School Funding Awareness Week

Back when Ohio’s system of funding education was ruled unconstitutional in the mid-1990s, I wrote about it for a local alternative weekly. There were astonishing stories about what poverty meant to education statewide — like the one about a rural school building that sat on a hillside, its foundation slowly slipping over a gas [...]

Group therapy for journalists

Journalists’ feelings are a hot topic in the blogosphere this year.
In February, Kioshi Martinez, a journalist who crossed to the communications side of the tracks, opened AngryJournalist.com. It’s basically a commenting outpost for people in the trade to rant about how much the field has changed, how little their print publications have adapted to change, [...]