READER BERNARD YOMTOV sends this link to a story from my own hometown — er, well, not far away, anyway. (Yeah, I get the Saturday paper, but I didn’t even open it yesterday.)

You can count on Union County to embarrass itself this way every few years, sadly. But my former student Margaret Held is on the case, and I expect she’ll clean their clocks.

However, if the facts are as this story indicates, this case may be ripe for a Justice Department civil rights investigation. How about it, General Ashcroft?