“Face every problem with a smile and a positive attitude. It may not change your problem, but it can change the way you go through it.”
-Obadiah Chibuike Njoku
Dexter Fisher has been elected mayor of Athens, making history as the city’s first Black mayor.
He’ll take office in January and says he plans to focus on housing, homelessness, and improving local infrastructure.
I’m so pissed off right now. I can’t catch a break for nothing. I don’t do nobody wrong, I don’t treat nobody wrong, I live off how I would want to be treated, but yet and still I get the short end of the stick.
I’m so pissed off right now. I can’t catch a break for nothing. I don’t do nobody wrong, I don’t treat nobody wrong, I live off how I would want to be treated, but yet and still I get the short end of the stick.
@mainey_maine Hopefully intelligent people will see that this Billionaire is attempting to buy this election just to protect his " No Bid" billion dollar healthcare contract with the state of Georgia and will stop him in his tracks and vote for Keisha Lance Bottoms.
For 26 years, her killer had a name… but she didn’t.
16-year-old Tiffany Bradley from Allentown, Pennsylvania, was trafficked into the Boston area. She was murdered by Eugene McCollom in his room at the Lynn YMCA. He strangled her, decapitated and dismembered her body, dumped her torso in a Chelsea parking lot, and buried her head and hands at Nahant Beach.
For over two decades she was known only as “Chelsea Jane Doe.” McCollom even lied to police, calling her “Lisa,” an adult from Philadelphia.
Her family reported her missing in November 2000 and never gave up hope. This week in 2026, thanks to DNA and genetic genealogy, Tiffany finally has her name back.
She was a daughter, a niece, a cousin, a basketball player — a child who deserved to grow up.
Say her name: Tiffany Bradley. 💔
Rest in peace, sweet girl. 🙏
Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.
The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.
What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.
Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.
In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.