Dear School Board

Before you vote for increases tonight and in the following months, please read this article from Allegheny Institute for Public Policy. Teachers' Union Head Claims State Shortchanging Education.

 And asking for more money is not an answer. Taxpayers have the right to expect responsibility and accountability. Public employees who are not willing to be part of a solution will remain part of the problem. Taxpayers have done their part.

Taxpayers have the right to expect responsibility and accountability from you too, School Board Directors. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.  That goes for you too, Timmy and Jan.

The Hart/Fraasch one-two punch

Talk about timely...I was reading an old post by Tom Moertel on Blog-Lebo called How to Brew an Economic Perfect Storm in One Easy Lesson.   The Trib had an article in Sunday's paper written by Jake Haulk (Allegheny Institute for Public Policy) titled, The property tax increase. It was a Policy Brief from Allegheny Institute that inspired Tom to write his piece on brewing an economic perfect storm. 

The comments on Tom's post, almost two years old, are fascinating. Mark Hart made his predictions and James Fraasch shared his thoughts; both were spot on with their comments.  I saw words like LEED certification, 15 Design Criteria, crossing Horsman Drive, etc.  Where are all these people now?  You folks are very quiet now.  In two days, will we be duped into accepting bids just under the limit?  When the bids come in at cost, will people enter a state of "whew" euphoria- even though it's still $115 million damn dollars?  And it is for a project nowhere near what we were promised for $95 million, let alone $113 million!

PS.  Thanks goes to Dave Franklin for coming up with the title of this post.