#FailureFactories April 19th, 2016 @ 12:07 pm PDT
In just eight years, Pinellas County School Board members turned five schools in the county’s black neighborhoods into some of the worst in Florida. First they abandoned integration, leaving the schools overwhelmingly poor and black. Then they broke promises of more money and resources. Every year, they turn out a staggering number of children who […]
Farm to Fable April 15th, 2016 @ 11:37 am PDT
On Convictions … April 13th, 2016 @ 7:19 am PDT
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson
Works Progress Administration April 8th, 2016 @ 7:47 am PDT
It was on this day in 1935 that Congress approved funding for President Franklin Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration, known as the WPA, a program designed to put unemployed Americans back to work. The WPA was run by Roosevelt’s right-hand man, Harry Hopkins, a former social worker and public health administrator. Hopkins was a firm believer […]
