The Public Asks: lots of questions about ABBS and mold
One of this newspaper’s most popular features over many years has been our “Public Asks” column, in which the newspaper tries to find answers to readers’ questions about matters...
A slushy slope toward a conflict of interest
We really don’t mean to be picking on school board member Ryan Bowden, but it just seems that he continues to be at the forefront of controversial issues, and...
Even ABSS propaganda can’t put positive spin on dismal academic performance
“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These...
Elections have consequences, all right; so do not having any
There’s an oft-quoted adage, most often used by career politicians, that “elections have consequences,” by which they usually mean that since they’ve won, they plan to charge forward with...
Does school board member with no children/grandchildren in ABSS schools have any more...
We don’t know Brandy Whittaker, one of the ABSS parents who took the podium at last week’s school board meeting to upbraid the school board and school officials for...
If they don’t want to fill a school board seat (at all), just say...
We don’t have an especially strong feeling about whether the school board should appoint someone to fill the seat left vacant by longtime member Patsy Simpson’s move to Virginia...
On Caesar’s wife and the need to learn from history
We’ve often written of our belief that public officials and their spouses ought to remain “as pure as Caesar’s wife,” as the old saying goes.
The adage refers to the...
It’s always. . . “for the children” – especially when it’s politically expedient
We could have written most of the story from this week’s joint meetings between county commissioners and school board members before the first member of either board spoke, or...
Years of ABSS ignoring damage from water leaks in schools has contributed to apparent...
ABSS officials are almost breathless with alarm about the possibility that mold may be present in, possibly, more than a dozen of the school system’s 37 schools.
They’re ostensibly so...
But some bad ideas are “free” – or at least don’t involve consultants
As for the category of bad ideas that didn’t come from a consultant, we have to give the grand prize to Graham’s police chief Kristy Cole Baker.
We discovered her...
