Not my kind of club

March 6, 2020

While buying gasoline the other day I saw this:

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:

Tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of death and disease in the United States. Cigarette smoking kills more than 480,000 Americans each year.1 In addition, smoking-related illness in the United States costs more than $300 billion a year, including nearly $170 billion in direct medical care for adults and $156 billion in lost productivity.

I recognize their  right to sell the product as well as the right of the smokers to use it.

I am exercising my right to buy from someone else.

We deserve better

Brutus

 

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Here’s your chance

March 3, 2020

Vote today if you haven’t already.

Please.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Shrinking school districts

March 2, 2020

Mr.  Moore over at elpasomatters.org published a remarkable set of statistics the other day in a post about public school enrollment in El Paso:

El Paso County schools – including both traditional school districts and charter schools – had 34,603 students enrolled in kindergarten, first grade and second grade this year, according to data released in March 2019 by the Texas Education Agency. That’s down more than 5,000 from the 2011-12 enrollment in those grades, according to TEA records, a decline of 13%.

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Those 5,000 fewer students will soon be missing from upper grades at the children get older.

Yet the school districts continue to build new schools.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Open line Saturday

February 29, 2020

It’s Saturday.

Tell us what’s on your mind.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Question about election of judges

February 24, 2020

In past years the candidates for the various judge positions pretty much relied on word of mouth and familiarity with the local lawyers.

This year we are seeing candidates featured on expensive billboards.

That means that they are spending more money to get elected than they used to.

Does anyone know why?

We deserve better

Brutus

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