Schooling in the Ownership Society: Things get too hot for Melinda at WaPo. She quits the board.

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Things get too hot for Melinda at WaPo. She quits the board.:

Things get too hot for Melinda at WaPo. She quits the board.

by Mike Klonsky

Things are getting so hot over at WaPo's board, what with all these investigations of Kaplan, Inc.going on, that Melinda Gates had to bail, and in a hurry. The Post says, she gave no reason for her quick exodus while a family spokesman said she wanted to spend more time than before working and traveling for the Gates Foundation. That's a load of horse manure.

The power-philanthropist and wife of multi-billionaire Bill Gates, announced Friday that she was resigning immediately from The Post’s board of directors. Her presence on the board apparently created another conflict of interest for the Foundation, which seems to have COFs everywhere.

Melinda's resignation comes on the heels of the release of a report, funded partly by her foundation, which