It's been awhile since I've found anything outside Spokane that might be of interest to high school followers. But with football only four months away, here's something in the Seattle Times to note. The WesCo conference, north of Seattle, is splitting into three divisions for that sport only. That's the opposite of what the Columbia Basin League did when it created the 4A-3A frenzy down there. And of course, the GSL, which will be split nearly evenly between 4A and 3A schools next year is mainthttp://www.spokesmanreview.com/blogs/sport...

A year or so ago, I wrote about Sen. Ron Wyden’s, D-Ore., health care planâ€"a proposal alarming in its simplicity, feasibility and overall evenhandedness. Despite these liabilities, Wyden’s campaign is getting some traction, and is even airing the following ad, which calls attention to the most irritating part of our current health care system: the fact that, for most Americans with insurance, coverage is tied to the workplace. This tieâ€"a leftover from WWII wage controlsâ€"has the effect of stifhttp://www.insuremeblog.com/agent/2008/04/...

Apparently the teaching types are all in a flutter over an initiative at the University of Chicago Law School to ban the internet in the classroom (link). Perhaps because I am an internet junkie myself, I have never been much bothered by internet connections in the classroom. Last year I was riffing an off-the-cuff account of the career of Michael Milken when I remarked on how Ted Turner had paid him a “tip†of (as I said) “something like two million.†A voice in the back said “that’s nothttp://underbelly-buce.blogspot.com/2008/0...