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IDEA Public Schools may be public in name, but when it comes to public disclosure of expenditures, it’s now arguing through its attorneys that the price of travel taken by former IDEA administrators should remain private, as well as information regarding advertising costs paid to one particular vendor, the costs of school uniforms paid to one particular vendor, and whether or not the vendor that got the uniform job won it through an open bidding process, or was it just handed to it? There is also the question of IDEA administrators having any business interests in the vendors handed work by IDEA.

Ed. note: This story is sad beyond description. I don’t even want to envision what might have happened to the mother and her two precious children, one a teen, while driving back to Laredo. In next week’s Advance, we have an interview with one of the border’s top journalists with deep, deep Mexican sources. In next week’s interview, he speaks about what’s really happening south of the border, but he also makes reference to this sad story. He says that too many Americans are under the false impression that, “I’m an American citizen. I’m going to be safe in Mexico. And sadly that’s not the case anymore.” The cartels, he says, have just become that much more violent, that much more brazen. “And there are no consequences to their actions,” he says. For this family, all we can hope for is their safe return.

At first I thought so-called Constitutional Gun Carry wasn’t a great idea for Texans. After giving it some thought, though, witnessing the rise in indiscriminate shootings by crazy people, I decided it’s a law that should be on the books.