KVHD under FIRE...Re-constructive surgery

It's time to make a change, in strategy, while rapping up the last few years with a special pictorial slide show of events. COMING SOON....

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Gadfly--According to Wikipedia:

A gadfly is a person who upsets the status quo by posing upsetting or novel questions, or just being irritant. The term has been used to describe many politicians and social commentators.^{[citation needed]}
The term "gadfly"  was used by Plato in the Apology^[2] to describe Socrates' relationship of uncomfortable goad to the Athenian political scene.
During his defense when on trial for his life, Socrates, according to Plato's writings, pointed out that dissent, like the gadfly, was easy to swat, but the cost to society of silencing individuals who were irritating could be very high. "If you kill a man like me, you will injure yourselves more than you will injure me," because his role was that of a gadfly, "to sting people and whip them into a fury, all in the service of truth." This may have been one of the earliest descriptions of pragmatic ethics.
In modern and local politics, gadfly is a term used to describe someone who persistently challenges people in positions of power, the status quo or a popular position.^[3] For example, Morris Kline wrote "There is a function for the gadfly who poses questions that many specialists would like to overlook. Polemics are healthy."^[4] Oxford University professor Bent Flyvbjerg has talked about "gadfly social science," emphasizing a key role for social science in identifying and challenging the abuse of power, whoever the perpetrator and whoever the victim ^[5] The word may be uttered in a pejorative sense, while at the same time be accepted as a description of honourable work or civic duty.^[6]
The Book of Jeremiah uses the term in a similarly political metaphor. "Egypt is a very fair heifer; the gad-fly cometh, it cometh from the north." (46:20, Darby Bible)

On the next episode of KVHD under Fire! We're off to see the wizard of numbers, it's the September Finance "commit me" meeting

In this month's episode of the saga, "where did the money go," and "Honey, did you shrink the staff, again?" Chet Beedle, Chief Financial officer, tells the small group who shows up for these meetings, he paid for his own lunch this week.

After much applause, the group gets down to business, the reading of the financial documents prepared for the entertainment of insiders and the irritation of the outsiders.

It's read fast and furious as any lingering or hesitation could cause something terrible to happen: questions.

Treasurer, Bob Jamison, who rarely speaks, as he has slipped into the role of character actor and not "star," will give his usual line: "I already read it."

But our gadfly, who makes many guest appearances on the show, has a lot of questions this week as new information has surfaced.

The suspense comes when we find out if these questions will ever be answered. And those answers, will they ever make sense?

Tune in on Wed. at 9 am for the Kern Valley Healthcare District Finance Committee meeting where healthcare services, lives, and careers are always at stake...