There have been a couple of new developments in the story of the Portland, Maine, School Committee’s allowing a middle school health clinic to hand out birth control pills to students without parental notification. In response to public outrage over this scandal, the committee will consider allowing parents to consent to their children’s use of [...]
This week’s sign of the apocalypse comes from Portland, Maine, where the school board just voted to allow a middle school to give birth control pills to students without notifying their parents. Middle-schoolers are generally 11-13 years old. Portland’s King Middle School has an independently operated health clinic that provides services like immunizations and check-ups [...]
Conservatives were excited about the entry of Fred Thompson into the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Heck, I was excited, too. Here was a viable alternative to Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. Thompson doesn’t have a record of waffling on conservative principles as Romney does. He doesn’t have the liberal stand on social issues [...]
State Sen. Steven Baddour met with members of The Eagle-Tribune editorial board today to talk about a number of matters, mostly related to our crumbling transportation infrastructure. But we are just four days out from the primary for the 5th District congressional seat, so naturally, talk turned to politics. Baddour supports Lowell City Councilor Eileen [...]
August provides a perfect example of why one cannot look out one’s window and make pronouncements about global warming. Today and tomorrow, it’s expected to be seasonably hot and humid here. But by early next week, we’re supposed to be back into the 70s. Overall, this has been a miserably cold August in New England. [...]
Posted in Ken Johnson on Aug 15th, 2007 View Comments
Lawrence police Chief John Romero was at the Eagle-Tribune’s office Tuesday. The chief, a die-hard Yankees fan, couldn’t resist getting in a few digs at me over his team’s surge to within four games of the Red Sox. However Romero confessed he doesn’t think this year is a repeat of 1978, when the Sox blew [...]
The Drudge Report today has a link to a story titled: “The new public enemy Number One: bottled water.” Just remember that you read it here first.
Posted in Ken Johnson, Pension Tidal Wave on Aug 9th, 2007 View Comments
In response to a previous post on pensions, Shawn D. of Quincy said: Ken, While it seems that a lot of time and effort went into the pension series, you guys missed a few very important points. Key to this whole discussion should be the fact that public employees, hired after July 1994, are funding [...]
Barry Finegold, Democratic candidate for the 5th District congressional seat, supposedly has some top party operatives working on his campaign. You wouldn’t know it from his latest press release, which was inane even by the lax standards of the genre. In his statement titled “Eight Bold Steps to Move Our Country Forward” Finegold says, “I’m [...]
You may have noticed that the people who like to tell you how to live your life (read: “liberals”) are turning bottled water into the next Big Bad Thing. There is a familiar pattern here: An interest group — usually with a name starting with “The Center for …” — puts out a pseudoscientific report [...]
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