The St Louis Business Journal (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Joan Ryan notified the board of Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc. Wednesday that she intends to retire from the board, the company said in a regulatory filing Monday. (BBW)
Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Several British Members of Parliament participated in a debate on Sri Lanka's internment camps, Wednesday 28 October for nearly 3 hours starting from 2:30 p.m. Many MPs cited the inhumane conditions under which more than 250,000 Tamil civilians are being kept in military supervised internment camps in Sri Lanka and called for the termination of GSP+ trade benefits and suspension of Sri Lanka from British...
Getting Better (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
EverythingHealth strongly recommends a wonderful new book called The Water Giver and I predict you will not be able to put it down. Author Joan Ryan is a remarkable writer who takes the reader on a journey she lived when her son Ryan sustained a near fatal severe head and...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
Editor - Few stories, articles or book excerpts have appeared in The Chronicle recently which are as compelling as Joan Ryan's story about the challenges she has faced in being a mother ("The Water Giver," Sept. 8 and 9). God bless her and her husband and God...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The Water Giver The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance By Joan Ryan (Simon and Schuster; 260 pages; $24) For the longest time, Joan Ryan focused on the negative aspects of parenting. She bemoaned the aggravations and disappointments. Her son,...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Joan Ryan is an award-winning journalist and author who lives in Marin County. She worked as a sports and news columnist at the San Francisco Examiner, then The Chronicle, from 1985 to 2007. Ryan's new book, "The Water Giver" (Simon & Schuster), from which...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
Joan Ryan is an award-winning journalist and author who lives in Marin County. She worked as a sports and news columnist at the San Francisco Examiner, then The Chronicle, from 1985 to 2007. Ryan's new book, "The Water Giver" (Simon & Schuster), from which...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
Editor's note: Joan Ryan is an award-winning journalist and author who lives in Marin County. She worked as a sports and news columnist at the San Francisco Examiner, then The Chronicle, from 1985 to 2007. Ryan's new book, "The Water Giver" (Simon & Schuster)...
Art & Cultural Events List (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
Boston - On Saturday evening, September 5, at the Atlantic Works Gallery in East Boston, local artists Elizabeth Hathaway and Joan Ryan, and Cambridge-based Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) unveil a new exhibition titled “Make Believe”, a multi-media response to the effects of war on women and children in Darfur. Through paintings, photographs and video the artists and the human rights...
NORTON FOLGATE (Free subscription) | 16/07/2009
Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington), David Anderson (Blaydon), John Austin (Erith and Thamesmead), Joe Benton (Bootle), Clive Betts (Sheffield Attercliffe), Lyn Brown (West Ham), Russell Brown (Dumfries and Galloway), R ichard Burden (Birmingham Northfield), Dawn Butler (Brent South), Martin Caton (Gower), Ann Cryer (Keighley), Jim Cunningham (Coventry South) Quentin Davies (Grantham and...
Pete's Politics (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
Following MarkReckons’ “My MPs Meme” here’s a list of all the MPs who have represented me since I was born. I’ve been fairly mobile over the past 5 years, so I’ve been represented by a few in that time. David Heathcote-Amory (Wells) – Conservative (2 1/2 years) Tim Eggar (Enfield North) – Conservative (8 years) Joan Ryan (Enfield [...]
The Croydonian (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
Could this be the euphemism of the decade ? " Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment he has made of the effects of intensive livestock farming on climate change ; and if he will make a statement. Jim Fitzpatrick: DEFRA has commissioned a number of studies, some of which are ongoing, to assess the environmental impacts of greenhouse gas...
John Rentoul (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
My previous comment saluting the bravery of the comrades that have told the truth about Gordon Brown's leadership included a partial roll call of Labour MPs who have done so publicly. I promised a fuller list, so here it is. However, it is still not comprehensive, and there are complications. One is, for example, how to classify assorted flavours of the hard left, whose guiding principle is to be opposed...
Telegraph Blogs - Daniel Hannan (Free subscription) | 06/06/2009
I noted yesterday that Labour women had displayed more cojones than their male colleagues . While the Hains and Johnsons and Milibands ponced and preened and publicly protested their loyalty, the women acted: first Siobhan McDonagh, then Joan Ryan, Fiona Mactaggart and Janet Anderson, now Jacqui Smith and Hazel Blears. As Margaret Thatcher used to say "If you want something said, ask a man; if...
The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 28/05/2009
Cashing in on the taxpayers.... The former junior minister claimed more than £4,500 in MPs' expenses under the Additional Costs Allowance (ACA) for work on her home in her constituency of Enfield North, north London, which she had designated as her second home. The Labour MP then wrote to the Commons fees office explaining that she wanted to designate her flat in south London as her second home....
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