If a school principal had to give pupils a warning about their behavior prior to their bus leaving school, it’s probably a safe bet that those kids bear at least a little responsibility for that driver having to pull over and cool off during the ride home.

After that fateful ride last week, some Euchee Creek Ele-mentary parents complained about the driver’s behavior based on tales from their children. Some of that carries the self-serving whine of enabling.

There seems to be a lot of confusion over a state effort to rein in local governments attempting to establish broadband Internet service.

Republican State Sen. Chip Rogers, fueled by generous contributions from telecommunications companies, has filed a bill in the Georgia Legislature that, he claims, would protect private service providers from unfair competition by government-subsidized broadband systems.

Columbia County Commission Chairman Ron Cross this past week declared, almost as an afterthought, that the county’s attempt to undo the Magnolia Trace development is finished.

“As far as our action, this is the end of it,” Cross said, reporting to fellow commissioners on the opinion from an outside attorney that the “affordable housing” project can’t be, and likely never could have been, stopped by local government action.

It’s still far too early to know which candidates will appear on the ballots for Columbia County elections this year. But thanks to Columbia County commissioners, we can be pretty sure voters will have an opportunity to sound off on a couple of important issues.

First, voters will be able to decide July 31, during the party primaries, whether to allow Sunday package sales of alcohol in Columbia County.