Bill Robinson to the Principal's Office

For a practiced reporter, the job should be easy. What we have is another case in which the taxpayers are forced to sit and watch while the politicians diddle away their hard-earned money. Nothing new there.

In this case, it's our overlords school board in Lexington-Richland 5 that has gone ahead and decided to build a new elementary school for $16 million. Now, anyone who knows anything about local government knows that you don't spend that sort of money without someone getting their pocket lined. Contracters, developers, architects...these people have to eat. And working for the government means fat profits on the taxpayer dime.

Back to our story. The project is experiencing a logistical nightmare—SNAFUs bordering on FUBARs—as the parasites winning bidders try to milk the taxpayers for all they're worth.

A concerned citizen just might be interested in learning exactly who's robbing them. Of course, Bill Robinson never comes forth with the information on the identity of architects and contractors who are making big money at taxpayer expense. I mean, who cares about all of that?

Seriously, for Bill Robinson, I'd like to repeat the first rule of journalism: Who, what, where and why. If Jones kills Smith, you report all of that information. You don't say "there was a murder" and move on.

I swear that sometimes writing this blog feels like teaching remedial journalism to hospital patients recovering from blunt force head trauma.

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