Last August, when the presidential race was a toss-up and the the stock market was not yet gyrating, Barack Obama's campaign released this paper, which promised that as president he would create five million "green jobs."Not many, it seemed, would be in the recycling industry. The word "recycle" doesn't even appear in that 8-page paper. Probably because it's the one aspect of green living that Americans have mostly adapted to. Even in Broward County, which has an atrocious record for recycling,
Today's Herald quotes Broward school officials who say that in this year's budget talks, "everything is on the table." That might mean fewer high school sporting events or no more bus rides to magnet schools. Or even cutting one class out of the students' daily schedule. Desperate measures for desperate times, right?Right. So it will be fascinating to see whether in this climate of allegedly ruthless cost-cutting, Broward School Board members finally take a hard look at the district's trash bill
