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Acting city manager Troy Schulte’s strong suit — command of the city budget — fits the city’s needs in tough economic times. Schulte has served as the city’s budget director since late 2003. Generally respected by the city staff and City Council members, he has a deserved reputation for being a straight shooter in providing accurate figures to the public. In 2008 and 2009, he performed well while prodding city leaders to more aggressively trim costs. He supported needed plans, later approved, to cut several hundred jobs at City Hall.
The courts will eventually determine what happened on Burrell Mohler Sr.’s rural Bates City farm. But one thing has become abundantly clear as this horrifying story unfolds: The investigation into alleged sexual abuse of children is a decade or more overdue. There is no excuse for the lack of serious investigation of accusations of this nature once they passed beyond the family.
It will take a substantial change in policy for this nation to overcome its appalling school dropout problem, but maybe the place to start is coming up with a good slogan. Something along the lines of “Buckle Up!” or “Don’t Drink and Drive.” What’s needed is a pitch that fundamentally changes our perception of dropping out, that highlights what it really is: a drain on society.
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