To answer this question, we turn to Judi Casey, Director of the New England Work and Family Association at Boston College. Child Psychologist Stanley Greenspan says that is a problem. What Every Child Must Have to Grow, Learn, and Flourish. We talk to Dr. Greenspan about his controversial stand. When voters go to the polls November 7th, not only will they choose their next president, they will also be providing answers to over 200 ballot questions nationwide.
Ballot questions are the process by which citizens can make state laws, rather than legislatures.
In all 50 states questions can be put on ballots by lawmakers, but only in 27 states can citizens do the same. Ballot questions and citizens' rights to make laws are the main topics for our press panel this week. Film goers believed that the story of the three young documentary filmmakers tracking the legend of the evil Blair witch in the black hills near Burkittsville, Maryland was true. Here and Now's film reviewers Karen Malme and Eric Shaeffer are joined by guest reviewer and expert on the history of witches, Rose Earhart. Earhart lives in Salem, Massachusetts and is an historian and lecturer on the Salem witch trials.