http://tonyturner.net Sat, 23 May 2009 01:58:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today was a good day at Vance Middle school.  With a standing room only crowd, I was thrilled to see so many students receive the recognition they deserve.  As a board member, we tend to get entranced with the day to day mundane tasks we have to do, but days ... http://tonyturner.net/2009/05/vance-honors-day-09/ I must admit today was humbling.  All of calls of support and congratulations was overwhelming.  Again thank you all for all of your support. Most of the things the Board of Education does goes unseen. We take our lumps and keep going.  We understand that with public service comes criticism and ... http://tonyturner.net/2009/05/the-day-after/ After a long day at the polls,  we did it.  I want to thank all of my supporters for their efforts.  This has been a long process which culminated in a very long day working the polls.  I got to talk to the voters and got to share this experience ... http://tonyturner.net/2009/05/we-did-it/ We had a brief update last night with the City Council about the budget.  We still do not have all of the details on the budget but we should get that Thursday night at our work session.  This means a long weekend.  Well that plus campaigning as much as possible.  ... http://tonyturner.net/2009/05/budget-paper-interview-and-early-voting/ Good afternoon all, After reading today's paper, I thought it might be a good idea for me to create a page on my site that will let me give you my thoughts on the current issues published in the paper.  My main motivation here is to give you the unfiltered, straight ... http://tonyturner.net/2009/04/current-issues-page/ Well, its finally over.  Not knowing what to expect tonight, I must confess that I had some apprehension about how the forum would turn out.  Fortunately, it went better than I had imagined.  I think we all did pretty well tonight.  Each of us had our moments but over all ... http://tonyturner.net/2009/04/candidate-forum-board-of-education/ Today I finally received my yard signs.  Hopefully you all will be seeing them out and about.  Of course if you would like to have one decorating your lawn, let me know.  I would appreciate any support I can get.  I am also printing other materials that I plan on distributing ... http://tonyturner.net/2009/03/campaigning-is-underway/ I would like to congratulate Dr. Gary Lilly for becoming our next Director of Schools.  It was an privilage for me to cast my vote for someone so dedicated to our system and community.  I will strive to support you any way I can as you lead us into the ... http://tonyturner.net/2009/03/director-of-schools-selected/