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ONe wonders what minefields lie in city of Washington's budget and spending. The former city manager did not get his records in on time to do an on time audit. Who knows what will be found when the documents finally do get pulled together. No wonder he beat a hasty retreat in resigning. The city needs to claw back the outrageous sum of money he was paid in that sweetheart deal on his resignation.

Commented: Thursday, December 11th, 2025 @ 3:21 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Stan, the Biden admin could not solve the Jan 6 pipe bomb case because solving it (revealing who the guilty party was), would NOT fit the Jan 6 narrative. That narrative being that white radicals were the problem on Jan 6.
Not solving it was a cover-up. Wray KNEW.

Commented: Thursday, December 11th, 2025 @ 12:53 pm By: Washingtonian

One has to wonder: Why Empty Suited Christopher Wray could not get this done, but Kash Patel could? Is it because he is far smarter, or just far more principled, or, is this the Trump Doctrine, which is far different than the Corrupt Biden Administration: 'Hard work for the People, and try not to do anything stupid?'

Commented: Thursday, December 11th, 2025 @ 11:47 am By: Stan Deatherage

In Ohio also
Attorney and political commentator Mehek Cooke is blowing the whistle on what she is calling a massive Medicaid fraud scheme involving the Somali community in Ohio.
www.yahoo.com

Commented: Thursday, December 11th, 2025 @ 5:50 am By: Countrygirl1411

There is Too much Govt control by small brains.
I read... I think it was about China of old. The emperor blamed the
sparrows as the cause of hunger. He said the birds are eating the grain. So he decreed that all people should work day and night to kill off the birds. Finally there were few birds left, but guess what, then came the insects. The insects ate everything. The people starved.

In England a religious leader decreed that cats were demons. So they killed off all the cats, then came the RATS and the Black Death.

Commented: Wednesday, December 10th, 2025 @ 3:50 pm By: Washingtonian

Why Borderhawk?
Its because the complications of Government has outgrown the intelligence of most of the people who are running our Govt. Their brains cant cope with the entanglement of so many newly adopted agencies and all the rules that go along with it. And its even worse for those
getting old. It's easier to just vote yes, and throw the money out the window. Easy come, easy go!

Commented: Wednesday, December 10th, 2025 @ 3:41 pm By: Washingtonian

There is a more recent revision to 3100 that Steve Rader introduced as a board member and got passed unanimously. The earlier one that Donald introduced before Steve was on the board was drafted by Steve, who was not a board member at the time, and introduced by Donald. Those revisions were drafted to address citizen concerns that came up during the curriculum process for social studies. Steve has a lot of experience in state government with drafting state government rules which is very useful in drafting of school board policies since they follow the same process. It is also helpful that he is a lawyer. He is probably the only board member with that skill set.

I regret that some conservatives seem to have soured on Donald. Donald has his own set of principles and most of them are conservative. He has been very helpful to the cause when it comes to curriculum.

Commented: Wednesday, December 10th, 2025 @ 2:37 pm By: Conservative Voter

Steve has done an outstanding job standing up for education, we taxpayers, and a more fulsome society yet to be created.

Commented: Wednesday, December 10th, 2025 @ 11:49 am By: Stan Deatherage

I learned a very long time ago that what the schools wanted, was my child, my money, and for me to BUTT OUT!
How do they get parents to butt out? Well one easy way is to inflate grades. You young parents should know that if your child is getting A's, B's C's on the report card, dont believe that they are doing that level of work. They are NOT. Not even the A students.
I recall my son was in a 9th grade level math class and that N.C. required students to take a state issued exam on that subject at year end. I called to ask how my child did on that state exam, the employee said he got a C on the class, I said, but what did he do on the state exam? She replied, Well he failed that!
I exclaimed: THEN, what good did it do him to give him a passing grade? He doesnt know the subject!

Commented: Wednesday, December 10th, 2025 @ 11:09 am By: Befuddled

Bath parent: You certainly do not teach civics or history or you would know that it is the responsibility of elected officials to keep the pressure on the education system to make sure they are actually educating children.

You are clueless a to what my responsibilities are to the public. Defending the "relaxed elected officials" shows me that we are not getting our money's worth from you.

Commented: Wednesday, December 10th, 2025 @ 6:58 am By: Hood Richardson

Bath parent, that is not what I said. One teacher had indicated there was a time that it was not taught like it is now. She did not say how long ago that was, and I did not ask, because my interest was in what is being done now. I have not indicated any personal knowledge of whether and to what extent cursive has been taught in the past, although it seems to me that was likely a problem in our state at some point for the legislature to pass the law mandating the teaching of it. I am aware that a family member who is a high school student says many of his classmates do not read and write cursive. As I suggested, we need to work on more ways for students to use cursive during their school years to maintain that skill. It may well be that it is being lost through lack of regular use.

One thing you will find about me is that I am future focused, not dwelling on blame games from the past. I liked what I saw and heard with what our teachers are doing now with cursive writing and I want to build on that into the future.

Commented: Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 @ 9:31 pm By: Steven P. Rader