For Football Guruess/Boise Co-op founder and GM says goodbye, for good
BOISE -- Rarely does the shake-up of a grocery store's management spark emotion and debate from customers.
But the Boise Co-op is no ordinary grocery store and this is no ordinary shake-up.
Monday night, the founder of the Boise Co-op walked away from the grocery store after nearly 40 years.
Ken Kavanagh was fired from his post as general manager two weeks ago and Monday night, he hoped to be reinstated at a public meeting. Instead attorneys for Kavanagh and the Co-op's board of directors reached an agreement that he would say goodbye. [...]
There was a series of DUIs, apparently, over the years, alleged drinking on the job, accusations of sexual harrassment, some claim there was mismanagement of funds that may have been covering embezzlement. I don't know about any of that. What I do know is that there's a profound (and potentially unsettling) similarity between this event and the way Terry's replacement at TVCTV went down last autumn (although we've found the new management to be on-point and no less dedicated to community access than she was). Someone mentioned a particular director who's on several boards around town. I'll be interested to look into that a bit and see what his motivation appears to be.
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