Trib editor Bill Slakey proves me wrong

I would have bet my house that the Trib didn't have the grapes to write about a real controversy in the APS.

And then there it is, right on tonight's front page.

It seems that there is a controversy over the name of the new high school.


According to Susie Gran and the Trib; after taking seven calls objecting to the name Tuesday, state Sen. James Taylor called Albuquerque Public Schools Deputy Superintendent Tom Savage to voice his objections.

"I've got people raising hell," said Taylor...
"There are a lot of names they could have chosen that would be better," ...

South Valley school board member Dolores Griego stood her ground saying, she thought Vista del Rio was beautiful. Adding ... you can see the river ....

The pressure from the powerful politico might be enough to make Savage and the rest of the senior APS administrators roll over on the naming committee; who probably thought they were actually naming the new high school, when they invested their time and effort.

What next Trib? an expose of corruption and incompetence?