Charity on December 15th, 2006

Just a quick reminder for those in the Greater Burlington Area: She’s Right is on tonight, live @ 5:25 pm on Channel 17 (CCTV) on Comcast and Burlington Telecom.
For those outside the viewing area, the podcast will be available next week.
Update: Tonight I will be talking about Feminists for Life – a pro-life feminist organization.
While [...]

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Charity on December 15th, 2006

From this morning’s Free Press:

The Giving Season needs donationsPublished: Friday, December 15, 2006 Free Press Staff Report
About midway through The Giving Season, The Burlington Free Press’ [...]

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Charity on December 14th, 2006

Last summer, I blogged about Abraham Cherrix. A 16-year-old Virginian boy with Hodgkin’s disease, who was being forced by a court at the request of a social services agency to undergo chemotherapy against the will of him and his parents. You can find those posts here.
Another judge overruled the decision and Cherrix was [...]

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Charity on December 14th, 2006

I’m going to throw another local story in here because I think it is relevant everywhere.
This week’s Seven Days (local alternative weekly) has a story called: “Deconstructing Dovetail: Is a Burlington school program helping, or hurting, socio-economic integration?“
Dovetail is an elementary school program at one of the city’s five elementary schools, which integrates K-2, with [...]

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Charity on December 13th, 2006

Updated.
I know, I know. We just had elections, but it is time to start thinking about Town Meeting Day already.
Here in Burlington, we have a city councilor and a school commissioner up for election in each ward. There will also be a school budget to vote on and countless ballot items to be [...]

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Charity on December 12th, 2006

For those of you with the Sundance Channel (which unfortunately does not include me), you should most definitely check out this series they are doing on Jay Bakker, called One Punk Under God.
I am so bummed that I will not get to see it. His book, Son of a Preacher Man was one of [...]

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Charity on December 12th, 2006

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Libertarian Party.
For your viewing pleasure, here is a You Tube of the History of the Libertarian Party.
An interesting, albeit cheesy, piece. And my first You Tube embedment on She’s Right. Yea me!Note: Please let me know if there is a problem with the You Tube thing [...]

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Charity on December 12th, 2006

Happy Monday, readers! Or at least, happy that Monday is over, anyway.
I just wanted to post a reminder that “She’s Right” is on Channel 17 (CCTV) in the Greater Burlington Area on cable this Friday, December 15, live @5:25 PM.
Be sure to tune in!

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Charity on December 9th, 2006

This time of year is crazy for parents, especially a parent that is at home with her kids all day. As anyone with kids can tell you, they are typically very wound up this time of year.
I have not had much time to blog lately, but I will post as often as I can.
I [...]

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Charity on December 6th, 2006

The big news today: The Iraq Study Group report.
For those of you working types, here is the transcript of the press conference that aired this morning on TV.
You can view the PDF of the actual report by going to this site, the United States Institute of Peace.
Here is a Reuters sampling of reaction to the [...]

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