Despite two full pages under "Schools"

Journal readers know nothing about the school board vacancy in APS District Seven.

Gordy Rowe is finally resigning formally.

His decision was announced on a Wednesday evening.

By Friday morning, the issue was on another school board meeting agenda as a discussion-action item. That means a long standing tradition of bringing an issue to the table in one meeting, and then taking action on the issue at a following meeting, in order to allow stakeholders meaningful participation,

was ignored.

The process began immediately. By the following Monday, there was already a process in place for soliciting candidates. Candidate, really, as in one.

The board wants to install Modrall lawyer Jon Barela. link.

The board needs to continue to obstruct an impartial forensic audit of the relationship between the APS and the Modrall law firm. The president of the APS and the president of Modrall are married to each other, much the same relationship between the APS and the Modrall.

The Modrall makes millions of dollars (unwitting tax payer support for "education") litigating exception to the law for senior APS administrators.

The leadership of the APS must do everything in its power, to obstruct an honest audit of the APS Modrall relationship. Upon that audit, senior administrators and board members will forfeit their reputations, their careers, and perhaps their freedom, as some of them may even go to jail.

The need to stack the board with board members
who lack either the character or the courage to begin an
honest audit of the leadership of the APS;
is born of their only hope to avoid an audit.

Nothing has been done to advertise the opening.
At most the Journal has admitted that there is one.

If you are not an insider, you don't know that an opening exists.
An opening, that in justice, should not exist at all. There is no reason to fill the long vacant seat of Gordy Rowe, by anything but a fair election.

Instead, the leadership of the APS intends to give Jon Barela an incumbent advantage in the election only a few months distant.

I have tried to get the minutes of the Friday meeting for several days. APS will not surrender them; nor will they post them on the internet.

Nor will the Journal inform stakeholders, and those who would be in the running, were it not for the Journal's steadfast support of the unscrupulousness of the leadership of the APS.

I attribute this to the personal corruption of the Journal's Charlie Moore and Kent Walz.

I have repeatedly informed them that I am writing that the Journal's steadfast refusal to investigate and report upon the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS, was apparently due to their personal corruption.

I have repeatedly offered them the opportunity to put any other explanation on the table. They never even had to identify themselves. They could have, and still can, offer the alternative explanation as an anonymous comment on this post.

Either or both could write;

The real and only reason that the Journal will not investigate and report upon incontrovertible evidence of corruption and incompetence in the leadership of the APS is; ________ .

But they won't.

Because there is no good and ethical explanation for their efforts to keep stakeholders in the dark.

Their position is indefensible.

So they are doing the only thing you can do with an indefensible position; you hide it.


The same can be said for the persons whose fists pound the table last, at KOB, KOAT, and KRQE.


cc Charlie Moore, Kent Walz, KOB, KOAT, KRQE upon posting.