Greetings, One and All ...
Welcome to another edition of the BAK Sunday Open Thread. Click through for news, views and items of interest from around the Great State of Baja Arizona.
First a tune …
Congratulations Bajamians!
If you’re reading this it means that you’ve survived another summer in the Sonoran Desert, quite an achievement. The weather has changed now. Many of us are actually venturing outside during daylight hours, hesitantly at first, but with growing confidence as the arc of the sun moves lower in the sky and temperatures moderate. October is just a week away and that can only mean one thing: It’s Kimchi Time! Some are experimenting with Sonoran Kimchi. I prefer the traditional kind myself, but whichever style of Kimchi you make, you know that it’s hard to get the stuff to ferment properly when the temperature never gets below 75°. October is also Festival Month in Baja, with various kinds of celebrations taking place every weekend all over the state. We’ll start with World Famous Rex Allen Days next weekend in Willcox. I don’t know if we’ll do Tucson Eat Yourself this year or not, but I always enjoy the Tucson Classics Car Show. They had a 917 there last year.
Education News …
UofA President Ann Weaver Hart will get an extra year's salary after she leaves office in 2017. She earns a base salary of $475K per. Outrageous salaries for administrators are the norm all over the country now.
Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, takes home over $3 million a year – about 140 times what an adjunct teaching a back-breaking eight courses would earn. The average pay for public college presidents was $428 000 in 2014. Some college sports coaches are paid as well, or even better: the 10 most highly paid college coaches in 2015 each earned more than Gutmann, with some bringing home more than $7 million.
That quote is from an article at Alternet: Heartbreaking Stories from Academia: America's Universities Treat Most Faculty Like Peons, and the Results Are Not Pretty. In K-12, the Weekly’s David Safier notes large donations to something called "TUSD Kids First”. The money is being used to influence the elections for TUSD board.
In other news …
Sarah Palin has sold her palace in Scottsdale and Mexican police have discovered a "drug cannon” in Agua Prieta. El Charro made a list of the 10 best Mexican restaurants in the US. If you haven’t been there in a while, their outside dining area and bar is really cool now. It might be a good place for a MeetUp when the weather is right. Here’s the latest from the Star on the races in AZ-01 and AZ-02.
That’s it for this week ...
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