City preps plans for progress

by | Jan 3, 2007 | Urban Compass

On a foggy November morning, a group of regional leaders, known as the trustees for the "Plan for Progress," met in a large circle of tables in a third-floor, glass-walled room at HCC’s Kittredge Center. The trustees are varied: heads of schools,...

Superintendent Burke on new teacher contract

by | Jan 3, 2007 | Urban Compass

At a Springfield Finance Control Board meeting on Monday, December 18, Springfield Schools Superintendent Joseph Burke presented information about the new Springfield Education Association teacher contract. Following is an excerpt, edited for brevity, of a transcript...

Oh great swami

by | Jan 3, 2007 | Ten Gallon Liberal

"Oh great swami," many people say to me, "what will happen in 2007?" And unto them I say: "I know not much. But I can guess a few things and see what sticks."Chief among those things is this: now that Democrats have managed to take both...

The boy can write, too!

by | Jan 3, 2007 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Dubya wrote an opinion column. Well, at least his name is on it. Shouldn’t they credit the starry-eyed Oral Roberts University grad or College Republican Lieutenant who no doubt saw this ghost-writing gig as his (uncredited) moment of Kool-Aid-fuelled glory?...