Thursday, January 29, 2009
Gambling With Other People’s Money
UCF administrators have to pay for some past mistakes and future dreams. So, they are raising student fees.
Friday, January 9, 2009
So It Goes
The new offensive coordinator for the UCF football team has been arrested twice for drinking and driving.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Nicely Said, Part II
The Orlando Sentinel on Ray Sansom:
Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom did what he had to do Monday, the opening day of a special legislative session, resigning from an academic job that reeked of payback for delivering the legislative goods.
He had little choice, really. The $110,000 job with Northwest Florida State College was a legislative millstone for Mr. Sansom, who had used his political muscle to steer enormous sums to the small Panhandle college.
The Destin Republican still faces an ethics complaint, but if he truly wants to restore his credibility, he'll lead the charge to halt the growing practice of legislators taking plum jobs with government agencies, especially academic institutions.
We know, we know -- Florida doesn't have full-time legislators. They need to work. But Florida has a big private sector out there. There's local and federal government, too. State government isn't the only work around.
Now that Mr. Sansom has called it quits, Northwest Florida's trustees owe it to the public to hold the school president accountable. Bob Richburg was the one who got Mr. Sansom to do his bidding, and who offered Mr. Sansom a job without advertising it or interviewing other candidates. The president facilitated this embarrassment.
More likely, they'll congratulate Mr. Richburg, offer him a bonus and bemoan the nattering nabobs who halted their gravy train.
Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom did what he had to do Monday, the opening day of a special legislative session, resigning from an academic job that reeked of payback for delivering the legislative goods.
He had little choice, really. The $110,000 job with Northwest Florida State College was a legislative millstone for Mr. Sansom, who had used his political muscle to steer enormous sums to the small Panhandle college.
The Destin Republican still faces an ethics complaint, but if he truly wants to restore his credibility, he'll lead the charge to halt the growing practice of legislators taking plum jobs with government agencies, especially academic institutions.
We know, we know -- Florida doesn't have full-time legislators. They need to work. But Florida has a big private sector out there. There's local and federal government, too. State government isn't the only work around.
Now that Mr. Sansom has called it quits, Northwest Florida's trustees owe it to the public to hold the school president accountable. Bob Richburg was the one who got Mr. Sansom to do his bidding, and who offered Mr. Sansom a job without advertising it or interviewing other candidates. The president facilitated this embarrassment.
More likely, they'll congratulate Mr. Richburg, offer him a bonus and bemoan the nattering nabobs who halted their gravy train.
Good
From the Orlando Sentinel:
TALLAHASSEE - House Speaker Ray Sansom bowed to mounting pressure Monday and resigned his $110,000-a-year job at a Panhandle college, acknowledging the controversy over his role in steering millions in state dollars to the school before being given the position.
The Destin Republican had been under siege since news broke that he had accepted the job as vice president at Northwest Florida State College on the same day in November that he was sworn in as speaker. Sansom was to be paid $25,000 more than his predecessor, and the college didn't advertise the job.
It was subsequently disclosed that during the past two years, he had steered more than $30 million in state funds to the college, from which he and his wife graduated in the 1980s.
Like Evelyn Lynn, Sansom grudgingly acquiesced to political pressure. The media needs to keep watching these two because they are shady.
TALLAHASSEE - House Speaker Ray Sansom bowed to mounting pressure Monday and resigned his $110,000-a-year job at a Panhandle college, acknowledging the controversy over his role in steering millions in state dollars to the school before being given the position.
The Destin Republican had been under siege since news broke that he had accepted the job as vice president at Northwest Florida State College on the same day in November that he was sworn in as speaker. Sansom was to be paid $25,000 more than his predecessor, and the college didn't advertise the job.
It was subsequently disclosed that during the past two years, he had steered more than $30 million in state funds to the college, from which he and his wife graduated in the 1980s.
Like Evelyn Lynn, Sansom grudgingly acquiesced to political pressure. The media needs to keep watching these two because they are shady.
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