About a week ago the Trib's Robert Gehrke wrote a story exploring full-time lobbyist/some-time state senator Howard Stephenson's deep and questionable involvement in education contracts. The story chronicled Howard's many attempts to influence the state Education Office's awarding of contracts.

Tomorrow (Saturday) is get back time for Howie on a special edition of his radio program titled: "Stupid in Utah: How the Utah State Office of Education hurts kids and teachers." According to the state Senate blog, Howard's show "unveils mismanagement and deceit in Utah Public Education" (Warning to parents: Howard uses a bad word.) :

Stephenson says he's had a gut full of the subversive acts to overturn the legislature's education reforms by the bloated 500-plus employee organization and will give specific examples of how too many career bureaucrats don't give a damn about the law, education improvement, or providing teachers the tools they need to do their jobs. He will show case by case how the educrats work to prevent money from reaching the classroom and how they try to punish the most qualified and highest performing classroom teachers.

Your on your own on this one, readers. There's no way I'm getting out of bed at 8 a.m. Saturday to listen to Howard rant, even if he uses bad words.