Sour economy puts college on hold for more students
McClatchy Newspapers
11/24/2008, by Harriet Johnson Brackey
Sun Sentinel (MCT) - Joe Perri had big college dreams. He wanted to pursue a degree in photography from an arts school.
He and his family saved, hunted for scholarships and applied for financial aid, but they eventually realized they simply couldn't find enough help to offset the $40,000-a-year ...
For family, life is free without debt
McClatchy Newspapers
11/18/2008, by Elizabeth Leland
ROCK HILL, S.C. (MCT) - Travise Smith got fed up with being in debt, and decided to do something about it.
The first thing you should know about Travise is this: When she decides to do something, she's hard to stop. Like the time she packed up and moved from Charlotte, N.C., to Greenville, S.C., ...
The new first daughters: Malia and Sasha Obama youngest kids in White House since Amy Carter
McClatchy Newspapers
11/11/2008, by Erin Chan Ding
The walls of the White House will echo with the giggles of little girls starting in January. This will be quite an adjustment for the presidential palace, as these little girls are the youngest residents since Amy Carter. WASHINGTON (MCT)- America did not need a vote to acknowledge that ...
Kids astride two cultures
McClatchy Newspapers
11/10/2008, by John Boudreau
San Jose Mercury News (MCT) - When 15-year-old Tara Kola talks about life in her new home, she sounds like an exile. Two years after the pull of global economic opportunities lured her family from Saratoga, Calif., the teen feels trapped in a foreign land. To take one example, her school requires ...
Longtime stay-at-home moms searching for paying jobs
McClatchy Newspapers
11/4/2008, by Brenda Gutierrez
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Shelley Holtry's job for the past seven years has been raising her kids, but when the economy started to turn sour, she started pounding the pavement for a paycheck. "I've been looking for about a year, but actually applying for jobs for about six months," Holtry said. ...
Homecoming queen with Down syndrome ‘walking on air'
McClatchy Newspapers
10/29/2008, by Lisa Black
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Now that she's royalty, Anne Jennings dances down the hallways, bursts into excited giggles and hugs her BFFs, or "best friends forever," without warning. Of course, she did pretty much all those things before being named homecoming queen at Libertyville High School, but ...
Opinion – America is the Frog in the Kettle and Families are at Risk
Catholic Online
10/28/2008, by Randy Sly
WASHINGTON (Catholic Online) – Homes and families hang in the balance while America is falling asleep to a lullaby of “change.” The Church is calling to us, “wake up!”. When I was a young boy my father brought four live lobsters home from a business trip to New England. I had never seen a crusty ...
Student internships often lead to real jobs after college
McClatchy Newspapers
10/27/2008, by Patricia Alex
The Record (Hackensack N.J.) (MCT) - College internships can provide a critical leg up in an ever-tightening job market, experts say. Just ask John Miseo, who interned at MTV while still a student at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He landed a full-time job with the television network in Manhattan ...
The Mother of God calls us to be 'Bearers of God'
Catholic Online
1/2/2009, by Deacon Keith A Fournier
Men have crowded all her glory into a single phrase: The Mother of God. No one can say anything greater of her. (Martin Luther) CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - From antiquity, Mary has been called “Theotokos”, or “God-Bearer” (Mother of God). It is a relatively recent phenomenon among some ...
Has economy busted out the boomers?
McClatchy Newspapers
10/14/2008, by Jane Glenn Haas
Has the economy busted the baby boomer? Many wonder. Orange County, CA (MCT) - I want to believe we can make a difference in the world.
I want to follow the dream of my friend, Marc Freedman, and be among the millions of baby boomers he sees retiring to encore careers _ to work that matters to ...
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