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MA Farmer receives check for $0 for beef he sold

September 5, 2009 By shack

On the dairy side: According to Ziemba, it costs him and farmers like him $20 to produce 100 pounds of milk, but the market price for that 100 pounds is just over $10. By milking 175 cows, seven days per week, Ziemba produces 10,000 pounds … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: beef, dairy, farming, milk

Death of a newspaper

June 27, 2009 By shack

A link to the mlive/AANews website, customized to search on Ann Arbor: http://www.mlive.com/ann-arbor/ I don't think the reporter's speculation about the student paper, the Michigan Daily, undermining the city's paper is on target. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: media, msm, national, newspapers

Shady Sunscreen Practices Eclipse Consumer Protection

July 4, 2008 By shack

When I saw the CNN report, I sat down with the collection I have of sunscreens and logged onto the Environmental Working Group (EWG) website. EWG gives a green light to products earning 0, 1 or 2, based on an evaluation considering broad … [Read more...]

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Readiness proposals: Good luck with the regionalism thaing

June 27, 2008 By shack

More on the NYC reforms: Klein's management approach has been a bit herky-jerky. While his first years were marked by a tightly controlled, top-down management style, more recently he did an about-face toward decentralization that he … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: doe, ed-reform, education, readiness

So the candidate has a few negatives . . .

May 13, 2008 By shack

Domaingue . . . yesterday was asked to leave Town Hall property after he was seen brandishing signs accusing Kie of being a drug-dealer, a rapist and a former member of a motorcycle gang called the Warlocks. Domaingue, who called himself a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: local-elections, selectman, west-stockbridge

Calm down. Not “D’ oh! Deval” at all.

March 29, 2008 By shack

With a few rare exceptions, you know exactly how many votes you have days before the House or Senate is in session. The Gov did what he could to promote the casino idea.  He held a rally with hundreds of union guys, made speeches and … [Read more...]

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Globe Pet Peeve du Jour (with poll)

March 9, 2008 By shack

This morning I finally sent a message to the Globe pointing out that there is no way that this article is popular enough to stay in the top five most e-mailed articles for this period of time.  Leaving it in the list undermines the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-globe, media, trust, website

Advice for DSC candidates for the March 8 meeting – Bring food!

February 24, 2008 By shack

- Contact DSC members before the meeting.  I made phone calls, especially to people who had been identified as "key" members or likely to attend meetings.  Now that I have been the recipient of these calls, I would say they are … [Read more...]

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All we are saying is give paste a chance.

February 23, 2008 By shack

Yesterday, on the last weekday of the February break, I was in my classroom reading a 25-page standardized, multiple-choice test on poetry.  All 8th graders at my school will spend two hours taking this test on Tuesday.  Its … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bosley, education, mcas, schools

Teachers Good; Teachers’ Unions Bad!

January 21, 2008 By shack

Three years later, I started taking education courses and began a career as a teacher.  I don't understand all the ins and outs of education policy, but I have a lot more insight into the things the community expects teachers to do and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: charter-schools, education, public-schools, teachers, unions

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