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	<title>Jonathan Kantrowitz</title>
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	<description>Political activist, health nut</description>
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		<title>CT Should Adopt A Bicycle Helmet Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 13:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rate of bicycle-related fatalities significantly lower in states with helmet laws Legislation can be vital in helping parents adhere to best practices Existing research shows that bicyclists who wear helmets have an 88 percent lower risk of brain injury, but researchers at Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital found that simply having bicycle helmet laws in place showed<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/kantrowitz/2013/05/23/ct-should-adopt-a-bicycle-helmet-law/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>SNAP Amendment With Racially Tinged Impacts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 20:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Kantrowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today’s Senate debate on the farm bill, Senator David Vitter offered — and Senate Democrats accepted — an amendment that would increase hardship and will likely have strongly racially discriminatory effects. The amendment would bar from SNAP (food stamps), for life, anyone who was ever convicted of one of a specified list of violent<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/kantrowitz/2013/05/22/snap-amendment-with-racially-tinged-impacts/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Study links chemicals widely found in plastics and processed food to elevated blood pressure in children and teens</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 20:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Kantrowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Data from nearly 3,000 children shows dietary exposure to certain plastics may play a hidden role in epidemic increases in childhood hypertension Plastic additives known as phthalates (pronounced THAL-ates) are odorless, colorless and just about everywhere: They turn up in flooring, plastic cups, beach balls, plastic wrap, intravenous tubing and—according to the Centers for Disease<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/kantrowitz/2013/05/22/study-links-chemicals-widely-found-in-plastics-and-processed-food-to-elevated-blood-pressure-in-children-and-teens/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Alleviating hunger in the US &#8212; researcher says, it&#8217;s a SNAP</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 20:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Kantrowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A University of Illinois researcher says that the cornerstone of our efforts to alleviate food insecurity should be to encourage more people to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) &#8220;because it works.&#8221; According to Craig Gundersen, SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, is a great social safety net program and with<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/kantrowitz/2013/05/22/alleviating-hunger-in-the-us-researcher-says-its-a-snap/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Per Student Public Education Spending Decreases in 2011 for First Time in Nearly Four Decades</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/kantrowitz/2013/05/22/per-student-public-education-spending-decreases-in-2011-for-first-time-in-nearly-four-decades/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 13:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Kantrowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fiscal year 2011 marked the first decrease in per student public education spending since the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting data on an annual basis in 1977, according to new statistics released today (dollars not adjusted for inflation). The 50 states and the District of Columbia spent $10,560 per student in 2011, down 0.4 percent<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/kantrowitz/2013/05/22/per-student-public-education-spending-decreases-in-2011-for-first-time-in-nearly-four-decades/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Tea Party and the Politics of Paranoia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 19:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Kantrowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of tea party claim the movement springs from and promotes basic American conservative principles such as limited government and fiscal responsibility. But new research by University of Washington political scientist Christopher Parker argues that the tea party ideology owes more to the paranoid politics associated with the John Birch Society — and even the<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/kantrowitz/2013/05/21/the-tea-party-and-the-politics-of-paranoia/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Connecticut Commuter Service Plan</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/kantrowitz/2013/05/20/connecticut-commuter-service-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Kantrowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[in effect for Monday, May 20, and until further notice on the New Haven Rail Line Free Bus Fares for MTA Passengers with May passes on busses on Greater Bridgeport Transit, Norwalk &#038; Milford The Connecticut Department of Transportation and Metro-North Railroad today released the following information regarding service on the New Haven commuter rail<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/kantrowitz/2013/05/20/connecticut-commuter-service-plan/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>NEWS FLASH:  Connecticut Charter Schools outperform public schools…in suspending kindergarten students!</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/kantrowitz/2013/05/18/news-flash-connecticut-charter-schools-outperform-public-schoolsin-suspending-kindergarten-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 21:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Kantrowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jon Pelto from Wait, What Well, we’ve finally found proof that charter schools do outperform their public school counterparts. In the percentage of children 6 and under who get suspended from school. In a stunning story that was posted on the CT Mirror website late today, the CT Mirror’s Jacqueline Rabe examines a new<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/kantrowitz/2013/05/18/news-flash-connecticut-charter-schools-outperform-public-schoolsin-suspending-kindergarten-students/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Save money-saving juvenile justice programs from the axe</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/kantrowitz/2013/05/18/save-money-saving-juvenile-justice-programs-from-axe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 11:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Kantrowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Connecticut has made great strides in reducing youth crime and costly juvenile incarceration, but those gains are in jeopardy. That was the message shared by state and national leaders at a forum yesterday at the Legislative Office Building. Juvenile crime has dropped to record lows in the past decade largely because of a shift to<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/kantrowitz/2013/05/18/save-money-saving-juvenile-justice-programs-from-axe/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Winslow Homer Exhibition in Williamstown, Massachusetts.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Kantrowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The greatest collection of works by Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910) assembled by one person since the artist’s death—and one of the leading collections of any art museum in the United States—will be featured this summer at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Winslow Homer: Making Art, Making History explores the artist’s career with a<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/kantrowitz/2013/05/17/winslow-homer-exhibition-in-williamstown-massachusetts/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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