why the candidates can’t just be honest about their own positions and let the people decide. I do not understand why candidates have to misrepresent themselves or their opponents.
More often than not there are distinct and different philosophical ideologies and policy positions between the candidates. [...]
I was reading about Republican US Senate candidate Rich Tarrant’s campaign kick off party that took place last night and the theme captured by the press was that Tarrant doesn’t like “partisan politics.”
Well, that sounds good, right? I mean partisan politics must be a bad thing, since it is always used as a negative.
But what [...]
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