Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Worcester's very own Why Me and Sherry's House is an extraordinary charitable organization that embraces the power of love and uses it to help families dealing with unimaginable heartache.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
The defining characteristic of a bully is that he (or she) picks on people who don’t stand up to him. Whether it’s our invasion of Iraq, détente with North Korea, verbal barbs with Venezuela, or any number of recent diplomatic incidents, one thing is clear, we’re consistent with our rhetoric and actions when the offending party can’t hit back. What also defines a bully is that when you finally stand up to him he usually doesn’t hit back.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
As wedding étiquette becomes more complicated, wedding invitation dilemmas are on the rise along with too many menu choices this upcoming wedding season. Can my daughter be a pallbearer? And what does the dress code Low Heel Shoes mean? All questions to Didi at NewportManners.com this week.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Forget those TV ads where parents gleefully anticipate “alone time” as they wave goodbye to their college-bound children. For most parents of emerging adults, back-to-school time means missing their best friends.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
When my sons and I visited Columbia University, the presenter first warmly welcomed the freshman wannabees, and then she got brutally blunt with us. Back when we, the parents, had applied to college, say 25 years earlier, about 3,600 students applied for Columbia's 1,000 seats. These days, more like 36,000 applicants vie for those same 1,000 seats.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Staples Foundation, the private charitable arm of Staples, Inc., has awarded $3,500 to Dress for Success Worcester under a program that lets Staples associates direct donations.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
In the world of government handouts, there’s good pork and bad pork. For several Central Massachusetts small and micro businesses, the state-funded help they’ve gotten from a quasi-public corporation may be the good sort of sowbelly–especially, given Big Banking’s continued reluctance to lend to the backbone of America’s economy.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Attorney General Eric Holder last week instituted a major policy change exempting some low-level drug offenders with no ties to gangs or cartels and without substantial criminal records from what the Attorney General rightly called, “draconian mandatory minimum sentences.” Federal Judges will now have the discretion to sentence these offenders more appropriately and make wider use of diversion programs that emphasize treatment and community service—programs with a proven track record of reducing recidivism.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development today reported that, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the seasonally unadjusted unemployment rates for July for the Worcester County area was 8.2 % and 9.3 % within the city of Worcester.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Dear John, I am the father of a thirteen-year-old boy. He recently went on an outing with a friend of his and the friend’s dad. Somehow, it became apparent that I have yet to talk to my son about sex. (There are good reasons for that, but I don’t think they are even relevant to this letter.) So this father took it upon himself to do it for me – then he had the nerve to call me afterwards, explain what he did, and rebuke me for not having done so yet myself! His attitude was more condescending than anything, like he had to explain to me how important it is that boys our sons’ age know about birth control, and he didn’t seem to see the least thing wrong with what he did.
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