When I first saw the article about Amos and A.J. Brown, I was surprised, too. But I think the reason that the Amos Brown story was run, and put on the front page was to get the message out to the community that A.J. and Amos are gone. Don't bother looking for them, homies, they are gone and apparently do not plan on coming back. To those in the 'hood, there is no forwarding address. Time to get on with life.

To the Browns, wherever they may be, I hope you find what you are looking for.

I did check out the site and was impressed, Steve. I am doing all I can to support this ballot and I'm sorry to hear that your election signs and Artie's were lifted. I will encourage those I know as much as I can to vote for you all.

I saw some Steve Colarossi signs on Tierney Street today. The residence had other signs on the front lawn, too, but I didn't get a chance to really look at them as I was driving. Go, Steve!!!

Actually, I'm kinda glad that I confused Naramake and Nathan Hale because that brings one more student body into the mix.

Columbus - aides cut
Naramake - principal choice AND portable classroom problems
Nathan Hale - promised teachers cut
Special Education parents - Spectrum Kids debacle
Overall district - NFT negoiations -

Looking at that quick and dirty list, and if you add Mr. McCain in there, it's pretty comprehensive. And that's just the stuff I'm aware of. In another fifteen minutes, it will be only 50 days until Election Day. What else can I say???

Rose - According to the plastic surgeon that put in the stitches and the dentist who worked on my teeth, had I been wearing a helmet, the chin strap probably would have absorbed some of the impact. My teeth would have been loosened, but according to the surgeon, the laceration on my chin would have been much, much smaller. Both the dentist and the surgeon agreed that I was "extremely lucky". You can argue with their conclusions, but I'd imagine they based their comments on previous experiences. At the time, I was not in a position to argue with either of them.

Okay. I wasn't aware of the issue with Mr. McCain. Thanks for filling me in.

I was concerned about the inside classroom vs. portable issue because it seemed to me that there was a lengthy presentation as to why the portables were needed, and I think they have also discussed the number of teachers at Nathan Hale that night, too. The Board voted and based on that vote orders were placed. Then ba-boom! Ms. Jimenez arrives and throws the whole process in an uproar. At one point, during the discussion, I believe Dr. Corda pointed out that very fact and was told, well, we're trying to save money here. Okay, fine, but re-inventing the wheel is not necessarily the way to do it.

I stand corrected. My apologies to Mr. Hopp.

Sorry, I don't know why my post didn't show up. I didn't delete it. The server wouldn't take it.

My comment simply was that I have a jaw with a weather wise hairline fracture, a number of lower teeth that were "displaced" and a nice scar on my chin, along with two dozen stitches that went into creating that scar that I probably could have avoided had I been wearing a bicycle helmet.

I'm not arguing here, Coach, but if I am not mistaken, I'm pretty sure that the only four seats that will be on the ballot are currently filled by Democrats. And I am not saying that the Democrats have a corner on the market called Stupidity. Also, I don't know the candidates that are running for the seats other than Colarossi and Haynie. I know Steve is running as a Republican and don't know which party ticket Sue is running on. Quite frankly, unless either of them are running on the Anarchist Party ticket, I don't much care because I think both of them will do well on the Board.

As far as I know, the only two Republicans on the Board are Iannaccone and Chiaramonte. Both of them are fairly new to the Board, so they've been fairly low key. Did either one of them do something outlandish that I missed? I know Jimenez hit the ground running by proposing to have Naramake use an inside music room as a classroom instead of purchasing a portable, which had already been approved by the Board earlier. If Iannaccone or Chiaramonte blundered in some major way, I'd be interested to hear about it.

Well, I goofed in which school was which. But I was glad that Mrs. Ockasi got the job she obviously deserved even though it took a show of force to do it.

My bad. My apologies.