Late Breaking News

Sources close to the Governor are preparing folks for his upcoming decision regarding the DeKalb County School Board. He will remove the board and in an effort to defuse at least some of the legal challenges he intends to remove the entire board and will not reappoint any sitting members including those recently elected. The calculus is not just political but is in part based on the observation that all of the current board members are "duly elected and reflect the desires of the voters thereby laying the responsibility for the current failures clearly at their [the voter's] feet." This has undermined any belief that those most recently elected are any better than those they join or those they have replaced.

There are also credible reports that the Governor has narrowed his choices for replacements to twelve and will be making the final selections this evening. All candidates are considered capable but some concern has been voiced regarding the fact that all are male and all are white. In discussions of the political consequences the Governor is reported to have said that DeKalb is a train wreck and "I'm getting the best people I can to fix this and I'm not going to apologize for their gender or their race--we're getting this done. I'm sorry this has to happen in February--I'm sensitive to the timing--but quite frankly I can hear MLK spinning in his tomb over what folks in DeKalb, using his legacy, have done to those children--the grandchildren of the Civil Rights movement."