The Beat Goes On

Thu. May. 28th, 2015  |  Loren Martell

Fight without end.

Points of Friction

Wed. Jun. 24th, 2015  |  Loren Martell

It wouldn’t have surprised me to find a blackboard set up behind the Board dais, and Chair Seliga-Punkyo forcing the two censured bad boys to do some public punishment before the meeting began.

Have We Learned Anything?

Thu. Aug. 20th, 2015  |  Loren Martell

The mainstream media had been in the boardroom all along of course, acting sort of like a baseball play-by-play guy blandly covering the sinking of the Titanic: “The ship seems to be listing a bit, Joe. I wonder if it’ll affect Johnston’s swing?”

Pearl Was Right

Wed. Dec. 16th, 2015  |  Loren Martell

Some board members want to have a real discussion about what state the Red Plan has left the district in. They are convinced that no real solution can be found without an honest and open assessment of the problem.

Pearl Was Right

Wed. Dec. 30th, 2015  |  Loren Martell

I know the happy talkers of this town want to believe otherwise, but you can’t have every promise made in the selling of a half billion dollar capital project go south, and then just blithely declare it “over.”

School Board Redux

Thu. Jan. 28th, 2016  |  Loren Martell

same skit, new cast

Let’s Keep It Positive!

Thu. Feb. 11th, 2016  |  Loren Martell

Most school boards have Policy Committees and the board of ISD 709 desperately needs one. One of the primary problems causing all the boardroom dysfunction for years has been the slipshod application of policy.

Stick with the Agenda!

Thu. Mar. 17th, 2016  |  Loren Martell

Voices of Democracy

Sat. Apr. 2nd, 2016  |  Loren Martell

Central Issue

Thu. Apr. 7th, 2016  |  Loren Martell

“The fear is real that Edison would become so successful at the Central High School site that eventually ALL students would want to go there, leaving ISD 709 with no high schools.”