Now that I know Dr. Lewis is reading

First, as noted on the right hand column here, this is not an official web publication of Lancaster Today/Today Newspapers.

Second, an observation. I don’t get to have everything go my way, 100 percent, all the time. Nobody does. Jeff Melcher doesn’t get to be the Messianic savior of the school district. I don’t get to make $30,000 a year. (Sorry, folks who believe in the rich liberal media, but I don’t get to make $30,000 a year.) And superintendents — or city managers, or whomever in governmental positions — don’t always get news reported just the way they want, or every employee agreeing with them.

Third, to issues of more substance.

1. I have not focused on “just the negative” regarding LISD, in my opinion.

2. Where rumored information has turned out to be incorrect, and I have found that out, as with the cosmetology class, I have said so, and here.

3. In another case, with the grant and the trip to South Carolina, before I even got around to investigating that, a new poster to this blog provided what appears to be more accurate information, that this was a legitimate grant, even if some people “rode on its coattails.”

4. I never printed anything from this blog in Lancaster Today until confirmed first-hand.

5. I have also pointed out where, in my opinion, some posters to this blog have not just had wrong information, but wrong presuppositions or philosophical ideas.

6. When other people post comments of their own on comment threads, I’m certainly not creating the message myself. I’m not even the messenger, in fact; I’m the sounding board.

7. For which, I’ve had one person claim I’m “on the take” with district money and another person on “the other side” tell me on the phone I was “lying” about content not here, but on the newspaper’s editorial page.