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Hard To Justify Upgrading Fair Funding Membership

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It's understandable that, as the state's largest school district, USD 259 wants a place at the table during discussions about another possible school-finance lawsuit. But deciding at this time to become a full, voting member of Schools for Fair Funding — which the school board is considering at its meeting tonight — would make the district appear insensitive to the thousands of Kansans who have lost their jobs and to the other state programs and agencies that have had their budgets cut by much larger percentages. It's also hard to justify spending an additional $60,000 to upgrade the district's affiliate membership when it has so many other unmet needs.

Obama wasted a tool of persuasion

If President Obama were President Johnson, he would have used his signature on the spending bill that included $32 million for the proposed National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan as leverage over Kansas Sens. Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts. Kansas City Star columnist Steve Kraske noted that "Johnson, the master pol, would have demanded something: a tough vote, more cooperation or fewer criticisms in exchange for his help on something as major as NBAF." Instead, Obama recently signed the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill.

Late-night laughs

* "In one short year, Obama's slogan has gone from 'Yes, we can' to 'Wow, this is freakin' hard.' " — Conan O'Brien

* "One year later, we're still in Iraq. We're still in Afghanistan. But, you know, at least we got rid of Paula Abdul." —David Letterman

* "The White House predicted there would be 120 million doses of swine flu vaccines available today. But right now, there are only 26 million. Yeah, they overshot by so much, they are all getting jobs as pilots for Northwest Airlines." —Jimmy Fallon

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