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Group has magic touch teaching physics
Fire twirls into a vortex, frozen racquetballs shatter, balloons contract and expand, cups of water spin in circles and trash-can cannons shoot perfect rings of smoke into a cheering crowd of children. It is just another day in the life of the Physics Factory team.
Boys & Girls Club warns of candy scam
Officials with the Boston Boys & Girls Club are urging people not buy candy from youths claiming to be raising money for the organization.
Gov. Patrick introduces school reform initiative
Gov. Deval Patrick unveiled a series of education proposals aimed at reducing dropouts, expanding kindergarten and aiding minority children and said he'd consider everything - from new taxes to casino revenues - to help pay for the initiative.
Obama meets with Appleton family before town hall meeting
Before Barack Obama spoke to more than a thousand people at a town hall rally, he met privately backstage Thursday with a family of four.
Perkins rejoins Pacers in front office
Sam Perkins, a popular player who finished his 17-year NBA career with the Indiana Pacers in 2001, will return as the team's vice president of player relations.
Time to get real on rent control
The sacred cow. The political third rail. The progressives’ holy grail. The one thing that 99 percent of the world’s economists agree on is that rent control sucks big time for cities and never, ever reduces rents. So why is it that the Fourth Estate and so-called civic leaders are so gutless as to never, ever do any honest and in-depth reporting on rent control in San Francisco? |
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