CNN.com today reported that presidential candidate Senator John McCain kicked off the “poverty” leg of his campaign. We’re mentioned, right along with the ninth ward of New Orleans. fabulous.
Here are the Youngstown-relevant sections of the article:
Sen. John McCain launched his week-long journey to poverty-stricken areas of the nation Monday with language that would have [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Senator McCain’s Poverty Tour
Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Read. Write. Grow.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My favorite YSU event is going on right now–the YSU English Festival. This year’s is the 30th, and while I’m not on campus today, I’m conducting workshops tomorrow and Friday. And I plan to spend much of Friday morning being a festival groupie and autograph seeker (the perks of being an insider).
Just for fun, I [...]
Spring Fling
Posted in Uncategorized on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Children’s Museum of the Valley held its Spring Fling today–not much spring (40-something degrees-brrr) but plenty of fling. There were bees, butterflies, owls, and of course, the Green Team. The butterflies were a pick-me-up. This gray can’t last forever, right?
Through the Cracks
Posted in The Comp Life, tagged comp, students, YSU on April 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Every semester, I have to have the it-isn’t-mathematically-possible-to-pass-this-course conversation with a student. And it usually happens during week ten or eleven of the semester when the student has gotten around to adding up his or her grades. Sometimes, the student has spent the past ten weeks skipping, texting, and making excuses for late work. In [...]
A Night “Out on the Town”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged activism, oakland, rosetta, theater on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What a show! What a night! We started with dinner at the Rosetta Stone (yummy Portabella Ravioli), and then we walked over the Oakland for Out on the Town. I was in the company of some amazing Ytowners–two city school teachers, an attorney (and Youngstown blogger), a social activist, her bright and funny daughters, and [...]
Come “Out on the Town”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged arts, oakland, uuyo on April 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This Saturday, a small group of friends from the UUYO church and I are heading out to the Oakland Center for the Arts to see Out on the Town, a performance to benefit Dreams of Hope, which describes itself as a “gay/straight creative and performing arts youth group.”
I’m proud to be a part of a [...]
