Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Stoneham Runs The Ol' "Statue of Liberty" Play...

My latest for the Boston Herald is about taxpayers, overrides and student athletes:


In a functioning democracy, fear of a voter backlash would keep the School Committee from gutting school sports. They would be afraid that the people would express their own priorities at the ballot box in the next election.

But this isn’t a functioning democracy. It’s Massachusetts.


Read the rest here.