Thursday, July 10, 2014

7-10-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.:







Home from the NEA RA. Listening to the mountains, the veterans and the voices in my head.
Our friend Jean shared the secret of hiking up the two-mile path to Emerald Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park. And the two miles back down. We needed to get there early before the crowds. We needed to hike without hearing people’s voices. We needed to listen to the Park. That way we would also hear the voices in our own heads My head almost exploded with thoughts and ideas. I had no trouble he


Brant Rosen. Tragedy in Gaza: Reckoning with Root Causes
- Rabbi Brant Rosen is a congregational rabbi in Evanston and the co-founder/co-chair of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council. It’s happening again. As of this writing, Israel has dropped 800 tons of explosives on Gaza, a strip of land roughly the size of Detroit. The official death toll currently stands at 81, the majority of whom are civilians and half of whom are women and children. Y


7-9-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Greg Hinz. Rauner and Quinn and Stroger and Madigan.- Greg Hinz If you put together a list of Illinois politicians whom Bruce Rauner would be least likely to funnel campaign cash to, Chicago’s Stroger clan and Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan would be right at the top. The late John Stroger and