Tag: report
Last Night’s Sound Bite!
If you weren’t listening closely to last night’s news stories you might have missed the sound bite that for the first time in history more than 1 in every 100 Americans is incarcerated in a prison or jail. This makes America the most incarcerated country in the entire world! Amongst all of the whoopla over […]
Posted: February 29th, 2008 under General.
Tags: higher education, incarceration, inmates, jail, news, pew center on the states, report, spending
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NC Troopers – 5 citations/minute
That’s right; according to the report in today’s Asheville Citizen Times, during the week of Thanksgiving North Carolina troopers wrote an average of more than 5 citations every minute for the entire week. The actual number is 51,185! And BTW, 24,274 were for speeding! If you figure the average cost of a traffic citation is […]
Posted: November 27th, 2007 under General.
Tags: north carolina, report, traffic
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Sesame Street – Adults Only?
Yesterday the New York Times reported that Sesame Street has become Adults Only fare. Yup, good old Sesame Street has become a purveyor of the dark side. Clearly this is what happened to my kids. They were for damaged by the cookie monster in early Sesame Street episodes and it is vitally important that we […]
Posted: November 19th, 2007 under General.
Tags: adult only, new york times, news, nyt, report, sesame street, warning-labels
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