I had forgotten how wonderful CBS Sunday Morning News is! Today, I saw an incredibly inspiring program, Holding Court And Performing Miracles, profiling Bob Hurley's 40 years successfully coaching HS basketball at a small parochial school without its own gym. All but 3 of his inner city players have gone to college during those decades.

This is another of those "things that work" news stories that we don't talk enough about.

I just found a very interesting progressive blog which today reports on the drive for marraige equality across New England, as covered in today's New York Times article:

http://www.ablueview.com/2009/04/new-england-once-again-the-leader-in-abolishing-unjust-laws.html

I first heard on NPR about the positive results that Missouri has with rehabilitating juvenile offenders. Last week, the NYT had an an article about how other states, like Florida, are also finding the benefit of similar programs which keep young criminals out of jail, where they consistently grow up to be (expensive, as well as dangerous) adult felons.

In the category of "things that work but we don't talk about them, even when they could make us feel good and save taxpayers money," you can't find a better example than this story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/us/27juvenile.html