Children

Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin, who also is State Fire Marshal and Chairman of the Safe Kids North Carolina organization, helped kick off National Child Passenger Safety Week on Saturday, September 12, in Greensboro. Watch news coverage from TimeWarner NewsChannel 14 here.

Also, read here from Goodwin's press release about why this issue matters and what parents can do to protect their children in car seats.

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For this and other news from your Insurance Commissioner, feel free to check in over at Wayne's World (his personal blog) from time to time.

I am so glad Rep. Miller is in Washington working to uncover the corruption and end the abuse of this Administration. Still, I so wish we could all get our families and neighbors to care more. I believe The corruption and abuse will stop on the day that the American people wake up and say, "Stop."

This post is my reaction to this article posted by the incredible Betsy Muse.

Fp'd by Betsy because a rant can be a beautiful thing....and well, she called me incredible. :)

Until today, I've been singularly unimpressed with Hampton Dellinger as a candidate for Lt. Governor. With grass-roots heroes like Pat Smathers and true progressives like Dan Besse in the race, Mr. Dellinger seemed a little too much a part of the machine, a little too slick, and just didn't set himself apart. Not in the race, at least for me. Until today.

Hamp (I'm going to take the liberty of calling him Hamp)added a Kid's Page to his website. Very Smart. Read more below the fold.

On April 12th, 2007, Liisa Ogburn asked 63 First Graders at JY Joyner Elementary in Raleigh, NC,

“If you had one wish for the world, your family or yourself, what would it be?”

Christmas is almost here and Greensboro’s neediest children are hoping to be ‘adopted” by a generous Santa’s Helper. Are you one of these people?

I am doing one of my favorite things again this year: working as a Volunteer at the Salvation Army on their Christmas Angel Tree Program. We took applications of families needing help making their children’s holiday more bright in late October and early November. We are now in the process of finding Santa’s Helpers who wish to adopt a child or a family.

This is how the program works for you who are new to it. First we take applications of families who MUST prove their, how shall I say this, poverty. On this application we take all data concerning the family like address, phone, monthly income from all sources and monthly required out go. Then comes the good part; we list the children in the family along with their ages, sizes and what they would like best to receive for Christmas. We caution the parents who of course are applying to be reasonable in their request for toys and most are. We ask them to limit their request to under $50 per child. Most requests are far below that figure however.