September 2010

Speaking of Mr. Wilkerson –

September 19, 2010

In addition to Po’s point about Trevor Wilkerson’s vocal and irrational opposition to many aspects of the Sex Ed curriculum, Mr. Wilkerson also clearly doesn’t understand how citations work in the academic world. “Wilkerson asked why Selekman is cited as a text source, when curriculum documents don’t propose texts, and it’s the only place where [...]

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How’s That New AP Policy on Attribution Working Out?

September 19, 2010

It was interesting to read the Matt Volz’s AP report about the Montana GOP’s continued efforts to make homosexuality illegal today, three months after blogs and the Missoula Independent broke and developed the story. Given the AP’s penchant for criticizing other news agencies for lifting stories and its new attribution policy, it would seem that [...]

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Helena’s Revised Health Curriculum: Four Thoughts, One Long Post

September 18, 2010

I’ve had a lot of time to reflect on Tuesday night’s school board meeting about the proposed health curriculum in Helena. The short take: it’s the right choice for our community and our students, reflecting concessions to opponents of the original draft. It deserves the community’s support, but the community deserves a better debate than [...]

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Palin’s Idea of the People = the Party

September 18, 2010

In a curious case of Soviet-style thinking, Palin has told Lisa Murkowski of Alaska to “Respect the will of the people ” and not launch a write-in campaign for Senate after losing her primary seat. I was planning to write this as a funny post, like ‘haha Palin is talking like the Soviets”, but now [...]

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Helena’s Revised Health Curriculum: Four Thoughts, One Long Post

September 18, 2010

I’ve had a lot of time to reflect on Tuesday night’s school board meeting about the proposed health curriculum in Helena. The short take: it’s the right choice for our community and our students, reflecting concessions to opponents of the original draft. It deserves the community’s support, but the community deserves a better debate than [...]

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Three Cheers for the Office of Public Instruction

September 18, 2010

While I know it’s fashionable in some circles to always criticize government, I wanted to take a moment to commend Montana’s Office of Public Instruction and its licensure staff. Following (and during) and incredibly frustrating process dealing with a college for my renewal units, the staff at OPI was friendly, fast, and reassuring. From the [...]

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My Brother’s Keeper

September 17, 2010

Libertarians and TEA Partiers are fond of pointing out that they are not their brother’s keepers (well, except for Mark Williams, who refuses to be the keeper of any ‘brother’). I would like to point out the first person who said that – “Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I [...]

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A Farewell You Won’t Read in the Missoulian

September 16, 2010

Via the Lee Watch blog, a farewell from former Missoulian digital editor Tim Akimoff: "I believe in the process of news and the responsibility of a local newspaper to provide news to the citizens. Unfortunately, newspapers are helmed by old, decrepit captains who cannot see past their bifocals way down their noses reading about yesterday [...]

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