Oct
3
A season in the cross hairs; Energy bars like gold in land of desperation
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Originally published in The Palm Beach Post on Sunday, October 3, 2004.
By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN
We careened from storm to storm for six weeks here in Florida, complaining about our bland hurricane food.
I couldn’t seem to get rid of our three cases of energy bars bought before Hurricane Ivan. I tried to choke them down, but they [...]
Jan
6
By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN
At Indiantown Middle School in rural Martin County, many children who grew up in poverty, speaking Spanish or Kanjobal, an unwritten Mayan dialect, are earning better writing scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test than some schools in affluent communities such as Wellington and Boca Raton.
In a perfect, egalitarian world, that accomplishment would [...]