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Exploding
November 21, 2015This came in from Helen Marshall:
The Times’ account of the financial discussion the other day at council is not nearly as racy as that of El Diario, which details Niland “exploding” and shouting at Mark Sutter.
In any case, the accounting for the ballpark is rather shaky. That’s why we have Joyce Wilson running everything still.
http://diario.mx/El_Paso/2015-11-17_256174d9/sale-tablas-ciudad-con-inversion-del-estadio/
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Electioneering
November 1, 2015Is it a surprise to any of us that our current state senator has taken an active part in encouraging 18 year olds that attend school in the Ysleta district to register to vote?
The Ysleta district lost a bond issue earlier this year by about 300 votes if I recall correctly.
It seems that there are about 1,000 students in the district that have reached the age where they are eligible to vote. We have been told that the district has been able to get 800 of them to register.
Take note of the fact that we have not heard anything about the senator working in the other school districts to encourage new voters.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Not as easy as it used to be
October 21, 2015I’ve been hearing about the tuition costs at UTEP and decided to take a look back to see what they were in the past.
The Tuition column shows the cost for 12 semester hours for a single semester without any of the other fees. The cost is for those who qualified for resident tuition rates.
The 2015 Dollars column shows the inflation adjusted value of the Tuition column bringing it forward to 2015.
Year Tuition 2015 Dollars
1960 $ 50 $ 402
1970 $ 50 $ 307
1980 $ 152 $ 439
1990 $ 393 $ 716
2000 $ 720 $ 996
2010 $ 1,922 $ 2,100
2015 $ 2,926
UTEP is not unusual in this regard but the old days of working your way through college seem to be gone.
I invite the readers to contribute their thoughts.
Brutus
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