Saying nuts to Nutricate? The apparent success and consumer popularity of municipal laws in New York City, Seattle, Philadelphia and elsewhere that require chain restaurants to post nutritional information on their menus means that (1) more American cities’ elected officials will propose simil...

Town Councilors Jeff Plumb and Keith Hamilton look over financial data with Supt. Susan Lusi. Everybody at the Finance Committee meeting tonight seemed to want to keep the Elmhurst School open for at least another year, but the devil is in the details, some of which are beyond control of the town. T...

The media bloodbath hasn’t made for happy days at Columbia Journalism School. When the Times recently announced that its new, hyperlocal blog experiment “The Local” would be assisted by journalism students not from Columbia but from the City University of New York, you could practi...

You know I work for FanHouse. I am allowed great freedom there to get my voice out to a large audience. It's not really all that difficult of a job, but it's a hell of a lot of fun, and it's very rewarding.Since you all know I do this, I don't feel the need to pimp the hell out of it.There are excep...

Do not ever bring a library book into this house and expect to see it again. For this house is built on a doomed Indian Burial Ground in the heart of the Bermuda Triangle in the eye of a Laundry Tornado at the base of Crap Mountain.  Considering Betachild's birth certificate is probably in...

Kevin, M.D. says that The retail clinic era is over, and … pharmacy-based clinics are doomed to fail. Corporations are finding out what primary care doctors already know: it’s hard to make money only doing office visits. Ophthalmologists make bank doing procedures. I guess the problem wi...

Admonished: Pronunciation: \ad-ˈmä-nish\ Function: transitive verb 1 a: to indicate duties or obligations to b: to express warning or disapproval to especially in a gentle, earnest, or solicitous manner I was admonished on Sunday by my missus for not properly conducting a Sunday school class. We g...

The U.S. Senate had the opportunity tonight to give 1,700 low-income children in the District of Columbia the chance for a better education. Instead, voting mostly along party lines, 58 senators sided with liberal special interests to defeat an amendment saving the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Progr...

With all the action currently happening at the finance subcommittee these days, the School Committee meeting tonight was sparsely attended — just 8 in the audience — which was a shame, because people missed some rare good news in these tight financial times. The Portsmouth Middle School ...

Here we are back at Mennen Arena as the Non-Public quarterfinals finish up with Bergen Catholic looking to extend its season at the expense of Gloucester Catholic. The Crusaders will be playing the outset a little by ear, as the Rams are an unknown entity.  BC head coach Dan May said that he h...