4/17/2011: Les Zaitz of the Oregonian has just wrapped up a great 5 part retrospective on the Rajneeshee movement in Oregon. The Oregonian is a consistently interesting newspaper with an excellent website.
Meanwhile the 4J school board has stabbed the 4J teachers and the supporters of a Eugene income tax in the back, by first giving a fat compensation package to the incoming Superintendent, and then arguing that they had to give the same to the outgoing one, out of fairness. From the RG editorial:
Berman starts off making significantly more than retiring Superintendent George Russell is being paid after 12 years on the job. Russell topped out last year at just less than $150,000, a figure that was reduced this year by 10 days of unpaid furlough. The implication is that either Berman will be paid too much, or that Russell has been paid too little. To address the imbalance, the school board will make a one-time contribution to Russell’s tax-sheltered annuity equal to the two superintendents’ difference in base pay — $35,838, under Berman’s tentative contract terms.
Fairness to whom – not the teachers, students, or taxpayers. Whose interests does the board represent?
Thanks for bringing the piece on Rajneesh to our attention. It’s readable and very well researched. Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction.
Glenn May
For those keeping up on the DPS and the bill to make them cops it looks as though it is going to a vote tomorrow when the bill gets read. Thanks for the link to the sit so people can follow this bill. The fiscal impact statement says minimal impact but the budget has increased how much????? Wolf in sheep’s clothing.