Jon Ortiz’s beatblog, The State Worker, and his users helped force Gov. Schwarzenegger’s hand in making a furlough policy change. State workers in California have to take two furlough days each month as part of an effort to save money. The governor’s office occilated between two d...

How does James Franco manage to take classes at both NYU and Columbia while penning a book while keeping his acting career going? Evidently only with lots of naps. Some enterprising young student took a picture of the Milk star and writing scholar dozing during at lecture at Columbia and sent it to ...

It’s Monday night, and I’ve been watching BBC4’s documentary on the Miners’ Strike, which started a quarter century ago, focusing on a small group of Hatfield strikers. It is a well made piece, and a powerful experience. Most striking are the men, the strikers – Dave Douglass, Dave Nixon, ...

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Former Euro-communist Martin Jacques, with an article in The Guardian,  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/06/miners-strike-1984-85-margaretthatcher , has joined a long line of media commentators who have used the 25th anniversary of the start of the 1984 miners strike to pour excreta...

Last year at the Oxygen AGM we launched the plan of going deeper with the young people we work with. We want our relationships with young people to take us and them on a journey of discovering and following Jesus. What was important in this journey was the partnership with local churches. Seeking to...

Not so sweet, not so surprising Scientists at Yale have found the “missing link” between high fructose corn syrup and type II diabetes.  Also, the average American gulps down 60 lbs of the stuff every year. Private inspections a weak defense The NY Times tell the story of a private insp...

Thousands of foreign workers, including London School of Economics graduates with six-digit salaries and desperately poor Bangladeshi factory workers, are streaming home as the economy in Singapore suffers the worst of the recessions in Southeast Asia, reports the Washington Post. Singapore is an ep...

Vulnerable children must not be put at risk by junior social workers Ed Balls has said....

Larissa talks Sex Workers Day, Sex Education in Texas, Obama rescinding conscience regulation, Twitter and Teen Sex, and  how she learned everything from Saved By The Bell. Show notes: KoldCast http://www.koldcast.tv/ -Episode 24: Condoms will be premiering Wednesday. -New MTIP is already up. Don&#...