White House on Flickr

Interesting stuff.

[LCSD] In Brief

I am really busy this week, and thus do not have time to comment on the live coverage of the forums or all the candidate coverage.  All I have to say is that you should read the paper.
Oh, and ask why neither Wineteer nor Alexander decided to go to the second forum.  I would like [...]

Specter Goes Dem

From Yahoo:
WASHINGTON – Veteran Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania disclosed plans Tuesday to switch parties, a move intended to boost his chances of winning re-election next year that also will push Democrats within one seat of a 60-vote filibuster-resistant majority.
I think the story hit it on the head in the first paragraph:  Specter wants [...]

Tracking the Swine Flu

Yay pseudo-open-source software!

[LCSD] Book Deals!

OK, so I almost can’t believe I did this, but given the asinine comments that were made about the book co-authored by Hess and Robinson, I felt a little compelled to figure it out.
So I called one of the parties and asked (I am working on contacting the other party).  Here is what I was [...]

[LCSD] Gutters

From RLT:
The only reason I allowed this to be posted was because of Tom McHills close ties with Jennifer. Like I said anyone close to Jennifer is fair game as well as their children. Sorry thats what its like down here in the gutter with the rats.
Once again I learned so many things on Jennifer, [...]

[LCSD] Spiraling from one comment to something much more amorphous – oh, and I get a little pretentious along the way, and fall just short of endorsing any candidates

So the new blogger has a post pointing to a comment on their blog.  This comment – in a truly byzantine fashion – goes after an otherwise squeaky-clean student and attempts to link them to LT.  This is on the belated heels of several other aggressive posts and comments.  I’ve been mulling over this particular [...]

You’ll never look at Doctor Who the same way again

Tacked on to the bottom of a Neil Gaiman post was this. It is awesome.
UPDATE:  Links fixed.

[LCSD] Doing the Administrator Shuffle

A comment left on this website:
Dr Rob Hess was officially hired at last night’s School Board meeting. We met at the conclusion of the Board meeting and discussed administrative assignments for the 2009-2010 school year. We are pleased to announce the following changes with an effective date of July 1, 2009:
Ryan Noss to the Administrator [...]

[LCSD] Kindness

From the “real” LT:
Wow, someone is living in Oz. This is Lebanon, for ten years there has been no kindness and there never will be.
I would humbly suggest that this is really pretty telling, especially when contrasted with the story told at tonight’s board meeting by the LB&GC award winner.  Or the LHS students [...]

[LCSD] Liveblogging

Final Update: Well, the coveritlive coverage seems to be a hit. There were 21 total viewers, which is about what I would have guessed, and 38 comments submitted, which is better than I thought. Also, coveritlive can be used by more than one person at once – maybe someone else out there [...]

[LCSD] WHAT?!

From a new blog no link, given the content of the comment that I am adding a link to after reading the comment below and realizing that publicity might be this new blogger’s worst enemy:
Apparently one principal at the high school who knows the blogger well has run into a sticky situation with her child. [...]

[LCSD] Update on the lowered credit requirements

From Russ McUne, who was kind enough to email me an explanation:
It turns out the board DID approve a requirement change for graduation at the high school (policy IKF). I read the agenda and thought it was just a first read, so figured we could approve it as a first read and have more discussion [...]

General Weekend Update

I will be out of town for work this weekend, so posting will probably be nonexistent and comment moderation may (but should not) be slower than normal.  I SHOULD, with any luck, be around for the LCSD Board meeting Monday night.
Weather’s supposed to be nice this weekend.  Someone should fire up the barbecue….

[LCSD] A thought on Beyond LHS

One of the things that always gets looked at in higher ed at the state level in times of economic crisis is how well the various state institutions and levels overlap (or fail to overlap) as well as how integrated and aligned they are.  For example, how effective is the AAOT degree one can get [...]