I found the listing on FB Marketplace, believe it or not; in the ad there, it’s $650/mo. rent. I like that they don’t look like little cottages w/picket fencing around the front lawn.
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State Supreme Courts deciding they don’t want to be thought of go down in history as THAT KIND OF Supreme Court.
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Okay. Time to go back to Costco! We had a membership a couple of times but we never really used it since our local one has the parking lot from hell.
It will be good to support them even if we really don’t shop there.
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Only 3 places covered this legislation on improving foster care, passed and signed. Two on Substack and Native News Online
This bipartisan bill is the first major overhaul of America’s child welfare system in more than 15 years, infusing $75 million more annually into the federal program tasked with combatting child abuse/neglect and protecting children in the foster care system.
Under the bill, for the first time, states will be able to use federal child welfare dollars to give funds to families experiencing an economic emergency, in order to “prevent children from being separated from parents solely on the basis of poverty-related circumstances” that might otherwise lead to the parents being deemed neglectful (and their children being taken into foster care).
The measure would also expand mental health services for children in foster care; ease the transition out of foster care by offering assistance to former foster children until they reach the age of 26; increase funding for the 2.5 million grandparents and relatives raising children who would otherwise go into foster care; create a new requirement that states consult with affected children and parents when crafting their child welfare policies; seek to improve the relationships between incarcerated parents sand their children in foster care; and reduce the administrative burden of child welfare caseworkers by 15%, so they can focus more on children and less on paperwork.
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Are you suggesting there’s a Costco somewhere with good parking? 
Seriously, though, I think it was a fellow BBSer @ TFP who pointed out how much Costco gave back to its local communities, compared to e.g. Sam’s.
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Isn’t sam’s wallyworld? They take from communities. They may pretend to give, but it never makes up for chasing away the mom & pop shops.
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There are still good people doing good things out there. 
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the resilience of Gazans
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They have no choice.
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Sure. I don’t know anything about that platform, but I do think that those who celebrate the resilience of plucky victims while failing to call out and condemn their genocidal oppressors are cringe at best.
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Will Shortz, puzzle editor at the New York Times since 1993, had a stroke in February. Since then, the daily crossword puzzle has been edited by Joel Fagliano. Beginning with tomorrow’s crossword puzzle, Will Shortz is back! You also may know him from NPR.
(this is a gift article, I don’t know why the preview doesn’t work)
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It is a newspaper from Spain. It isnt a bad one, but this article has one of the most stupid sentences I read this week.
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I’m not at all tempted to go there and try to find it.
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