Preschool assistance is SO important. You now have to make under $630 a month to qualify for help, can you imagine making $650 a month with CHILDREN and being told you’re too rich? The old bar was at $2000, it’s been absolutely gutted:
That’s because Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration has frozen admissions to the state’s Child Care Assistance Program and enacted new eligibility guidelines that will put the program out of reach for 90 percent of families who previously would have qualified.
Yes, I’ve been writing a lot about this topic. It’s important. Screwing up this program could have a negative ripple effect for months and years to come.
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I really do hope you read the first of Ella’s Bisto Legs Diaries about her boyfriend’s nasty blood cancer and share it all over social media, because I’m hoping a wolf-like super-agent will swoop in and snatch her up and make her very famous and out of our league and also find a perfect bone marrow match for Tall Man.
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A family very dear to one of our Toasties has lost their small son in an accident, and are trying to pay for the (truly ridiculous by any standards, Jessica Mitford had it right) cost of a funeral. Please help if you can. I give something to literally every cause I signal boost here, by the way, because otherwise I feel like a hypocrite for telling other people to help. The family would also love your prayers and thoughts.
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Bid adieu to Matt and Jaya, who depart with all our thanks and love! Your Mallory shall return to you on Monday, filled with rich new purpose and life, and probably a lot of In N Out.
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Mexicans have doubts about El Chapo’s escape! IMAGINE THAT:
A few samples:
The tunnel is just a ruse to deflect public attention, and Mr. Guzmán, a reputed billionaire with the resources to bribe whomever he liked, simply walked out the front door of the prison.
He didn’t actually escape because he was never in prison in the first place.
The man in prison was not Mr. Guzmán but a look-alike, who either did or did not escape, either through the tunnel or through some other means.
The government had a pact with Mr. Guzmán to let him out of prison, but it reneged, so he took matters into his own hands.
The government had a pact with Mr. Guzmán to let him out of prison, and it stuck to the bargain by letting him escape.
Mr. Guzmán was allowed to escape because the government dispatched him to negotiate a deal with the heads of other drug-trafficking organizations.
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This summer’s gathering began with eulogies: Jim Sedell, a Forest Service researcher who died in 2012, was one of the first researchers to visit the mountain after the eruption, and the first to sample its lakes. John Edwards, a University of Washington ecologist, who also died in 2012, had observed that spiders were ballooning into the blast zone on streams of silk, often from more than thirty miles away. (He somewhat whimsically calculated that they were arriving on the pumice plain at a rate of eight-tenths of a spider per square metre per day). Addressing the gathering, Charlie Crisafulli, a Forest Service ecologist who has studied small mammals, birds, insects, amphibians, and plants on the mountain since the eruption, remarked that he had been twenty-two when he arrived at Mt. St. Helens, and would soon turn fifty-eight. He reminded his colleagues that his office had recently purchased heavy-duty fence posts to mark research plots, and that his crew members were available to record the G.P.S. locations of study sites. “We want to make sure that we transfer this work to a new generation,” he said.
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A new old-timey strongman (I love himmmm):
Upstairs, in his apartment, he used to have boxes filled with playing cards. He trains with those, too, ripping through a new pack like it’s a sheet of paper. Afterwards, he gathers up the pieces, wraps them tight with a rubber band, and then tears through them again. It’s a cost-cutting maneuver. When your training requires that you destroy your equipment, things can get expensive.
When the boxes started piling up, and Schoeck was running out of space, he called a hoarding service. He said goodbye to the cards, but not the steel. Not yet.
“I’m overwhelmed with scrap metal,” he says. “I think it may become a bit of a problem.”
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A delightful sprinking of deleted comments today! All from men.
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Your help is always treasured:
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Your help is always treasured:
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Nice try, broseph:
