There’s a danger to moving too fast, and that’s that one tends to make mistakes. This editor made a doozy last week. In haste, I wrote that the Bates park property was purchased for $4 million – of course the real figure was a zero shy of that: $400,000.

Mea culpa and apologies to the Bates Foundation and the county, who were on the hook for only $400,000. – SC