You couldn’t pay me enough to return to high school and relive the nightmare of being a teenager again. This week the state of Massachusetts is working on enacting a new law prohibiting bullying and harassment at the state’s schools. It is one of the last states in the union that has yet to pass […]

I’m starting my fourth week of peritoneal dialysis at home and I thank all the people who have wished me good luck on my new venture. And a number have asked me to explain how it works. Of course, I’m not in any way an expert and I’m relying on the PD patient directory for […]

The Cincinnati 17-year-old was vacationing in Florida with about 40 classmates and a half-dozen parents.

As long as evaluations are few and far between, we’ll never know what happens behind that closed classroom portal.

Community Development Block Grants were intended to be for, well, community development.

Announcing 15 recess appointments last weekend, President Barack Obama made a good start toward filling hundreds of vacancies in his administration. As other presidents have done before him, he sidestepped political foot-dragging in the U.S. Senate by making the appointments during a congressional break. George W. Bush made 171 recess appointments during his presidency and […]

After censoring its search results in China for four years, Google has taken a stand against repression. The company’s decision to stop censoring search results is an essential step toward the goal of worldwide intellectual freedom. And it affirms Google’s basic business goal of making information accessible. Unfortunately, the company’s refusal to accommodate government censorship […]

It should come as no surprise to Ogunquit residents that the Legislature has been unmoved by complaints of unfairness in educational funding. The Town of Ogunquit made a strong case that it pays a heavy share of the costs of the Wells-Ogunquit School District. Yet it failed to persuade legislators that it should have the […]

For most of us, the benefits of health care reform are years away, but for those in dire circumstances, help is due sooner. Within 90 days, a high-risk insurance pool must be established for people who can’t get health insurance because of health problems. The details remain to be worked out, but the goal is […]

“It’s not far I can walk down the block to Table Talk. Close my eyes, make the pies all day. Plastic cap on my hair. I used to mind, now I don’t care. I used to mind, now I don’t care ’cause I’m gray. Did I show you this picture of my nephew taken at […]