http://www.anchorrising.com/ The Right Side of Hope in Rhode Island en-us jkatz@timshelarts.com 2010-02-09T09:41:23-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.anchorrising.com/barnacles/009474.html Justin Katz On the day that the news section of the Providence Journal acknowledged that abstinence-only sex-ed programs could potentially be successful, the editors of the Lifebeat section thought it necessary to rush to the defense of their modern kulturkampf with the... 9474@http://www.anchorrising.com/ Education 2010-02-09T09:41:23-05:00 http://www.anchorrising.com/barnacles/009477.html Monique Chartier And the dimension of timing has been added to the central question, which will be discussed at the RIGOP meeting tonight. Should the party close it now, just in time for the November election? Much of the authority to determine... 9477@http://www.anchorrising.com/ Rhode Island GOP 2010-02-09T08:06:00-05:00 http://www.anchorrising.com/barnacles/009473.html Justin Katz Julia Steiny presents some thoughts on how to hire great teachers, and this point caught my eye: [Delia Stafford, CEO of the Haberman Educational Foundation] adds that an interviewee might answer a question with: "'What do they expect of me?... 9473@http://www.anchorrising.com/ Education 2010-02-09T05:05:16-05:00 http://www.anchorrising.com/barnacles/009472.html Monique Chartier Today's ProJo: Here in Rhode Island, Governor Carcieri’s administration said it is withholding the local aid payments until the General Assembly decides what to do with the governor’s midyear budget plan, which calls for third- and fourth-quarter motor-vehicle excise-tax reimbursements... 9472@http://www.anchorrising.com/ Rhode Island Politics 2010-02-08T21:06:00-05:00 http://www.anchorrising.com/barnacles/009470.html Justin Katz An interesting strategic discussion has developed in the comments to a post from last Thursday. Writes Michael: How do we regain control of our government? I don't know. Politics is a rich man's game now, and probably always was, just... 9470@http://www.anchorrising.com/ Political Thought 2010-02-08T17:40:21-05:00 http://www.anchorrising.com/barnacles/009471.html Marc Comtois In case you missed it, the medical journal The Lancet has retracted it's oft-cited study that purported to find a link between the Mumps/Measles/Rubella vaccine and autism:[T]he study by British surgeon and medical researcher Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues appeared... 9471@http://www.anchorrising.com/ Science 2010-02-08T16:00:36-05:00 http://www.anchorrising.com/barnacles/009468.html Justin Katz You may have read that North Smithfield students have been making significant gains: In a single year, the school's test scores jumped more than 20 percentage points in reading — the largest improvement in the state — and more than... 9468@http://www.anchorrising.com/ Education 2010-02-08T13:45:36-05:00 http://www.anchorrising.com/barnacles/009469.html Marc Comtois 1) Congrats to the Saints and their fans. For the rest of us, the game was entertaining and was capped off by a nice pick-6 and the Manning Face (and schadenfreude for Pats fans). 2) 3 Penalties called in the... 9469@http://www.anchorrising.com/ Sports 2010-02-08T10:30:52-05:00 http://www.anchorrising.com/barnacles/009467.html Justin Katz His specific topic is contemporary Judaism, but Ben Greenberg makes a worthwhile point related to pluralism more generally: Orthodox Judaism was supposed to founder on rugged American individualism, but quite the opposite has happened: A Judaism assembled at a buffet... 9467@http://www.anchorrising.com/ Culture 2010-02-08T09:44:55-05:00 http://www.anchorrising.com/barnacles/009466.html Community Crier The Portsmouth Institute, at the Portsmouth Abbey School, has unveiled the topic and initial itinerary for the follow-up conference to its very successful event exploring "the Catholic William F. Buckley": This year’s Portsmouth Institute conference will be held June 10-13,... 9466@http://www.anchorrising.com/ Promotions 2010-02-08T07:43:34-05:00 http://www.anchorrising.com/barnacles/009465.html Justin Katz Owing to some legislation put forward by union-friendly state Senator John Tassoni (D, Smithfield, North Smithfield), I've been poking around state law related to unemployment insurance. Tassoni's bill would remove the word "private" from the following paragraph related to the... 9465@http://www.anchorrising.com/ Economy 2010-02-08T05:37:35-05:00 http://www.anchorrising.com/barnacles/009464.html Justin Katz Prediction: This is going to turn out to be a major issue in a decade or two: Smart phones, MP3 players, laptops and other devices are the air kids breathe — perhaps too deeply, judging from a new study that... 9464@http://www.anchorrising.com/ Culture 2010-02-07T17:22:22-05:00 http://www.anchorrising.com/barnacles/009463.html Justin Katz Even the mainstream media, this time the Associated Press, is beginning to find the familiar economic narrative peculiar: "It's very unusual," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com. "At this point in the business cycle, we should be seeing... 9463@http://www.anchorrising.com/ Economy 2010-02-07T12:10:02-05:00 http://www.anchorrising.com/barnacles/009462.html Monique Chartier Courtesy the Miami Herald. ... Miami has been hosting Super Bowls for more than 150 years, and in all that time no harm has ever come to a visitor who didn't do something stupid such as venture outside the hotel.... 9462@http://www.anchorrising.com/ On a Lighter Note... 2010-02-07T10:29:00-05:00 http://www.anchorrising.com/barnacles/009461.html Justin Katz Do you think there comes a point at which people simply stop listening to measurements? As the latest national unemployment numbers rolled out, one certainly got the impression that the news was positive, that recovery is just around the corner.... 9461@http://www.anchorrising.com/ Economy 2010-02-07T08:11:25-05:00