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Two former Marines take a hike on Old Baldy that was almost as Lethal as Leukemia
On an average Saturday when there wasn’t a storm threatening, hundreds of hikers using all three trails would have been climbing to the top of Baldy, Mount San Antonio’s alias, but today, we saw no one. Read more
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A few men with the power of gods and a lot less jobs for the rest of us
If you had a choice, who would you vote for to rule the world—a government guided by the Bill of Rights that was written to protect the people from their own government or billionaire oligarchs and corporations that don’t answer to the Bill of Rights? Read more
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Lyndsey Layton: Governor Christie Falters in Newark
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Lyndsey Layton wrote a compelling account in the “Washington Post” about Governor Chris Christie’s calamitous and non-productive attempt to burnish his credentials as a school reformer in Newark. Five years ago , Christie boasted that he would turn Newark into a national model of school reform. He and… Read more
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Forty-Five thousand U.S. Businesses are Built on a Foundation of Legal Seduction and Sex
Is the United States a Jekyll and Hyde culture that ignores human nature? Read more
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Pearson’s No profit left behind—Investigative reporting at its best from Politico
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: America’s transparent, non-profit, democratic public schools are being destroyed thanks, in part, to the profit motivated efforts of Pearson UK. Stephanie Simon writing for Politico reveals that in the high-stakes world of American education, UK’s Pearson makes money even when its results don’t measure up and… Read more
