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May 15th, 2014 - 12:56 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges

UT Austin shows that income disparity is the major obstacle to kids success in college

University of Texas ..               Are the Top 7% from low income schools as able as the 7% from high income schools? (Cross Post from The-Ave.US) This is a phenomenal article on an effort at the University of Texas to assist students from economic, as opposes to racial, minorities. M[...]

May 15th, 2014 - 11:20 am § in Misc.

EGYPT: Reconciliation

The Man Who Wants to Fix Egyptian Society Mohammed el-Mahdi is Egypt’s new minister for reconciliation. He’s fighting to create a new country, even as society fragments. It’s an uphill task in a land where the military is expanding its power and younger generations are digging th[...]

May 15th, 2014 - 4:25 am § in Misc.

Five Months to Scots Independence Day

Scotland may be just four months from a referendum to separate itself from what will then become a Lesser Britain or perhaps just plain England. A poll reported last month in The Scots man reports that the No vote has declined from 46 per cent to 42 per cent in April.  The  Yes vote has remaine[...]

May 15th, 2014 - 4:11 am § in Politics

Is Rubio Chanelling Mr. Spock?

Rubio: I am Ready To Be President, Climate Change Caused by Man, Clinton Mrs.  Gets an ‘F’ By LUCY MCCALMONT | 5/11/14 12:00 PM EDT Article Comments (0) <span class=”mceItemHidden” data-mce-bogus=”1″> &amp;amp;lt;a href=”http://ad.doubleclick.ne[...]

May 15th, 2014 - 4:01 am § in The Ave Scene

Death, slow death, of the Seattle Times

My wife and I cancelled our subscription to the Seattle Times a couple of years ago when we realized we were only buying it for the Wednesday food ads.  What little reading was left outside of the QFC and Safeway pages was rehash of news we had already read online or in our subscriptions to [&helli[...]