Stories for July 13, 2010

How do you want to live?

Tue, Jul 13, 3:07 p.m.

By Judy Lightfoot

A (videotaped) visit with America's new Poet Laureate, W. S. Merwin

Crosscut Tout: Gelato for workforce re-entry

Tue, Jul 13, 6 a.m.

By Ronald Holden

An ice cream social and gelato walk will benefit Dress for Success.

Budgets squeeze child care at community colleges

Tue, Jul 13, 2 a.m.

By Valerie Topacio

There is growing demand for child care, especially as the economy drives parents back to school. But some colleges find it harder or impossible to keep child-care centers open.

Put health reform into action

Tue, Jul 13, 2 a.m.

By Mark Trahant

As with Medicare decades ago, health-care reform faces cries of "socialism." But with good work on adopting the new law, people will eventually wonder why there was a fuss.