Test Anxiety, Rib Cookoffs & Convenient Hoaxes: Listening To Local Voices

1. It's finals season and photographer/high school student Ashley Riddle has written a pertinent post about the pressures of publicizing test scores.

"Were you ever that one kid who was lagging behind? I was," she writes. "It was really hard for me to learn my multiplication table. I remember coming home after school, trying to memorize the whole table. I would get so aggravated when I messed up that I'd start crying...

"Look at it like this: When all your classmates have 18 stickers and we all need to have 20 to get a party, and you're the only one in the class with 9 - you best believe that you'll end up getting your shoes flushed in the toilet during recess."

Riddle may not like multiplication but she certainly has a way with words.

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2. It's also ribs season.

And, while you may think the rib cookoff was birthed in the south or New York, it actually came from Cleveland.

Matt Pawlikowski drops some lip-smacking history . But don't read this if you're too hungry. It may cause salivation.

3. Patrick Giusto, the self-proclaimed defender of common sense, talks about why the is good for the economy.

No, .

Seriously, .