A Good Episode of This American Life

For you iTunes people out there, check out episode #370 (posted December 21st). The first segment is on people who are difficult to work with, like me, and that's followed up with a great, great look on parents who choose not to get their kids vaccinated. It's a great listen.

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Marketplace on State Budget Woes

(Meta: I went with woes in the title because I couldn't figure out offhand how to spell the plural of the word crisis.)

The Wednesday, December 17th airing of Marketplace on NPR had a good segment on what the larger effect of state budget troubles could be on social services. The piece focuses on California, but there's lessons in it for what we could be looking at here in Washington State as well.

The Governor's budget comes out tomorrow. That's signal material, and should give us all something to look at over the break.

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