APS Police Chief Gil Lovato under investigation, finally.

Albiquerque Public Schools has its own police department. I do not know how rare that is - but in this case, our Albuquerque public schools watcher Chedd McQuigg has been watching the APS very closely since he became a member. He has been consistently critical of issues of...

Nature abhors a vacuum

If in public service there is a vacuum of accountability, who rushes in to fill it? Will it be filled by those who support and will submit to honest accountability? Having filled the vacuum, who will they then allow to join them; those who support and will submit to honest...

I guess we just won’t ask

With the removal of the public forum from school board meetings, the forum is no longer on the record; questions asked during the forum can now be ignored with impunity. Stakeholders can no longer expect answers to questions like: • Why did the board unnecessarily renovate...

APS school board candidate bounced from Board Meetings.

It had to do with a dispute over parliamentary authority. Board Policy B.14 Parliamentary Authority Roberts' Rules of Order, newly revised, will govern the Board of Education, except when state regulations prevail. …Actual procedures will be left to the discretion of the...

There's a school board election ahead

Yesterday, all of the school board candidates had an opportunity to meet with representatives of the unions of the people who tend to the needs of 98,000 of our sons and daughters every day in school. I promised them a seat at the table where decisions are made. The same...

Ben Franklin: “Force shites upon reason's back.”

By which he meant I think; if the demands of Reason and Power conflict, Power prevails. It is true, still. In what must be among the oddest of ironies, the laws supposed to protect us from the abuse of power, do not apply to the powerful. Next Thursday night, the APS School...

Miller denies Dylan 'defamation'

The Trib: APS renovation costs going up

The question is not so much whether a new boardroom is worth $625,920; as it is; should we be spending that much money unnecessarily; when there are so many other more important needs? Lest you worry that your representatives on the board are not on top of things; Gordon...

The burden of proof falls reasonably upon whom?

I aver; the leadership of the APS offers no opportunity to be held accountable for their character or their competence. And further, that that is proof of mal, mis, and non feasance as public servants; and as role models for 98,000 of our sons and daughters. Am I to prove...

I’ll mail twenty bucks

to the first person who posts an ethical explanation of the Albuquerque Journal and Tribune’s failure to investigate or report upon the APS ethics and accountability scandal. Diogenes’six

Mayor Chavez, tell the Journal and Tribune to tell the truth

 Sir,If your interest is in accountability for APS Leadership, and not in empire building, tell the papers to tell the truth.  Allow stakeholders to decide whether to replace the current leaders with those who will hold themselves honestly accountable to a...

APS sez: the heck with public input

The public forum is no longer on the agenda of meetings of the APS Board of Education. The Board and Superintendent do not want the broadcast version of the truth to include their individual refusal to be held honestly accountable for their character or their...

APS Ethics scandal; more proof

There is evidence of a deliberate distortion of the truth in the broadcast version of ten public forums; the forums during which the school board members and superintendent each refused to hold themselves honestly accountable to a meaningful standard of conduct. If you...

APS Board hides its misconduct

During the last board meeting, the Public Forum was moved 'outside of the APS board meeting" by putting it before the agenda. By their reasoning, the record of the public forum could then be edited from their “broadcast version of the truth”. And their constituents would...

APS “Ethics scandal”

So far as I know, I am the only person using the phrase, ethics scandal; is it fair, is it responsible, is it ethical? You tell me. Clearly the word ethics is used correctly. The issue is the ethical accountability of the Leadership of the APS. Is there scandalous...