Dear Adults: Reading Is Still Fundamental

Dear Adults: Reading Is Still Fundamental Remember bringing home your math book for the first time? Everything was new, there were symbols and fractions and apples being added up and subtracted. It was fun. Most kids start out thinking school is awesome. Some keep that enthusiasm, but a lot of kids lose it, and for those little guys, school is a drag. But what happens to that early enthusiasm?

We're Doing "News" Wrong

We're Doing "News" Wrong Maybe it's because I'm a * card-carrying member of the TV-addled generation who can remember a time when "the news" was actually the news , but I am sick of all the crap , know what I'm sayin'? People are tripping. It's too much. * It's just an old defunct video store membership card.   In our super low budge deadest-end of Connecticut's ramshackle urban sprawl, we got the daily local , The Waterbury Republican , …