From Fox 2: About a dozen at-risk and disadvantaged youth graduated Saturday from a construction skills training program, giving them another chance to build a better future for themselves. Ranken Technical College’s auditorium was filled with joy, cheers, and applause as students received their high school certifications and industry-recognized construction credentials from the YouthBuild Program. […]
We’re just days into summer and high temperatures Saturday made it one of the hottest days of the year thus far. Despite the dangerous heat, there are ways to stay cool.
I caught up with Bob Somerby today and it turns out he's been lamenting a spate of recent articles about the "Mississippi Miracle." I don't blame him. Reports of educational breakthroughs are often overblown and should be taken with several grains of salt. Still, let's take a look at this one. Mississippi passed a package ...continue reading "How miraculous is Mississippi?"
About five minutes after I wrote that Wagner mercenaries were advancing on Moscow at "light speed," they suddenly . . . stopped. Yevgeny Prigozhin announced that he had accepted a personal deal to exile himself to Belarus while his troops would be pardoned and put under the control of the Ministry of Defense. It's all ...continue reading "Wagner Group throws in the towel"
According to the ALS Association, ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects the brain and spinal cord. Every hour a person is diagnosed.
Five Years Ago This week in 2018, Ajit Pai was trying to pretend that everybody supported repealing net neutrality, while ISP lobbyists were trying and then succeeding at derailing California’s own net neutrality law. Pai was also pushing for rule changes that would benefit Sinclair Broadcasting, while being under investigation for his relationship with the […]
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