“…I think privatization and choice programs will grow massively at the state level. We’ll have poor schools with declining budgets for the poor inner-city kids and rural kids, largely made up of kids of color…
Posts Published by Douglas Storm
Douglas Storm is a host and producer for Interchange on Bloomington, Indiana's community radio station WFHB.
"Why then do you try to 'enlarge' your mind? Subtilize it..."
What’s In a Name? School District as Corporation
“It rocks the core of education and what we’ve been accustomed to. From the changes in collective bargaining to teacher/principal evaluations, merit pay and changes in the immigration laws, it’s just been one thing after…
Higher Ed Privileges and Rewards Business Ed
I was looking at the HT database of salaries for Indiana University employees and discovered something interesting: a lot of people at IU make a lot of money. Nearly 1,000 employees make over $100,000.00 per…
A Big Secret: Democracy Doesn’t Exist
Listen, come closer…closer…that’s it. I have a secret. Democracy does not exist. Why not? So many reasons! But let’s focus on Democracy first by defining it and then use a recent national example of something…
Unrepresentative–HT Sides with GOP While Our Community Suffers
Opening the Herald Times this morning brought frustrating political and fiscal news as well as a deeply wrong-headed editorial. Where to begin? Local Income Tax Revenue to drop in ’12: well, there’s a shocker though…
Radical Reading–Against Preemptive Killing
HT headline today: Prosecutor’s office rules police shooting justified. Article details of note: Though the prosecutor’s office has ruled, the police are investigating themselves. Lt. William Parker is charged with this. The man, Richard North,…
Alone in America
Yesterday a Bloomington man with a long criminal history took his wife hostage by holding a gun to her head and walking with her down Rogers Street. He was apparently agitated enough, shaking his gun…
Voter Registration as Segregation
I offered the following as a Letter to the Editor in response to a Guest column in this morning’s HT, and also posted a portion as commentary online (scoring a minus 2 so far). The…
I Pledge Allegiance to the Gun, And to the Republic for which It Stands…
A friend of the Errant, Steve Hinnefeld at School Matters (a great local school politics blog), posted a link to an opinion piece by Matthew Tully at the Indianapolis Star calling for a rational talk…
Gold Crush: Cowboys, Aliens and Filthy Lucre
While Cowboys & Aliens has its issues, it doesn’t pit good humans against bad humans (except as a local particularity). It doesn’t glorify war, and perhaps tries to do the opposite; it presents weapons as…