Reserve and National Guard members deserve a better retirement plan, one that pays an annuity earlier than age 60 at least for those willing to serve longer than 20 years, Reserve leaders have told Congress.
Good morning and happy Fourth of July weekend. I hope everybody has their flags up, their strawberry shortcake ready and something red, white and blue to wear. If you are reading this early on Sunday, you might want to travel out to Turner for the afternoon and evening and start your celebration early. The town is celebrating its 225th birthday and there will be fireworks at 9:30 p.m. in Turner Center. There will also be sales at small stands and nurseries. Isn't there always room for one more bright and cheery pot somewhere? I thought we might talk about poppies today because they are beautiful right now and so many of you don't have them. I drive the highways and byways of central Maine and, as you might guess, take note of people's flower choices. I seldom see poppies and have often ...
The Maine Association of Nonprofits is feeling steamed after being informed by the governor's office that it's entitled only to alternate seating at Gov. Paul LePage's upcoming job creation summits. The first priority for seating, the association was told, is for businesses. So it went public with this response, calling it - essentially - an insult to the state's nonprofits, which employ about one in seven of Maine's work force, or approximately 82,000 people.
Every year, America spends more than $500 billion on elementary and secondary education, much of that on our teachers. We do this because we know that such expenditures are essential. And yet most of us know amazingly little about teachers as a group or as individuals. For example, there are 3.6 million teachers in our 133,000 schools and 14,000 school districts. Did you know that 70 percent are female, the median age is 46, and 60 percent earned a master's degree or higher? Or that two-thirds have more than 10 years in the classroom and they teach on average 87 students per day? Or that more than 80 percent of public school teachers are white, with African-Americans and Hispanics each accounting for about 7 percent of the teaching force?
The recent "Public Choice Option" and the "Race to the Top" legislation are forcing the type of transformation that is long overdue. The Public Choice Option served notice upon educational institutions, including the teachers union, district administrators, teachers, parents and principals that "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" is insanity. Race to the Top legislation puts teeth to accountability in a system that has avoided accountability for the failure of generation after generation of black and brown children. But legislation without the will of the people to cany out the transformative policies education so desperately needs will doom us to Albert Einstein's definition of insanity. Culturally Relevant Curriculum is closely tied to Teacher Ef...
ASP releases TV ad to encourage debate and political action around smart defense spending on nuclear weapons WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the American Security Project (ASP) released a new, televised advertisement entitled, "Our Troops Deserve Better." The TV ad aims to promote the debate around responsible, smart, and effective defense spending while calling on elected leaders to not support proposed funding for a Cold War era nuclear strategy.
THE OLD saw about families and the military has versions for every branch. For sailors, it goes something like this: If the Navy wanted you to have a family, it would have put one in your sea bag. If that were ever true, it certainly isn't now, not in an all- volunteer U.S. military that depends on family men and women to fill its ranks. But with that commitment - sailors to the Navy, the Navy to its sailors - comes obligations that extend beyond the war- fighter.
America likes its prisons. More than 60,000 youths are confined in secure corrections facilities each year by juvenile courts. Furthermore, the United States incarcerates more youths than any other developed nation. Locking kids up is an American ideal not practiced by other countries to the extent it is here. According to a new report called "No Place for Kids," by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, while there are less-restrictive group homes, wilderness programs and boot camps where adjudicated youth can "serve time" for offenses, 40 percent of delinquent teens are confined to secure detention centers that mirror prisons with features such as barbed wire and locked cells.
In "Eating Animals," wunderkind Brooklyn, N.Y., author Jonathan Safran Foer has produced a part-time memoir that evolves into an argument against factory farming and the myriad social ills the practice has begotten in recent decades. It is an ambitious project, three years in the writing, but not one that the gifted prose stylist is up to, unfortunately. The memoir material is interesting as far as it goes, but the arguments against carnivorism presented here are fairly warmed-over and familiar not only to anyone who has ever seriously considered adopting vegetarianism (or veganism), but to any graduate of a four- year liberal arts college.
Incy, wincy spider went up the water spout. Down came the rain and washed the spider out.
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