Eisner receives a rebuke
Disney Chairman Michael Eisner delivered his mea culpa last Tuesday to 11,000 shareholders at the Pond of Anaheim hockey arena, in a performance that won over most of the attendant journalists. “Shareholders voted overwhelmingly in Disney’s favor on every item on the agenda,” wrote the Orlando Sentinel reporter on the scene. Yes, about 89 percent…
Course correction
Will Charter schools make the grade in Orange County?;;Charter schools are about parents working harder for their kids’ education, says David Bowers, a parent at Windy Ridge Elementary in southwest Orlando; moreover, as one school improves, it will inspire others. “They’ll see that it takes parent participation to really make quality education,” he says. “It…
The Gospel according to the hammer
Millen, Ga.-Just west of the pine-dotted Savahhah River Valley, in a lonely clearing carved on rolling red plains, Hilda Dutrow and Willies Peter Holmes stand pointing at the place where Gay’s Hill Baptist Church burned to the ground on a spring night last year. The remains of the old Gay’s Hill Baptist have long since…
Welfare as we really know it
If hypocrits could fly, politicians would be jumbo jets.;;Last year, Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich, shouting that they were “ending welfare as we know it,” locked arms to shove hundreds of thousands of welfare mothers into the job market. Fine, welfare is a beaurocratic nightmare for those on it, and most welfare moms would prefer…
