Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
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
Posted on January 24th, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
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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Posted on December 31st, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Victoria Jaramillo, 40, holding her 3-month-old daughter, Frida, at Santa Martha Acatitla, a women’s prison in Mexico City. (Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times)
My mom is in prison and has been for more than four years. I have thought a lot about what it would be like if she had [...]
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Filed under: Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Moral Issues, Opinion, Politics, children, kids, news, poverty, prison
Posted on December 21st, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
This is a great game that helps teach vocabulary and also raises money for giving rice to hungry people. I’ll be ready for the SAT’s in no time!
Click here to play.
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Filed under: FrecklesCassie, Secondary Featured Stories, hunger, poverty
Posted on December 17th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Good for these parents and these students! I know that I have gone to all great schools, much better than a lot of them in Texas. You should be able to get a great education even if you are poor, and I hope these families win their lawsuit.
Suit seeks to stop HISD’s $805 [...]
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Filed under: Education, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Politics, Texas, poverty, protest, schools
Posted on October 14th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
I have heard a lot of liberal and progressive adults say that is is indecent and wrong to criticize 12-year-old boys. I disagree. There are a lot of reasons why you might criticize 12 year-old boys. Some of them don’t shower often enough and they have terrible table manners and their [...]
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Filed under: Chip, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, Freedom of the Press, Graeme Frost, Health, Moral Issues, Republicans, SCHIP, children, freedom of speech, health insurance, poverty
Posted on September 1st, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
It seems that George W is concerned about his legacy, and he is talking to a biographer named Robert Draper:
In book, Bush peeks ahead to his legacy
from Americas - International Herald Tribune
In an interview with a book author in the Oval Office one day last December, President George W. Bush daydreamed about the next [...]
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Filed under: Constitution, Economy, Education, Environment, FBI, Featured Stories, Food Safety, Foriegn Affairs, FrecklesCassie, Freedom of the Press, George W. Bush, Government, Guantanamo, Health, Iran, Karl Rove, Labor Issues, NSA, Opinion, Pentagon, Politics, Republicans, Scooter Libby, Terrorism, U.S. Military, War on Iraq, War on Terror, Young Adult Issues, election reform, freedom of speech, poverty, torture
Posted on August 30th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great concentrated wealth in the hands of a few. We cannot have both.”
-Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, 1856-1941
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Filed under: FrecklesCassie, Politics, Secondary Featured Stories, poverty, quotation
Posted on August 22nd, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
I just got this email. But it sounds like people in other states can call their governor too.
—Freckles
Dear Cassie,
George Bush has done it again. He has sided with insurance and drug company profits over the health and well-being of our nation’s children. Late Friday
night, the Bush administration released a letter to state health [...]
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Filed under: Activism, FrecklesCassie, George W. Bush, Government, Medical News, Opinion, Secondary Featured Stories, Young Adult Issues, poverty
Posted on August 11th, 2007 by Alex Habrock
In the last few weeks, our nation has seen several tragic events. The bridge collapse was first, the mine collapse in Utah followed, the gouge in the space shuttle was next, the stock market started to take a nose dive, and finally, to wrap things up, a radiological attack on U.S. was threatened. At [...]
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Filed under: Activism, Alex Habrock, Corruption, Economy, Featured Stories, Government, Labor Issues, Moral Issues, Opinion, Politics, Terrorism, Young Adult Issues, bridge collapse, poverty, taxes