With local media obsessing a bit this week on the 50th anniversary of the partial meltdown of an experimental nuclear reactor above Chatsworth, here’s the first comprehensive news story on the 1959 incident — a four-part series on KNBC in 1979. (Today’s Daily News feature mistakenly says the details didn’t become public until ten years later.) Warren Olney, now the host of Which Way, L.A.? and To the Point on KCRW, did the stories with legendary Los Angeles TV news producer Pete Noyes.

I had the pleasure of speaking to 2,500 educators on July 13, 2009, at the AFT’s educational issues conference in Washington, D.C. Here’s a portion of my speech: Some of the best-kept secrets regarding American public education are the success stories . Teachers have lots of know-how when it comes to improving teaching and learning, but we don’t hear nearly enough about the many schools where this know-how and hard work are producing dramatic improvements. Sen.

at Michael Jackson’s funeral was Queen Latifah’s reading of the Maya Angelou poem “We Had Him.” The popular poetess wrote the poem specifically for the occasion (no easy task) and just that morning asked Latifah to perform it, which she did with spirit and elegance. from The Huffington Post: Maya Angelou’s Elegy For Michael Jackson ~~~~~~~~~~~

Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) committed to finish health care reform by the August recess in a meeting with President Obama Monday, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) told the Huffington Post . Obama made it abundantly clear to congressional leaders that the August deadline was crucial to the reform-effort’s success. The question of just what Baucus, a key leader of the health care reform effort in the Senate, committed to in the private meeting has been an open one on Capitol Hill.

Well, perhaps he did not state it specifically, but he certainly did one of the worst tap dance routines I’ve ever seen. When David Gregory asked him about the reasons that Sarah Palin gave for resigning as governor of Alaska, all he could do was stutter about her service being greater as a private citizen. This followed an admission that he had spoken with her, at length, and had only been surprised that she did not speak to him before her press conference.

WORCESTER, Mass., July 14 /PRNewswire/ The Huffington Post ‘The Internet Newspaper’ featured today Dr .Robert Lanza’s new book Biocentrism .The article by ACT’s Lanza explains how life is the key to understanding the universe .The Huffington Pos …

Conservative activist Alan Keyes ‘ legal challenge of President Barack Obama ’s citizenship won a small victory in Santa Ana on Monday when U.S. District Judge David Carter agreed to hear “the merits” of the case, according to this item on the Huffington Post blog. The theory is that Obama was born outside the country and that his birth certificate is fake, a sentiment I explored in this story last year. A similar lawsuit filed last year was thrown out, as I noted here .

Dr. Hansen was arrested for trespassing on Massey Coal property in West Virginia at a mountaintop removal coal mining protest in June, and has since published a plea in the Huffington Post to President Obama to outlaw mountain top removal. His support of biochar is paramount.  Next to Al Gore , he is the most vocal advocate of government action to alleviate and prevent further stress on our planet.  As demonstrated in his paper, however, he does not simply support any policy measures taken; he warns that half-hearted attempts to create legislation can be more damaging to our efforts than no legislation at all.