Reactionary, I’m glad you bring up overcrowding in certain Huntsville schools. Overall the schools are somewhere around 60-65% capacity. Overcrowding here isn’t a function of shortsighted construction of infrastructure, but rather a reticence to draw district lines in a wise manner. Dr. Moore and co. will use the federal court order as their excuse till the cows come home. I think it is just a convenient smokescreen to mask their incompetence.

But if the citizens of Enterprise want to tax themselves to build it, let them. I don’t have to pay Enterprise’s local taxes and next time I drive through, I can eat and gas up elsewhere.

I think that the cost probably includes some desirements, but planning for likely growth (Dothan’s growing, right?) isn’t bad, as illustrated by the new overcrowded-from-day-one Huntsville High School.

“Now it’s up to Reese and the Enterprise City Council to find what they can raise — or what they can cut — to make up the $38 million difference.”

Nothing unreasonable about that approach (re: school superintendent wants more taxes - it would be news if he said he didn’t). Maybe they can get Con-Agra to sponsor their Taj Mahal.