Tag: current-events

  • It has been a hellish week, this vacation week that so many of us in Massachusetts looked forward to. Today we are about and around in sunny, but unseasonably cool spring weather. The grass has finally decided to green up, daffodils feel safe poking up from the damp earth. Most of our routines have returned…

  • I know that I have only one voice. But I have one, and I am determined to use it. On the four month anniversary of Sandy Hook, we are reminded that nothing has been done to prevent yet another shooting of this nature.  Listen to the family members of the victims in this tragedy. They…

  • In the past week I’ve received two unsolicited email messages “signed” by Michelle Rhee on behalf of some group called “Students First”.  You know Michelle Rhee of “Waiting for superman…”, former chancellor of the DC schools. Queen of soundbites. I’ll leave the blow-by-blow rebuttal of her craptastic plans for “improving” education (just send me $10…