I am sure that the legislators in Texas know that needle exchanges are much safer for drug addicts and for the public, but they’d rather act all judgmental towards addicts and the people who live near them. Sometimes I hate Texas! What is it like to live in a state that cares about the people?
Texas’ […]
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Filed under: Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Health, Opinion, Politics, Texas, addiction
Some teenagers are stupid! And some are just uninformed. They NEED to start giving us the real facts or kids will be killing themselves trying to stay healthy. I wrote about teen pregnancy and sex education previously here and here and here.
Nobody Could Have Predicted…
from Eschaton by Atrios
And on and on…
ORLANDO, Fla. — A recent […]
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Filed under: Education, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Medical News, Opinion, Politics, Young Adult Issues, children, schools, teen pregnancy, teens
The kids I know have a lot of opinions about race, but I’d say that in my HS, only about 30% of the kids care at all about politics, and most of them don’t know a lot about the issues. Most opinions are no more complicated that “Dude, that ain’t right.” or “Well he’s a […]
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Filed under: Barack Obama, Election 2008, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Opinion, Young Adult Issues, kids, news, race, racism, schools
Sometimes I think I live in an entirely backwards state that does more harm than good. Other days I read stories like these that make me proud to be a Texan:
El Paso denies feds access to road for border fence
from HoustonChronicle
EL PASO, Texas — The country’s largest border city has decided to block efforts […]
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Filed under: 4th of July, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Immigration, Opinion, Texas, border fence, freedom of speech, prison, prisons
I’ve written before about prison camps for teenagers and the abuse that happens there, but this one’s the worst I have seen described INSIDE the U.S. Nothing, NOTHING these girls did could justify this. Never!
AP: 13,000 abuse claims in juvie centers (AP)
from Yahoo! News
AP - The Columbia Training School […]
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Filed under: Child Abuse, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Moral Issues, Opinion, Politics, Young Adult Issues, children, crime, kids, news, prison, prisons, teens, violence
I write about prisons and prisoners a lot, so you might never know that it’s a really hard subject for me to write about, but it is. It’s not just numbers and statistics and information; it’s family. My mom is in prison, on drug charges, and would be much better off in a drug treatment […]
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Filed under: FrecklesCassie, Mental Illness, Moral Issues, Opinion, Politics, Secondary Featured Stories, Texas, crime, poverty, prison, prisons
YouTube - Link to: Hillary Ad using Ann Richards
Dan Solis from ThinkYouth (who is formerly one of our editors and founders) sent me this video along with this note:
If this doesn’t get you motivated to endorse Hillary on your blog, I don’t know what will.
I gotta admit, this video made me tear up a bit. Have […]
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Filed under: Election 2008, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Hillary Clinton, Opinion, Politics, Texas, Women's Rights, equality
On Blogging for Choice day, the 35th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision on abortion, I wrote a post for my other blog about anti-abortion eighth graders at a Catholic school. That post was read on the air and discussed on the Head On Radio Network, and you can hear the whole discussion […]
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Filed under: Abortion, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Moral Issues, Opinion, Politics, Religion, Women's Rights, schools, sex education, teen pregnancy, teens
When I was 8, 9 and 10 I was a bully. I hit and kicked other kids all the time. I never threatened a teacher though. But I could have.
This little boy threatened his teacher with a plastic knife or fork. And he had to go to jail. Would that happen in other “civilized” […]
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Filed under: Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Opinion, Politics, Young Adult Issues, courts, crime, jail, justice, kids, poverty, prison, race, schools, violence
Would someone please tell me why the story about Huckabee wanting to change the Constitution and start a theocracy here is NOT in regular newspapers? I am not allowed to use AlterNet or TPM or the blogs as sources for weekly “current events in politics” assignments. And if it isn’t even news for a high […]
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Filed under: Constitution, Election 2008, Featured Stories, First Amendment, FrecklesCassie, Freedom of the Press, Opinion, Politics, Religion, Republicans, freedom of speech, news, schools
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