Another voice has joined the blogosphere here in El Paso.
Jud Burgess can be followed at https://www.facebook.com/JamesNoEPISDBond
Mr. Burgess filed an ethics complaint against members of city council because of their recent serial meeting.
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Slow rental market
January 21, 2017Things are slow in our local rental housing market.
The chart below came to us from RENTCafe.com at http://www.rentcafe.com/apartments-for-rent/us/tx/el-paso/.
Don’t look for growth in the rental tax base to save us.
Looks like “It’s all good” did not take hold.
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Career advice
January 6, 2017We came across this cartoon the other day:
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Individual responsibility
January 3, 2017We ran across an interesting passage the other day. The author was writing about the emerging use of corporations to control businesses in the 1860’s:
No other event has had so practical a bearing on our politics and our economic and social life as the advent of the corporate device for owning and manipulating private business. For it links the omnipotence of the State to the limitations of private ownership; it thrusts the interests of private business into every legislature that grants charters or passes regulating acts;
Then he wrote about circumstances that most of us deal with every day:
it diminishes on the other hand, that stimulus to honesty and correct dealing which a private individual discerns to be his greatest asset in trade, for it replaces individual responsibility with group responsibility and scatters ownership among so large a number of persons that sinister manipulation is possible. Samuel P. Orth
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Just a second
December 31, 2016
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On December 31, 2016, a “leap second” will be added to the world’s clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This corresponds to 6:59:59 pm Eastern Standard Time, when the extra second will be inserted at the U.S. Naval Observatory’s Master Clock Facility in Washington, DC.
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