Zombie jargon for the end of 2008
As this incredibly horrid, wonderful, and plain odd year limps to a close, we should say goodbye to terms that are long past their usefulness. (Snark warning: It’s the end of a year, and this is one of the rare times that I will actively make fun of bad ideas.) In my view, the following […]
Sansom watch, December 30
Recent items in the news on Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom and his position at Northwest Florida State College: Sansom hired attorney Richard Coates to represent him in responding to the ethics complaint filed against him. Reporting on the ethics complaint by the Tallahassee Democrat, Tampa Tribune, and Capitol News Service. The only additions to […]
Matt Miller’s choice of a model politician on education policy is weird
Matt Miller is back with a fundamentally outlandish idea: At a moment when we’ve basically nationalized the banking, mortgage and insurance industries, a little nationalization of school operating costs is in tune with the times. There’s nothing inherently wrong with a little outlandishness, and he uses funding inequalities as the basic rationale to push a […]
Sansom watch, December 29 edition
This morning, the St. Petersburg Times reported on an ethics complaint filed earlier this month with the Florida Commission on Ethics. The allegation in the complaint is that Ray Sansom “used his public position as a representative of the people to secure a $110,000 per year job as a vice president of Northwest Florida State […]
Sansom watch, December 28 edition
Recent items in the news on Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom and his position at Northwest Florida State College, all today: Alex Leary reported that Sansom and Northwest Florida State College President Bob Richburg e-mailed each other extensively on multi-year plans to funnel $122 million dollars to the college. St. Petersburg Times correspondent Lucy Morgan […]