A political action group formed two years ago to help elect a slate of candidates to the Amarillo City Council is back at it. Amarillo Matters, which comprises some well-funded, well-known and successful business and civic leaders, is working to re-elect the council members it helped elect in 2017. They’re all running for re-election this … Continue reading Amarillo still ‘Matters’ to this group
I had been wondering whatever became of Amarillo Matters, a political action group formed early this year to campaign for a slate of City Council candidates. A High Plains Blogger post posed the question: Where have they gone? https://highplainsblogger.com/2017/11/just-wondering-amarillo-matters-where-is-it/ I have some news. Amarillo Matters has re-emerged. It’s not exactly a scoop, but I’ll take … Continue reading Amarillo (still) Matters
Just when you think the world has gone mad and that the MAGA crowd is taking over our way of life … you hear about a Texas city where voters exercised their good judgment and put the brakes on the MAGA juggernaut. Amarillo, where I once lived and worked, showed the nation how a community … Continue reading Sanity rules in Amarillo
I won’t take credit for this idea. It comes from a reader of this blog and a frequent critic of local government in Amarillo, Texas. My friend wonders whether the Amarillo Independent School District board of trustees should examine carefully its policy of declining to comment on “personnel matters” when the matter involves an elected … Continue reading How must governments define ‘personnel’ matters?
Where does the Amarillo Independent School District stand now that another elected school board member has packed it in? Renee McCown, an embattled school trustee who got caught up in a controversy stemming from the resignation of a popular high school volleyball coach, has resigned. Her seat on the seven-member board is empty. McCown became … Continue reading Amarillo public school system needs to turn the corner
I awoke this morning in Collin County not knowing what to expect when I searched for results from Saturday’s vote results way up yonder in Amarillo. Then I saw it: Two Amarillo school trustee incumbents lost their bids for re-election, which I hope means a potential change is in the works for the way the … Continue reading Amarillo school voters sending a message to district?
Amarillo Independent School District has been roiled in recent weeks by a controversy involving the resignation of a popular coach of a highly acclaimed high school athletic program. As it turns out, the school district is now getting ready for a school board election on May 4 that shows two incumbents — Jim Austin and … Continue reading Amarillo ISD coach controversy faces stern ballot test
They came, they saw and some of them spoke out — almost unanimously in favor of a high school volleyball coach who walked away from one of the plum jobs in Texas high school athletics after only a single season. The Amarillo Independent School District Board of Trustees held its first meeting of 2019. It … Continue reading Amarillo ISD, you have a problem
The beans apparently have been spilled over the identity of the parent who harassed Amarillo High School girls volleyball coach Kori Clements enough to make her quit a plum coaching job after just one season. Renee McCown, that would be you. Or so it appears. Oh, brother. This is likel to get ugly. You see, … Continue reading Amarillo is showing how it is so ‘tightly bound’
If I were a betting man I’d wager damn near all I had on how the next Amarillo Independent School District Board of Trustees meeting is going to unfold. My strong hunch is that a young volleyball coach, Kori Clements, will be Topic A on the minds of a large crowd of spectators gathered in … Continue reading Get ready for an assault, Amarillo ISD Board of Trustees