Oklahoma: May 2008 Archives
Oklahoma voters need a way to dump lousy school board members. Case in point: Dennis McCord, president of the Welch School Board, who has been banned from school property by the superintendent for being a Sports Dad from Hell, cussing out coaches and threatening the superintendent over his kids' playing time. Despite censures from his fellow board members, McCord refuses to resign and nothing can be done to force him out, short of a criminal conviction. (Via Welch alum Tyson Wynn.)
Yet Another Small Town Moment: Who was "Red" Burpo anyhow?
A touching remembrance of the town mechanic: "Every small town in the world must have one of these guys...long ago retired from the rat race of small business, the old motorhead now spends the salad days of his winding down life clock watching the world drive by, anticipating a stray customer or acquaintance of old to drop by at anytime to shoot the breeze, share a stick of Clark's Teaberry or perhaps even seeking advice of an auto maintenance matter."
