I know you're correct, Karen. I tried to report to the local newspaper about what was happening in our school district while my children were in school and after they were out of school, and I served two terms on the school board. I will put what happened on my substack soon. But right now, we must babysit for my four-year-old five days …
I know you're correct, Karen. I tried to report to the local newspaper about what was happening in our school district while my children were in school and after they were out of school, and I served two terms on the school board. I will put what happened on my substack soon. But right now, we must babysit for my four-year-old five days a week and two nights on weekends. It is unavailable even if parents can afford childcare in this community, so I need more writing time.
Also, I do not wish to miss spending time with my grandchildren at their impressionable age. Some of my grandchildren are adults, and I wish I could have spent more time with them, but they lived over five hours away.
The loss of investigative journalism and even simply the loss of local reporters has much to do with the decline of our educational and healthcare systems. Due to the lack of reporting, politicians have had a free-for-all for the past forty years. This decline in local journalism has led to a lack of transparency and accountability in our communities, allowing for unchecked political actions and a decrease in the quality of our public services. Maybe the substacks can fill in some of the gaps in reporting.
I have learned it’s more about no one respecting teachers than anything else. I documented our local newspaper’s participation in White Chalk Crime. Administrators controlled the local news, the local university , the school board. The system was one about loyalty just like what’s being put in place now in government.
I agree Substack is promising. It attracts the thinking people. I’m just learning about it and figuring it out. Today I posted the prologue of my audiobook on it. Think I did it correctly. Pretty cool what we can do and who we meet. Definitely a light in this darkness closing in on us. Enjoy your children and grandchildren. If not for them I’d be thinking much less about saving democracy. Less and less people deserve it!
I know you're correct, Karen. I tried to report to the local newspaper about what was happening in our school district while my children were in school and after they were out of school, and I served two terms on the school board. I will put what happened on my substack soon. But right now, we must babysit for my four-year-old five days a week and two nights on weekends. It is unavailable even if parents can afford childcare in this community, so I need more writing time.
Also, I do not wish to miss spending time with my grandchildren at their impressionable age. Some of my grandchildren are adults, and I wish I could have spent more time with them, but they lived over five hours away.
The loss of investigative journalism and even simply the loss of local reporters has much to do with the decline of our educational and healthcare systems. Due to the lack of reporting, politicians have had a free-for-all for the past forty years. This decline in local journalism has led to a lack of transparency and accountability in our communities, allowing for unchecked political actions and a decrease in the quality of our public services. Maybe the substacks can fill in some of the gaps in reporting.
I have learned it’s more about no one respecting teachers than anything else. I documented our local newspaper’s participation in White Chalk Crime. Administrators controlled the local news, the local university , the school board. The system was one about loyalty just like what’s being put in place now in government.
I agree Substack is promising. It attracts the thinking people. I’m just learning about it and figuring it out. Today I posted the prologue of my audiobook on it. Think I did it correctly. Pretty cool what we can do and who we meet. Definitely a light in this darkness closing in on us. Enjoy your children and grandchildren. If not for them I’d be thinking much less about saving democracy. Less and less people deserve it!