Well, it's HARD to "get the facts" about the LISD bond plans.

The CorganSchools.com sponsered website is still only a placeholder, as of this moment.

The district's own website continues to showcase a "frequently asked question" document that raises more questions than it answers. (Unless the apparently mis-punctuated sentence fragment answering the frequently asked question: Can the proceeds of the bond be used to purchase the 18 acre tract of land on the corner of Wintergreen Road and Dallas Avenue? is intentionally declarative: Money for land purchases for future school sites will be

Personally I don't believe the LISD "Team of Eight" has a long enough attention span to sustain a really juicy conspiracy. Quite the reverse ... the Questia e-library project goes from an unknown to the greatest-thing-since-sliced-bread in less than two weeks. A seat at a Jazz concert next to a TV personality generates a dream of "Enterprise City" in even less time. And kids in Lancaster go from comptuer illiterates who NEED laptops to become competive to computer-using naturals of the 21st century who know all about laptops even without instruction in less time than it takes to run a campaign. People who can't keep any better focus than that probably are plodding along according to deep laid plots.

But if there WERE a plot, it seems to me that the timing of the beer and wine election and the school bond would have been convenient. I mean, assuming somebody really had a vision of making the high school stadium into a city venue for professional sporting events -- soccer, minor-league football, pro javelin tossing, whatever. It just seem that fans at pro sporting venues like to drink beer. But Lancaster is, currently, dry. SO, the first step to getting a pro event into a public school facility would be getting a beer permit.

The hotel, resort, tavern, saloon and casino all would follow along naturally. And who would object? Sin Taxes are the most popular source of school financing -- the lottery already and cigarettes next year. Why NOT tax pro soccer players who come to the vo-tech high school hotel -- and the fans who buy and guzzle the beer at Tiger Stadium?

Silly, really. But all the district has to do to cut off such ridiculous speculations is admit that the whole "Moulin Rouge" thing is a side show. A distraction from the real business of teaching kids. That hotel jobs DON'T require an IB diploma, and that kids capable of an IB curriculum have more and better opportunities than clerking, waitressing, or bartending at some Vegas-style resort.

Margie Waldrop, or her husband, could come out and explain that their deals broke down and the wealthy heirs who control the foundation who own that property have backed out of the deal. That would end speculation. (And it would be consistant with the recent news about how Steve Topletz, of DB Horton, Adante, and the Lancaster "Boardwalk" development recently backed out of a land deal with the Haney Golf Course people ... I wonder, even if you trust the LISD to buy land next to Boardwalk for one of the new elementary schools, do you trust Steve Topletz to SELL that land? Interesting discussion to come next Monday...)

Or Ellen Clark, also a realtor, could come out and discuss where the best place in Lancaster might be for a new hotel -- and whether or not the site next to the High School is suitable and likely. This is a "fact" within her area of expertise. (For a change) We might find her plausible on the matter.

But.

Say a large wealthy architectural firm wanted to design a big fancy signature hotel ...

Oh, let's not be silly.