News broke this morning that AOL's Patch will be pink-slipping workers today. We have seen at least one local Patch editor report on being let go.
This is especially rough coming on the heels of big changes at the sale of the venerable Washington Post earlier in the month. For people in the area over forty, and those who haven't yet joined FaceBook, Twitter, Reddit, or some similar social media network to pass word of local news, it's more isolating than ever.
What will you be doing if you are accustomed to reading Patch? Do you chat with neighbors periodically? And where do you meet them, at the grocery store, commuting, at church or synagogue or mosque, or elsewhere?
Do you feel as though you are in touch with what's going on in your community?
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Friday, August 16, 2013
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Could your pet be even healthier? Find out this summer
Local animal organization PGFF has announced that registration is open now for Holistic Health Care for Pets in June, in Lanham Maryland.
If you're a pet owner, you may be impressed that other people's pets have better breath than yours. Or that the coats and eyes of some dogs or cats are shiny and bright, while your pet has dull, or flaky coat, and runny eyes.
Do you wonder whether you are doing what your Veterinarian means for you to do? Are there more things you could be doing with your Vet's cooperation, that would heal an injury or illness more quickly?
Want to help tiny kittens in your neighborhood or from a rescue or shelter, but afraid you don't have the skills to know what to do?
All of these and more are topics you can learn about at the courses taught by Dr. Christina Chambreau and other professionals who teach so that you can absorb and enjoy learning the material.
If you're a pet owner, you may be impressed that other people's pets have better breath than yours. Or that the coats and eyes of some dogs or cats are shiny and bright, while your pet has dull, or flaky coat, and runny eyes.
Do you wonder whether you are doing what your Veterinarian means for you to do? Are there more things you could be doing with your Vet's cooperation, that would heal an injury or illness more quickly?
Want to help tiny kittens in your neighborhood or from a rescue or shelter, but afraid you don't have the skills to know what to do?
All of these and more are topics you can learn about at the courses taught by Dr. Christina Chambreau and other professionals who teach so that you can absorb and enjoy learning the material.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Talking about money - just how taboo and to whom?
Been away for a while -- and I can appreciate how it changes one's perspective!
Someone recently said that Maryland's legislature must not think PG county can manage its way out of a paper bag. I think, the Legislature are not the ONLY ones.
It can be hard to open your process up to "outsiders," even when they're the very voters who elect you and who pay your salary. But it's an indicator of character, I think, that you do it, whether you have to force yourself to or not.
Not talking to the State General Assembly about Board of Education budgets and business decisions, is turning out to be pretty stupid looking. So now the citizens of PG county end up having spent money we don't have, and having nothing at all to show for it, and having an awful relationship between the BoE and the GA. And this, at a time when the County desperately needs friends in the GA and at the federal level. Do citizens need to dismiss the County government and work independently with Maryland and the feds to make citizen desires known and put them into effect? It sure seems like it.
How do we rehabilitate some of these very broken relationships? Or do they no longer matter?
Someone recently said that Maryland's legislature must not think PG county can manage its way out of a paper bag. I think, the Legislature are not the ONLY ones.
It can be hard to open your process up to "outsiders," even when they're the very voters who elect you and who pay your salary. But it's an indicator of character, I think, that you do it, whether you have to force yourself to or not.
Not talking to the State General Assembly about Board of Education budgets and business decisions, is turning out to be pretty stupid looking. So now the citizens of PG county end up having spent money we don't have, and having nothing at all to show for it, and having an awful relationship between the BoE and the GA. And this, at a time when the County desperately needs friends in the GA and at the federal level. Do citizens need to dismiss the County government and work independently with Maryland and the feds to make citizen desires known and put them into effect? It sure seems like it.
How do we rehabilitate some of these very broken relationships? Or do they no longer matter?
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