Friday Open Thread
A few updates: One - with less than 8,000 votes to count statewide, I-1240 appears to have passed . (I'm sure it's true but I'm not the Secretary of State and in a position to officially call it.) The margin appears to be 1.36% of the vote which is just under 41,000 votes. A win for sure but certainly no mandate. Two - Thanks to SPS Leaks for some very illuminating reading. To whit: Lynne Varner gets it wrong in an Times editorial and SPS gently points this out to her. I note that Varner says "sources" told her certain things about the departure of Superintendent Enfield. So, as you see, journalists have sources and they don't reveal them (and sometimes not even by the order of a court) and that's how it goes. (I, of course, still contend that I am not a journalist but I have sources. I do get my hand slapped occasionally by readers demanding to know my source. Not revealing them is how you keep your sources.) Thre...