Tag Archives: connecticut

Changing ‘normal’ for foster care’s used and abused children

08/15/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
They normalize the experience of being used for financial gain? Isn’t that slavery? Who would say such a thing? Is that an actual quote? These are the words of Ms. Withelma “T” Ortiz Walker Pettigrew as she testified before Congress…

The new drama of adolescence and a Connecticut teen’s senseless death

04/26/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
Apr. 25, 2014: People gather at the beach for a vigil in honor of murdered student Maren Sanchez in Milford, Connecticut. (Reuters) Maren Sanchez, 16, a student at the Jonathan Law High School in Milford, Connecticut, was stabbed to death…

16-year-old alleged school stabber should not be tried in adult court

04/11/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
Alex Hribel, the 16-year-old sophomore charged in the mass stabbing at his Murrysville, Pennsylvania high school, has been charged as an adult with four counts of attempted homicide and 21 counts of aggravated assault. Despite the horrific nature of Hribel’s…

A conflicted Democrat’s take on the GOP autopsy and CPAC

03/20/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
After attending the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference, better known as CPAC, I read the Republican National Committee’s “autopsy report” on the state of the party. ;As a progressive who pretty much wants to see the conservative movement and…

Nor’easter to veer away from Sandy-ravaged Jersey Shore

11/06/2012 Published on Foxnews.com
How much can they take? Staten Islanders still digging out from superstorm Sandy now face a new weather threat. (AP) The Jersey Shore may have caught a break as a nor’easter that threatened to bring new flooding on the heels…