Here’s my story from today’s front page — it’s a pretty fun one:

The Texas Education Agency has taken on a remarkable resemblance to a soap opera over the last week — with claims of mistaken identity, whispers about vendettas and a traditionally tight clan pulled apart.

Last week, internal investigators said they had found evidence that one of the agency’s top bosses, Robert Scott, was improperly funneling state contract money to his friends. On Friday, Mr. Scott fired back, issuing his own report that claimed investigators had confused him with a colleague of the same name.

TEA investigators vigorously denied his claims, which led to still another volley of charges and countercharges.

“I think they’re trying to dig themselves out of a hole,” Mr. Scott said of his agency’s investigators.

I leave it up to you, the reader, to judge whether the story would have been improved had my original opening been preserved:

No one has yet claimed amnesia, or a secret marriage to a sibling.

But otherwise, the Texas Education Agency has taken on a remarkable resemblance to a soap opera over the past week…

07 July 2007

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