| Mayor Engen: Popular and busy
Halfway through his first term, Missoula Mayor John Engen has his political friends and foes, but even his detractors say that he's the best ambassador Missoula could have.
Photo by TOM BAUER/Missoulian
Watch a video report on Missoula Mayor John Engen. .
CapeCodToday Blog Chowder
The initiative must have failed, because today you don't see many kids in school uniforms and the issue seems to have dropped from the media radar screen. It is the nature of much so-called educational innovation to capture the imagination with or without adequate evidence to support claims. People can intuitively agree that having same sex classes might help some kids, but when you look at what studies exist to support this, there isn't much. Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 is the landmark legislation that bans sex discrimination in schools, whether it is in academics or athletics. It states: "No person in the U.S. shall, on the basis of sex be excluded from participation in, or denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal aid." This latest initiative appears to have started when the US Department of Education announced that Title IX restrictions would not apply to experiments in grouping students on the basis of sex. I can find no reason why federal law is being waived for this except that many feel that Title IX, the gender equity law, applies only to how much money schools should be spending on school sports.
NDP camp divided on toppling government
OTTAWA NDP Leader Jack Layton is playing host to the first summit of every provincial and territorial New Democratic leader today on Parliament Hill as he prepares the largest federal election campaign in party history. But Mr. Layton's gung-ho approach to toppling the Conservative government will run into some internal resistance when the senior New Democrats discuss strategy behind closed doors today. .
Woo pig
I have no tech skills but a search for Arkansas Young Professionals in the little box on the top right of this page does not lead me to an archived link of the lost post mentioned above. Which leads me to a suggestion for a button at the bottom of the main blog page... Back for older posts. Anyway browsing around the net... NYT's Paul Krugman (link at my name) held an online book salon at firedoglake this afternoon with a really good discussion and Ian Welsh wrote a uplifting post/thread afterwards.. Somewhere along thew way I stumbled across this quote by Samuel Adams: "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms.
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