More public money won’t fix poor management of Des Moines schools, Des Moines buses
The Des Moines City Council raised our taxes by giving millions more to the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART) for its reimagination.
I saw the same three buses pass me with a total of one passenger between them. No real change has or will be attempted. If you are a loner, become a local bus driver, and you will make money while being alone!
As for the Des Moines school board’s reimagining of our school system, I’m sure of the same result. Polk County/Des Moines voters have never passed up an opportunity to raise their taxes. I will remind you of the school boards feigned shock at the half-billion-dollar tax increase their study showed the system needed, and by penny-pinching reduced it to a quarter billion. This is the same board that after getting tax money from residents told us that “by the way we are using part of that money to build a soccer stadium for Drake University.”…