How is your bus service going on Friday compared to earlier in the week?

Wake County Superintendent Tony Tata said Tuesday that "most of the issues, I think, will improve each day and parents will see much shorter ride times and much more efficient bus service by the end of the week."

All this comes as school board chairman Kevin Hill has said the transportation problems will be discussed at Tuesday's board meeting.

Jon Sanders, writing in the Carolina Journal, has some choice words today for the UNC system and the very wordy commission it formed after some ugly graffitti threatening President-Elect Barack Obama appeared on the walls of N.C. State's Free Expression Tunnel.

A quick review: The UNC system has created the "UNC Study Commission to Review Student Codes of Conduct as They Relate to Hate Crimes." Just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?

The commission is tasked with determining whether A) the state's universities should adhere to a single policy related to hate crimes and B) whether all new public university students should go through mandatory diversity training.

Earlier this week, the commission held a public forum. More on that here.