All Write-ups

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Who's Needed On The School Board: Oct 9, 2008. Discussion of some of the qualities needed in school board candidates.

Superintendent's 2008 Evaluation: Sept 23, 2008. Discussion of Superintendent's evaluation, contract extension and pay.

It Is Time To Re-evaluate: Jun 25, 2008. It is time to re-evaluate the Superintendent and her long-term plan.

School District Audit: Jan 16, 2008. A look at how fast school district spending grew last year.

Inflation On The Rise: Jan 1, 2008. Inflation is rising because our leaders no longer fear it.

Test Scores To Focus On: Jan 1, 2006. The student test scores that best reflect how our children are doing in school.

Character And Values Are Both Important: Dec 13, 2007. We must teach students character and values.

Pickens High School Location: Nov 27, 2007. Discusses the selection for the location of the new Pickens High School.

High School Capacity: Nov 11, 2007. Discusses the school board meeting where the new high schools' capacities were voted on.

Inefficient Use of Time & Money: Oct 29, 2007. Discusses how school district leadership wastes taxpayer money and teacher time.

We Need Open Govt: Oct 1, 2007. Discusses the Pickens County School Board/ District's move away from open government.

Act 261 of 1981 Uncovered: Aug 1, 2007. Discusses the spending cap that was put on the school board in 1981.

Four Challenges: Jul 1, 2007. Discusses four challenges the Pickens County School District faces.

Superintendent's Pay Raise: Jul 1, 2007. Discusses the Superintendent's surprise pay raise and contract extension.

Entertainment Industry "Ingredients" Jul 2, 2007. When are we going to question Hollywood's ingredients?

Lottery Money: Jun 21, 2007. This write-up tells you where the lottery money is going.

Tax Swap & Tax Hike: Jun 2, 2007. Discusses how the state tax swap, and the school board property tax hike will affect you.

School Board Design: May 14, 2007. Discusses the current school board design.

Library Book Removed: March 10, 2007. Alex Saitta explains why he voted to remove "Fat Kids" from the library shelf.

Vision 2025 Part II: Feb 28, 2007. Dennis Reinert expresses his concerns about the financing of Vision 2025.

Vision 2025 Part I: Jan 5, 2007. Dennis Reinert gives us his take on Vision 2025. What's it all about and who's behind it?

Greenville Plan -- Colleton Ruling: Dec 15, 2006. Explains the Supreme Court ruling on the Greenville Plan.

Greenville Plan: A Better Way: Dec 12, 2006. Explains the Greenville Plan, and a better way.

Final Thoughts Reassessment Overcharge: Sept 23, 2006. Discusses school board actions and reassessment law.

Reassessment Overcharge Spent: Aug 29, 2006. Discusses how the school board spent the reassessment overcharge.

How To Protect Local Control Of Budgets: Jul 22, 2006. Simple, better financial management of those budgets.

Tax-Swap Law Explained: Jul 16, 2006. Detailed explaination of the new sales tax/ property tax law.

School Tax Data: Jun 13, 2006. School District tax data and analysis since 1992.

Extra Pay Raise Vs. Buildings: Apr 24, 2006. Do we use new revenue for an extra pay raise or fixing school buildings?

Baby Boom And School Funding: Mar 1, 2006. Boom's preference changing from schools to medical care.

Wicked Ways Of The North: Jul 25, 2005. Greenville Plan not invented in Greenville, but in New York.

Greenville Plan Coming To Pickens: Jul 12, 2005. Discusses the borrowing scheme the Pickens School Board is considering.

Path To Economic Crisis: Jun 27, 2005. Discusses all the public and private debt in this country.

Morals & Values: Dec 26, 2004. The decline of morals and values in this country and how it is hurting our ability to teach our children.

Merry Christmas, Not Happy Holidays: Dec 13, 2004. Secularists are taking Christ out of Christmas. How you can stop it.

Productivity -- Economic Magic: Sep 1, 2004. Why increasing productivity raises wages and profits, and lowers the price of goods.

Libel: July 28, 2004: Discusses the definition of libel, something everyone should keep in mind when posting to message boards.

Think About Your Vote: May 30, 2004: Don't allow your leaders to make the same mistakes that they made up north.

Gay Activists' Smears and Distortions: May 3, 2004. Smears and distortions homosexuals are using in the gay marriage debate.

Capitalism Vs Socialism : Mar 13, 2004. Now you'll know a capitalist and socialist enterprise when you see one.

Targeting Our Children: Feb 29, 2004. This write-up discusses how gay activists are our targeting our children, in order to sell their lifestyle.

Income Taxes: What Sanford Is Thinking: Jan 27, 2004. Why the income tax is the most destructive tax of the big three.