Perhaps my proudest Election Night moment

I now can say I closed a bar with a state senator. And I’m done. #cnvote12 (@ Emmett’s Tavern & Brewing Co.) 4sq.com/GCQIxH

— Emily Miller (@mcemilywrites) March 21, 2012

LINK: 12 Great Articles That Inspired Films via The Electric Typewriter

This post (see link below) got me thinking: If one of my articles were turned into a movie, which would it be?

On Facebook, I’ve gotten votes for “Student Gives Birth to Baby in High School Bathroom,” the Sears EDA saga and the articles I’ve written with the Elgin Paranormal Investigators (most recently, this one). Alas, the Drew Peterson case already was made into a Lifetime original movie, and it was based on another reporter’s work.

Any other ideas?

You can find some of my favorite articles in my portfolio and the last few weeks’, here under “Articles.” You also can turn up some oldies if you search Google News for “Emily McFarlan.”

LINK: 12 Great Articles That Inspired Films via The Electric Typewriter

KONY 2012

KONY 2012 from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo.

Is anybody in the Elgin, Ill., area planning to Make Kony Famous on April 20? If so, email me at emcfarlan@stmedianetwork.com. I’d be interested in covering it for The Courier-News.

LINK: Beyond The Classroom via theeta.org

Here’s a link to teachers’ full prepared remarks at Monday’s U46 Board of Education meeting. That meeting follows the Elgin Teachers Association’s request for mediation in its contract negotiations with School District U46 and it’s first-ever “grade-in” during that meeting.

LINK: Beyond The Classroom via theeta.org

LINK: Secure schools: Lockdowns just one way to make them — and students — safer (Sun-Times Media)

Concerned about the safety of your school after yesterday’s school shooting in Ohio? Here’s a link to a report I wrote this fall about school safety in Elgin School District U46 and Community Unit School District 300.

Secure schools: Lockdowns just one way to make them — and students — safer (Sun-Times Media)

Photo credit: Michael Smart for Sun-Times Media.