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Nov 162004
 

I’ve been trying really hard not to blog so much about politics, but I’m finding it hard to do. A line has been forming at the figurative door of W’s cabinet. I’m surprised that no one has been trampled on the way out.

It appears that Condi Rice will, in fact, be Colin Powell’s replacement. The Washington Post has a take on her appointment which is all but certain to be announced today. Jesse hits another issue with her taking the job. Between her taking the top job at the State Department and the chopping that Porter Goss, the new director of the CIA is perpetrating over there, I think we’re in for a lot more of what we saw over the last four years. While it’s clear that there need to be a shakeup in the intelligence community, it sounds like the people getting the axe are the ones that have tended to disagree with the Bush administration in the past. Once again, the Washington Post has quite a bit to say about Goss and Rice.

EDIT: It’s official. (*shudder*)

 Posted by on November 16, 2004 at 5:30 pm

Fool me once, shame on any parent who trusts this woman

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Nov 162004
 

Two different businesses charged with caring for Austin youth have gone out of business this year under shady circumstances. Both times, those businesses were run by Dolores Hillyer. First, there was the Texas Academy of Excellence, a charter school whose biggest claim to fame is that it’s the first one in Texas to file for bankruptcy. Now, there’s the Capital City Creative School-Capitol Complex, a daycare for state workers which shut down abruptly last week.

As a parent who has one child in daycare and another in a charter school, this pattern concerns me. We’re trusting that the people running those businesses have the best interests of our children and our families at heart and we’re trusting that they are competent enough to run their business. I don’t know how this woman keeps getting in a position of trust with the track record that she’s had over the past year (and even before that according to the Statesman story on the charter school). Since she already had control of the daycare when the charter school shenanigans came to light, I can understand how this might have been missed until now. I wonder if any parents at the daycare had suspicions once the charter school story broke earlier this year?

Bottom line: If you’re a parent in Austin, you’d do well to check out who’s running your daycare or charter school. If you hear the name Dolores Hillyer, run. Run very far away.

 Posted by on November 16, 2004 at 4:54 pm