«House
of Cards» starts off at a remove, but it really gets going when its story plunges into something like the real world, one in which Bill Maher and Dennis Miller comment on the proceding on TV and a gaff on CNN gets autotuned into a viral clip, where an education bill is broken down and haggled over in terms
of details on charter schools and collective bargaining and the slower moving but responsible
reporting of a newspaper is put up against a fast - paced website in which an
editor tells a writer she can just post her stories herself as soon as she's done with them.
Named for a renowned Blade
editor of the past century, Grove Patterson Academy achieved the highest ranking on this year's state
report card, even as the overall TPS rating dropped for the first time in five years, to the equivalent
of a D grade from a C.