Why I am Being More Active in the Legislative Session This Year
I’ve tried to sit back and hope that things within the public education landscape would improve. I strongly believe that at some point in time Mineral County School District will become a case study in a textbook. It seems like everytime I turn around, there is another shady deal from the District Office that occurs […]
Could Lombardo Inadvertently Save Mineral County School District?
Nevada elected a new Governor this year. His platform has been quite interesting when it comes to public education. Increase funding while also increasing transparency and accountability. One of his first acts was to ask all the school districts for their most recent audits. In doing so, he is going to have the Governor’s Finance […]
Why Getting Sick is Still Scary for Me
The reality of getting as sick as I did from Hope Blinco’s Mold Emporium is even now it still has a lasting imprint on my mind. I have to actively work to remind myself that not illnesses are a relapse. Sometimes I am just not feeling well. I never thought I would work somewhere that […]
What’s the Word on Budget Committees?
Is it just me, or does the reintroduction of Diane Rodriguez into the District Administrative lead to the same result? I had initially heard that budget committees would begin end of January, or early February. To date, I have not seen anything on the issue. The budget committee would have been a great opportunity even […]
Update on My Health
Every once and a while I have to take a step back and celebrate successes in addition to acknowledge the struggles that I continue to face. Almost a year later, I still have both to talk about. At least I can look at the struggles and still see some progress. An improvement has been my […]
Has Anyone Noticed the Trend?
At first, I thought that perhaps they were going to bid contracts that were not actually “sole/single source”, but then I saw that the new plan unfold. It seems odd since Diane Rodriguez has been involved in the district, more controversial items end up approved at a Schurz meeting where attendance is generally low. The […]
Why Does it Take so Long to Get a W-2 from MCSD?
I waited to blog on this because I thought maybe with the explosion of staffing at the District level things would change. I know know that they have not changed one bit. The staff remains held hostage by Hope Blinco. You see it is not that difficult to generate W-2s in the system. In reality […]
What is a Sole Source Justification?
I applaud the school for changing how they are handing out bags of cash to Diane Rodriguez on her zero accountability contracts. It was nice to see for a change there was some cost transparency. I am not certain what caused that change of heart, but at least we can now all see the heist […]
When Does a Heist Become a Robbery?
In education, the answer is when a rogue contractor gets to pencil in whatever amount they want without any performance metric. It also becomes a robbery when people are perfectly okay with diminishing the services to the staff and students. Diane Rodriguez is perfectly okay with diminshing services. The recent approval of the AB495 grant […]
How is Diane’s Consulting Actually Performing
One of the justifications used in the past to get Diane her public welfare checks is consulting on the grants program. Thanks to public record requirements, the state grants system is available to everyone. I decided to take a look at the grants to see how they are performing. To be honest, they are just […]