Who, exactly, is in charge of Washington Teachers’ Union?
Current president George Parker’s term ended Thursday—at least as far as the union’s constitution is concerned.
Downtown Detroit, summer 2009. Photo by the author.
I got off work early yesterday, so I walked to the bus stop on Woodward Avenue in downtown Detroit, between John R and Witherell Streets.
I'm home in southeast Michigan for the summer, and one of the most flavorful of all the cultural oddities here is our proximity to Canada--Windsor and southern Ontario are just across the river from Detroit.
In the latest attempt to win hearts and minds in Afghanistan, the United States is considering using a new non-lethal weapon called the "Active Denial System." Basically, it’s a giant microwave beam that gives the skin a sensation of being on fire.
District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty might want to worry a little. The District's most arrogant politician just got edged out in a straw poll-- he's running for reelection against current City Council chair Vincent Gray.
An article in the Los Angeles Timesreported yesterday that the Los Angeles Unified School District is prepping a large cutback in funding for students with disabilities.
A big victory came last week for advocates in the intellectual disability community: a Senate committee approved a measure that removes the words "mental retardation" and "mentally retarded" from federal education, health, and labor laws. "Intellectual disability" and "individual with a mental disability" will replace the old terms.
“Venezuela’s financial support for state sponsors of terrorism is evident by Chávez’s extensive support of the Castro regime in Cuba, which is calculated to amount to $1 billion a year.”
The authors of that statement?
Across the Hudson River from the World Trade Center’s twin towers, on the Stevens Institute of Technology campus where he studied engineering, he watched plumes of smoke billow from gaping openings where the planes had just hit.
