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Category Archives: Censorship
2023 Campaigns and Beyond – Quaker Valley School Board
Your Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while all the Company is true. – Galadriel, from The Fellowship of the Ring by … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Community, Economics, Education, Government, History, Local, Media, Personal, Politics, Public Safety, Schools, Security, Youth
Tagged Bud Smith, Edgeworth Borough, Gianni Floro, Jessica Webster, John English, Leet Township, Leetsdale Borough, Melissa Walls, Muottas, Quaker Valley GOP, Quaker Valley High School, Quaker Valley School Board, Quaker Valley School District, Sewickley Valley Historical Society, Thomas Tull, William Jasper
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Political Weather Alert
The National Windbag Service has issued a Flash Mud Warning for the greater Quaker Valley area, including Leet Township and surrounding locales. Spotters report that increased mudslinging from certain candidates for office has extended unchallenged into the local online/print media … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Community, Education, Government, History, Humor, Local, Media, Politics, Schools
Tagged Bud Smith, Carolyn Verszyla, Gianni Floro, Jessica Webster, John English, Leet Township, Martin McDaniel, Michael Molinaro, Missy Walls, Quaker Valley School Board, Quaker Valley School District, QV Strong, QV Taxpayers for Strong Schools, QVGOP, William Jasper
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Summer Shorts: School Board Double Down, Jasper’s Jabber and Jaunt
This month I’m posting some brief (for me) pieces on subjects that beg mention due to their timeliness and/or significance. Many of these topics have been fleshed out already – others don’t really need as much analysis to get a … Continue reading
In Praise of Libraries – New Pathways vs. Old Attitudes
If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time, you know that my family is rather enamored of our local library. The Sewickley Public Library is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year – my wife has held a library … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Community, Family, Government, History, Justice, Local, Media, Personal, Pittsburgh, Politics, Schools, Youth
Tagged American Library Association, Andrew Carnegie, Banned Books, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Carolyn Toth, Jessica Whipple, Judy Blume, Kathleen Madonna-Emmerling, Leetsdale Borough, Moms for Liberty, Moon Township, Moon Township Public Library, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Quaker Valley School Board, Quaker Valley School District, Sewickley Public Library
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Book Bans, and Other Boogeymen
As a teenager, my interest in reading ran the gamut of the literature of the time period. I was already a voracious newspaper and magazine reader – I had a student subscription to Newsweek (courtesy of my 8th grade social … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Government, History, Human Rights, Local, Media, Personal, Politics, Schools, Youth
Tagged American Library Association, Banned Books, Conservative, Critical Race Theory, First Amendment, LGBTQIA+, Quaker Valley School District, Racism, Republican Party, Sewickley Public Library
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Quaker Valley School Board Election – The Long and Short of it
Happy Halloween, indeed. Scary… Leslie and I attended, in person, the October 19 meeting of the Quaker Valley School Board. The total number of audience members present in the middle school auditorium amounted to three. There were numerous online attendees … Continue reading
Posted in Censorship, Civil Liberties, Community, Government, History, Local, Politics, Schools
Tagged Banned Books, Brett Williams, Citizens for a Great School, Daniela Sauro Helkowski, Doug Jones, Elections, First Amendment, Heather Saftner, Jonathan Kuzma, Kati Doebler, Quaker Valley High School, Quaker Valley School Board, Quaker Valley School District, QV Strong, Stratton Nash
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School Squabbles – Another Summer Of Discontent
UPDATED 8/24/21 to include information on CRT dark money campaigns and additional information on masking requirements in local public schools – JL The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins … Continue reading
Posted in Censorship, Civil Liberties, Government, History, Local, Media, Politics, Schools
Tagged Civil Liberties, COVID-19, Critical Race Theory, Masks, McCarthyism, Quaker Valley School District, Racism, Sewickley Academy, Vaccines
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Quotations, Tribulations, and the Carol of the Bells
I hope that your holiday season was joyous and uneventful. It’s been quite a while since I last posted here, and by many accounts since then our world has changed dramatically with the results of November’s election. I was … Continue reading
Posted in Censorship, Community, Government, History, Local, Personal, Politics, Public Safety, Radio Hobby, Schools
Tagged Allegheny County, Beaver County, Bell Acres Borough, Camp Horne Road, Dixmont, Donald Trump, Edgeworth Borough, Leet Township, Quaker Valley School District, Sewickley, Thomas Tull, Village Theater Company
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Assorted School Updates and Silliness
As another school year reaches its stride, it is becoming populated by all manner of disagreements about issues both important and trivial, handled in ways both sublime and ridiculous. Safety vs. the School Day This past Monday, Quaker Valley Middle School … Continue reading
Your Christmas Break Beer Pong Headquarters
Walmart, Grand Junction, CO (West), 12/22/10 This end cap (retail parlance for the shelves at the end of an aisle) display is a recent addition to one of Grand Junction’s two Walmart stores. It has two items on it; 18-ounce … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Business, Censorship, Local, Youth
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