Education: Priorities changing in right direction

Well, at least in Seattle there's evidence priorities are changing.

Residents defeated a multimillion dollar stadium for the Sonics, the professional basketball team. The effort was led by Citizens for More Important Things (great name huh?).  The group's priorities: schools, transportation projects and health care  (pretty much the 21st century infrastructure).

Chris Van Dyk of Citizens told the New York Times that he openly disdains welath people who buy professional teams, pay huge salaries to players and then demand handouts. Owners like that are no better than "the neighborhood crack cocaine dealer." 

Big fall for corporate chieftans from moral civic business leaders down to the level of crack dealers, we would say.  That also an indication of the growing cry for more balance in wealth distribution. Two good signs.