by altha-admin | Jul 18, 2012 | Articles
Proposition 32 is about more than leveling the playing field of special interests in Sacramento. It's about protecting the special interest of the individual state worker, whose paycheck gets garnished without his consent and then the money gets spend on...
by altha-admin | Jul 17, 2012 | Articles
Some Missing Chapters are in Order Harry Wong's chinty little masterpiece — masterful in covering up the unseemly aspects of public education — needs another set of chapters on the ins and outs — mostly, outs — of teaching. Here is a...
by altha-admin | Jul 17, 2012 | Articles
Schools Do not Allow Teachers to Be Effective I bought into the rhetoric. I liked the idea that teaching did not have to be too difficult. Like many other teachers who had been in the profession, the teachers whom I had visited in the local schools where I had...
by altha-admin | Jul 16, 2012 | Articles
First Visit in Four Years. . .Feeling the Heat, Henry? http://www.malibutimes.com/articles/2012/07/15/news/news3.txtIn a sudden move to shore up votes along the Malibu shore, Congressman Henry Waxman paid a visit to the Malibu Democratic Club July 8.He has not...
by altha-admin | Jul 16, 2012 | Articles
Red Leviathan — Far More Dangerous Marine Biologist Eric Martin intervened to rescue a Great White Shark that a local fisherman had caught off the Manhattan Beach Pier. When the fisherman refused to cut the struggling shark loose, the biologist fetched a knife...