Out in the cold
While my slacker behind has been writing about pretty flowers, my colleague Taft Wireback has been committing some real journalism. From a report he published last Friday:
School districts in parts of North Carolina are struggling with buses from High Point-based Thomas Built Buses that have such weak heating systems they leave students and drivers shivering whenever the weather turns cold.
Apparently, the state has taken notice. From today’s paper:
State officials expect to decide soon whether Thomas Built Buses should pay to improve ineffective heaters in hundreds of buses the High Point company made for school districts across the state.Officials in the state Division of Purchase and Contract plan to meet with their counterparts in the Department of Public Instruction to discuss a solution, said Ralph Edelberg of the state contract office.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I want to be Taft when I grow up.
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Posted on January 13, 2006 10:54 AM