This and That
Well, the A-J blog relocation seems to have gone well. Thanks to all the LubbockOnline staff for providing a swell home on the internet.
Unfortunately, the move meant that Lubbock Left posting and commenting went away for a few days. Oh well.
So, what did I miss? For starters, Alberto “I cannot recall” Gonzales got a six-figure/one-class professor gig at Texas Tech this Fall, earning Lubbock another black eye in the national scene. I expect that the Hancellor will be offering Karl Rove a million-dollar janitorial position next.
On the international scene, President Obama is keeping us out of a new cold war and putting us on a path toward nuclear disarmament as he promised. Thank goodness that the unipolar worldview of American Exceptionalism is no longer dominating our foreign policy.
Meanwhile back at the ranch, the City of Lubbock has been busy banning balloon releases and cutting the budget of our Health Department. (And guess which one of those two topics the talk radio guys have been fixating on? This is why Lubbock needs more bloggers.)
What else is new? Leave a comment with the news you wish you could have discussed over the past few days and let’s have a go at it.
Tomorrow: superheroes!
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July 10th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-g-kellman/an-elephant-in-the-classr_b_228236.html
July 13th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
I attended the Board of Health meeting that had Health Department budget cut on it and 5 of the 9 board members were absent including Josie Alvarado,Darwell Dingell and Everado Cobos. The other two absent had called in earlier with absentee notifications but the above 3 were AWOL. Meeting could not be called to order due to lack of quorum. Kae Hentges had to reschedule meeting for later date. I’ve never attended ANY Lubbock committee/commission/board meeting that had no quorum. Ted Hartman was dismayed and claimed he couldn’t remember quorum never being present at Board of Health meeting.
http://lubbockcountyregister.blogspot.com/2009/07/awol-members-of-lubbock-board-of-health.html