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humanbeing This is nothing but self-imposed ignorance, If that's what the majority o....
pstern Unfortunately, this is the kind of thing that many Texans like most about Per....
pstern Could someone out there tell us why he or she is voting for Rick Perry? ....
salon @John. Did she get fired?
pstern Neal, Perry and legislators already hit your retirement funds several ye....
John That all was crap.  I remember hearing our yearbook advisor that year require....
Neal Morgan As a former teacher/coach at four Texas high schools and three colleges, I am....
salon One of the evidences of their attention to historical detail is that, in fill....
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Public Education
The Real Fix
3/11/2010 10:49:17 PM
pstern

Public Education:  The Real Fix   Light at the end of the Tunnelby Peter SternI have a simpler solution.  It will save a ton of tax dollars and achieve better learning outcomes.   Teach children the basic needs in learning and life:  reading, writing, math along with some ..........
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Educating our Children
You call this Education?
3/11/2010 8:32:13 PM
humanbeing

AUSTIN – Republicans on the State Board of Education Thursday soundly rejected a Democratic-backed proposal to require that Texas students be taught the reasons behind the prohibition of a state religion in the Bill of Rights. In a surprise decision in the curriculum standards for U.S. g..........
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Agenda for Glen Rose Economic Development 4b Board for March 16 2010
3/11/2010 5:56:00 PM
salon

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NOT A Secret!
Somervell Armoured Vehicle-OF COURSE I can see what my tax money got spent on.
3/11/2010 5:49:22 PM
salon

The other day I saw an article in the Texas Tribune that was talking about how US Homeland Security grant money was dished out to various counties. In particular, there was a paragraph about how Somervell County had gotten an armoured vehicle. And you never know when terrorists might attack the nucl..........
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New Standards for Educating Our Children
Another Reason to Dump Perry
3/11/2010 9:05:50 AM
humanbeing

"Alaska and Texas are the only states that declined to participate in the standards-writing effort. In keeping his state out, Gov. Rick Perry argued that only Texans should decide what children there learn." From NY Times: www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/education/11educ.html.....
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Oh. So those Earthquakes in North Texas ARE Because of Nasty Waste Injection Wells
3/10/2010 6:17:54 PM
salon

Didn't we say so? Doesn't EVERYBODY think so> Well, guess what....Researchers believe that when wastewater from the gas extraction process was injected into that disposal well, it could have affected a nearby and relatively inactive fault line running along the Dallas and Tarrant county lines,..........
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Separation Of Church and State? Oh, Kenneth Copeland and his Private Jet Believe in That!
3/10/2010 5:54:59 PM
salon

I actually do, too (believe in separation of church and state) , but it really grates on me that a church gets a big ole tax exemption FROM THE STATE while flying around in a 2.8 MILLION dollar CessnaCopeland's Eagle Mountain International Church and the Tarrant Appraisal District settled a lawsuit..........
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