Average Motorist’s Annual Cost for San Diego’s Crappy Roads: $843

San Diego Free Press Average Motorist’s Annual Cost for San Diego’s Crappy Roads: $843 Diversity and Parity in Theatre: Notes from the Dramatists Guild Conference in San Diego Geo-Poetic Spaces: Old Man The Calamity of the Disappearing School Libraries 59 PM Average Motorist’s Annual Cost for San  Diego’s Crappy Roads: $843 Posted: 24 Jul 2015 11:06 AM PDT By Doug Porter  I can just hear the boosterism now: “We’re better than San Jose, Ole!” Fifty one per cent of San Diego’s roads are considered to be in poor condition, according to a study released by TRIP, a national transportation research group.  The region has the eighth-highest rate of lousy roads nationally among large urban areas with more than a half million residents. California cities dominated the study, taking 5 of the bottom 10 rankings. Coming in at number 5 was San Jose, with Concord, Los Angeles and San Francisco/Oakland topping the list.   [Read more...]     Diversity and Parity in Theatre: Notes from the Dramatists Guild Conference in San Diego Posted: 24 Jul 2015 08:18 AM PDT Licensing, royalties, and writing were the main topics when the National Dramatists Guild (DG) convened at Torrey Pines. The Dramatist Guild is a community of playwrights, composers and lyricists dedicated to protecting, informing and promoting the interests of dramatists everywhere. Hundreds of people came from different parts of the country and even the world this past weekend to passionately discuss how when, where and why they are guided by the pen. The conference is held every two years in a different city. There were many known names, those who have and are still writing what everybody is talking about (ahem Frozen…Wicked)   [Read more...]     Geo-Poetic Spaces: Old Man Posted: 24 Jul 2015 08:13 AM PDT Old man when I was mirror you shattered me You reached out for my hand and found slivered fingers   [Read more...]     The Calamity of the Disappearing School Libraries Posted: 24 Jul 2015 08:11 AM PDT Debra Kachel / The Conversation From coast to coast, elementary and high school libraries are being neglected, defunded, repurposed, abandoned and closed. The kindest thing that can be said about this is that it’s curious; the more accurate explanation is that it’s just wrong and very foolish. A 2011 survey conducted with my graduate students of 25 separate statewide studies shows that students who attend schools with libraries that are staffed by certified librarians score better on reading and writing tests than students in schools without library services. And it is lower-income students who benefit the most.   [Read more...]

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