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My response to the Times Herald article "Obama school speech snubbed."
It seems that every four years we have to push our kids more and more to care about politics, to get out and vote. It is our schools' job to teach our children the importance of public decisions and how our nations works.

For our county's schools to say that they will not show Obama's back to school address, to me, is just one more reason why our children can so easily care so little about politics.

I'm very dissappointed to hear that my former high school, PWHS, will not show the adddress when eight years ago, a political science teacher stressed so strongly during the Bush vs. Kerry election that when students are engaged in current events today, they and their country have a leg up on tomorrow.

I hope to see the Colonial School District and the other districts on Montgomery County change their minds. In the meantime, I remain disappointed.

-Andy S. "

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If you have been following me on Twitter recently (@AndyStettler) then you know that I've been completely obsessed with working on our Oct. Halloween Feature. This feature will basically be a multimedia feature of Montgomery County residents telling their stories about their experiences with the supernatural.

I've become so obsessed with the idea of this feature that I've even started a Twitter tag searchable under #MontyOct. If you search on twitter using that tag you'll find a number of updates I've tweeted about the upcoming feature and its progress.

But more importantly, I'd like to give everyone what they have been asking for, a chance to hear a snippet of what this feature will entail. So here it is a rough cut podcast of what we will have ready in Oct. Enjoy!

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