School Safety

The Rainbow Families annual conference was this weekend. It is a convocation of resources for GLBT families all over the Upper Midwest. There are workshops about legal protection of partners and children, artificial insemination, transgender parenting issues, saving for college, and adoption, just to name a few. I've gone to the prospective parent workshops before, so this year, I decided to do the educator track. What I learned about the school conditions of GLBT youth was upsetting. It hasn't gotten much better in the ridiculously huge number of years since I graduated from high school.  Read More »

Huntsville Times
Allowing guns would make campuses more dangerous

Great intentions don't guarantee good results, as an ill-conceived bill by state Sen. Hank Erwin, R-Montevallo, shows.  Read More »