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...Seattle's already successful community-news blogs are anything to go by, Vance may be right. West Seattle Blog and My Ballard are well trafficked and provide extensive coverage of local politics and business, with newsgathering that's often guided by questions posted by users. The city is also well covered by two public radio stations, KUOW and KPLU, as well as the alternative weeklies The Stranger and Seattle Weekly and local TV news and talk radio...
Nurse home visitor Tammy Ballard has had some memorable experiences in close to a decade of helping new mothers raising their children in poverty in Dayton, Ohio. Once, she arrived at a new client's home to find a TV news crew waiting outside; apparently, someone fleeing gunfire had sought shelter there. Another time, she knocked on a door only to hear shrieking in response, but no one would let her in. Later she learned it was the family's parrots, which had been trained to squawk at visitors. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...Ballard's job - when she can get in the house - is to try to give low-income parents a leg up. She teaches them many of the same child-rearing techniques that give the children of middle-class and educated parents an edge socially and in school - and that instruction is often eye-opening for both Ballard and her clients. You would be surprised to know what new parents don't know, Ballard says, recalling the case of one father who thought babies couldn't hear at birth. He asked, "When do their eyes open?' He thought they were like...
...Olds says his program is ready to grow. "The NFP is shovelready for substantial expansion, as long as we recognize that serving 500,000 new families per year will take time." But it's an investment that self-propagates. Once the nurses have educated new moms, says Ballard, the mothers start educating one another. "It's so neat to watch," she says. "We give information to our clients, and they share with neighbors. One client was the go-to person for everything. She'd say, 'Talking to your babies makes them smart.' And the other moms would always come...
...problem, because Whedon has set a challenging goal. Whereas his past series had ready-made good-vs.-evil setups, Dollhouse is morally nebulous. Sometimes we're rooting for Ballard to bust the Dollhouse, sometimes we're rooting for Echo's handlers and protectors in the organization that pimps her out. (Harry Lennix is sympathetic as her conflicted bodyguard, and Fran Kranz amusingly skeevy as the in-house tech geek.) Pulling this off means getting the audience to connect with a lead who is not, in the usual sense, a person, which may be more than Echo--or Dushku--can manage...