Famous Santa Claus letter spawns scholarship

In September 1897, 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to The New York Sun, which hasn’t been published since 1950, asking, “Please tell me the truth is there a Santa Claus?”
The response to her letter was written by Francis Pharcellus Church, though at the time it was published as an unsigned editorial, and it ran [...]

Student forced to pay $675,000 for illegal downloads

In July, a federal jury in Boston ordered Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University graduate student from Providence, R.I., to pay four record labels $675,000 for illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs.
Isn’t that a pretty big price tag for 30 songs? I think so.
But now it is getting worse for Tenenbaum. Now he is being forced [...]

Schools close due to winter storm

More than 130 schools are closed today due to the wintry weather besieging Kansas.
One of those schools is Western Plains Unified School District 106, which is where I am employed as a paraeducator.
Having a day off, though it results in no pay since I am hourly, is great. I got to sleep [...]

Athletic apathy spurs coaches to make a change

The Western Plains Bobcats are still relatively new to the towns of Bazine and Ransom, Kan.
It was less than 10 years ago that the two towns consolidated their school districts.
The Ransom Longhorns shed their horns and the Bazine Indians dropped their headdresses in favor of claws and paws to become the Bobcats.
According to [...]

UPDATE: Justice Kennedy speaks about ‘prior review’ incident

On Nov. 11 I posted a blog post condemning Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has been a proponent of free speech and the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, for demanding prior review of a newspaper article written by student journalists at a high school he was speaking at.
Read my post here.
Now [...]