Priorities

While I'm making sure I understand today's news, let me pause to get this right as well. Concerned parents in Chapel Hill, NC, come to the local county commissioners and beg for a tax hike to fund public education in their school district.

Karl Knapp, the parent of two children in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, said the budget's priorities were wrong. "The choices that we make in spending define what we consider to be important," he said. "As I look though the budget, I wonder if education continues to be important to our community."

And Mary Katharine Ham sees this as something to deride and ridicule? Heaven help us.