This is one of my favorite caps. I don't wear it often enough, but I think it's time to dust it off and wear it. After all, who could not want to Make America Great Again?
It's time to take action, folks, before that guy in The White House pushes this country past the point of no return. Biden and the Left are trying to destroy the U.S.A.
Our schools should be the front line to teaching students how to think, not what to think.
I don't get into political things too often here, but, if you donate to MedicareforAll or ActBlue.com, you'll want to read this carefully. Or, if you know any died-in-the-wool Democrats who might donate to them, pass this along to them.
Recently, I helped a friend resolve some tricky financial problems. When I reviewed her credit card statements, I noticed some (many) transactions involving Medicareforall and ActBlue.com
She explained that she had made occasional, small, one-time donations.
I asked, "So what are all these?
We called her credit card company, and there were 144 transactions for over $1,300, many on the same day, two for $125, and one for $250. Her credit card company reversed all of them.
She will be writing to ActBlue's new CEO/President, Regina Wallace-Jones, and sending copies to the FBI, SLED, and the Attorneys General in South Carolina, Massachusetts (ActBlue's headquarters), and New York.
If you know anyone who might have donated, urge them to review their credit card statements very carefully for the past six months (or more).
And review your statements as you prepare to make your payment. Often, there is a limited period for challenging fraudulent transactions.
I have long said there is a real danger in receiving only e-Statements from credit card companies. Customers often just look at the minimum-payment due and don't inspect the transactions.
If you don't pay off your balance in full every month, check the interest rate (buried at about Page 4 of your statement) and understand what that little "(v)" means. That 29.99% interest rate on your balance is PLUS Prime Rate, so you are actually paying over 37% interest.
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How much is Richland 2 paying for a staff member to produce this title screen for a board meeting?
And, worse, nobody caught it and corrected it after Tuesday, January 31?
Is this the work of the Media Relations Department?
Somebody once said, "Don't sweat the small stuff." And somebody else said, "It's all small stuff."
Well, if people can't do the small stuff right, how are they ever going to do the big stuff right?
WLTX.com (News 19) reported today that a 15-year-old at Blythewood High School had a gun at school.
How absolutely stupid.
What's wrong with kids these days?
The Principal should recommend expulsion.
The Superintendent should approve it.
The Board should meet for two minutes and approve it.
No excuses. No explanation. Zero tolerance. Assuming the student is male, out he goes on his backside.
Charge him as an adult and release his name and photo.
The Trustees of Richland School District Two are doing a great job. They have hit the ground running.
They are actually doing something. Yes, there is a learning curve. Yes, some of them are catching up on parliamentary procedures. Yes, some of them don't have a corporate background or a financial background. But they are working hard and they are working together.
They are putting in many hours on behalf of the students, staff, teachers, and the public. And they aren't complaining. They aren't running off to WIS-TV or The State newespaper.
Note the unanimous decision to accept Baron Davis' resignation.
Will the public accept that it was a true resignation? Davis doesn't strike me as a guy who would get forced to do anything. Was his resignation negotiated? If so, why not?
Some have written on Facebook about "discrimination" and "forced resignation". Where could the discrimination come from? Do those wags mean "racial discrimination"? Do they realize that five of the trustees are black?
This board (the one since Nov. 21, 2022) is color-blind; i.e., they are not making decisions based on race or color. They made a business decision to accept Davis' resignation.
So, why did he resign? Did they ask him if he would follow the directions of the board? What was his answer?
The terms of his resignation are not yet public. We'll probably all be surprised at the terms. How much will he be paid for leaving that board meeting unemployed? Somewhere between pay to the end of the school year (6½ months) and $1,180,000.
What does an Interim Superintendent do?
It's a temporary position. Very temporary.
Nancy Gregory is the INTERIM Supt. She's not there to do anything but turn the lights on and off and try to keep RSD2 from running further off the rails, until the Board can hire a new full-time Supt.
Does she have the skill set to run a business with $1 Billion in Assets and a $300,000,000 annual budget?
Didn't Baron Davis create any management depth to the Administration? Every major position should have a back-up ready to go, in the event of a resignation, firing, retirement, disability, or death.
In his side-gig, The Noegenesis Group, wouldn't he train businesses to do that? Did he do it in the business that paid him more than $240,000, while he maintained several outside income streams?
His 2022 Statement of Economic Interests, available at ethics.sc.gov, discloses his $241,191 income from Richland 2 in 2021, plus his $18,000 car allowance. The value of perks, such as life, health and disability insurance, expense account, and retirement plan contributions, are not disclosed. And it reveals his side jobs:
The Noegenesis Group (his own private consulting business), which 14 months ago could be found at www.noegenesisgroup.com;
University of the Cumberlands;
University of South Carolina ($14,000).
