Lisa Baldwin is somewhat of a local folk hero for shaking up the rubber stamp modus operandi of the Buncombe County School Board. The latest conflagration, to those emotionally damaged by her “threats,” involved a request for financial information. The powers that be whined that she subjected staff to twenty hours of research and threatened to seek her answers elsewhere if staff couldn’t assist. That she was able to get staff to respond to a request for financials for twenty hours is indeed an accomplishment, as I have never in my life gotten a straight answer from anybody by questioning funny numbers. Normally, nobody knows and nobody cares, delegated staff is trusted, I’m too dumb for anybody to explain it to me, I could always take a couple days off work to get the answers, or some totally irrelevant response is wielded confidently to publicly shame me. To deal with Baldwin’s sedition, her peers voted to require board members to submit any future request for data to the chairman, who will, in turn, act as the proverbial great coffee filter in the sky.