Redeye's Week in Review and Rant

All politics is local. You won't read it in the Huntsville Times or see it on TeeVee but the Merts Center Monitor has the scoop on the past and present Superintendents, and one HCS Board members' travel expenses for non travel.

Did ex-Superintendent Ann Roy Moore travel 1455 local miles in June?

If not, once again, the Huntsville City Schools have paid money for nothing.

What do you want to bet if this were about a Councilman getting 40 dollars worth of gas for his daughter in the after math of a natural disaster or a school principal falsifying documents, or a high school football coach being arrested for drunken driving on campus this would be all over the news? Speaking of the fired Grissom High School football coach, check this out about the interim football coach;

Football coach resigns after five seasons at helm

Madison Academy became the fourth metro area school that is searching for a new football coach when Matt Clouser offered his resignation Friday after five seasons.
The Mustangs join Grissom, Bob Jones and Westminster in seeking a new coach.
"We'll start the search immediately,'' Madison Academy president Bob Burton said. "We'd like to have someone in place to go through spring practice.''
Burton said logistics was a key issue in Clouser's resignation. Clouser operates his own business, is not employed by the school as a teacher and couldn't get to the school until late afternoon.

Hmmmm. I wonder if they got that little issue worked out? See, this is why teacher tenure and due process is important, so employees can't be fired because someone in the community reports them being drunk on campus and replaced with cronies.

Talk about a waste of time. Ardent Terri Sewell fan, I mean supporter, LiA editor mooncat is longing to attend an issue forum sponsored by, the Congress Socialite, Socialite, I mean woman, during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Legislative Conference later this month, entitled Voting Trends in South in the Age of Obama where do we go form here? WTF? Psst Congresswoman Sewell, in light of the voter suppression laws being passed by southern governors, including your own, don't you think a better issue would be Dismantling the Black Vote? That's where we are going from here in the "age of Obama". And send mooncat a ticket. :)

Can't let the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina pass without comment. Six years after Katrina the battle for New Orleans continues.

The anger at the changes in New Orleans’ black community is palpable. It comes out at city council meetings, on local black talk

radio station WBOK, and in protests. “Since New Orleans was declared a blank slate, we are the social experimental lab of the world,” says Endesha Juakali, a housing rights activist. However, despite the changes, grassroots resistance continues.

I wonder how we can get a radio station like this to combat a radio station like this?

Despite the fact the USDA says food stamps kept more people from going hungry the republican governor of Michigan signs a 48 month welfare limit bill. Our resident righty HOPES Alabama's republican Governor follows suit despite the fact Alabama is number 1 in the nation of people on food stamps. I guess they want to people starve to death.

Rant over.