Last week news broke that DeKalb County Superintendent Devon Horton was under federal indictment for giving no-bid contracts to his friends, accepting kickbacks and abusing his purchasing card while leading a Chicago-area school district. He was quickly placed on administrative leave, but now observers are wondering why he was ever approved (he came to Georgia in 2023) when some of the allegations were known BEFORE his hiring. The headache is just beginning for Horton, who is facing federal charges, but the headache seems like it could have been easily avoided by DeKalb school officials by just… NOT hiring a candidate shrouded in controversy. SINKING…
Carr joins LSU football fight
In the South, college football is religion – and now it’s politics too. Members of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) are furious with LSU over its attempts to sign players already in the NFL to come back to college to play for the Tigers. On Wednesday, Attorney General Chris Carr, (presumably at the behest of some big names at UGA) urged the SEC to take “all measures available” against LSU. Thursday, the league heeded that advice, suing LSU Head Coach Lane Kiffin. The legal quagmire pitting the conference against itself has LSU SINKING…
