This New York Times article describes "reports of abuse of troubled young people in privately run boot camps and other residential treatment centers" as widespread, with examples numbering in the thousands, according to a federal report released last Wednesday. The report is about the "bad…
© 2002 Virginia Lamprecht, US Coalition for Child Survival What would you guess is the leading cause of child deaths?Most Americans in a poll sponsored by the U.S. Coalition for Child Survival guessed AIDS or malaria. Celia W. Dugger/NYT42 percent of Americans guessed that AIDS…
"The blog gang sign" from TheDailyNugget.com Today the Spokesman reported in an article by Jody Lawrence-Turner that results of a recent gang sweep in the Spokane area was "greatly exaggerated" and that officials took weeks to set the record straight. The news that 77 "violent…
In 2006, then-editor Steve Smith of The Spokesman-Review had the idea of starting a publication for an often forgotten audience: teenagers. The Vox Box was a continuation of the Vox, an all-student staffed newspaper published by The Spokesman-Review. High school student journalists who staffed the Vox made all content decisions as they learn about the trade of journalism. This blog's mission was to give students an opportunity to publish their voices. The Vox Box and the Vox wrapped up in June 2009, but you can follow former staffers' new blog at http://voxxiez.blogspot.com.
