Month: <span>June 2010</span>

Fiddling in China while El Paso burns

Emperor Nero supposedly fiddled while Rome burned. I don’t know. I wasn’t there. But I’ve always heard that story. These days, there are a lot of fires to put out in Texas, and one is raging in El Paso, where voters yesterday rejected a property tax increase sought by the El Paso ISD. Without the […]

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How the right wing views public education

The ultraconservative party platform adopted last weekend by the takenoprisoner delegates to the Texas Republican Convention is predictably full of the profamily, profree enterprise, proguns, redwhiteandblue rhetoric we have come to expect of such documents. And, of course, it is rounded out with a lot of antitax, antigays, antiimmigrants, antiUnited Nations language as well. It […]

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More sobering news about dropouts

Remember the backandforth between Gov. Rick Perry and Democratic challenger Bill White over Texas’ high school dropout rate? White contended it was as high as 30 percent, and Perry countered that it was as low as 10 percent, if you counted young people who took more than four years to complete high school and performed […]

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Selfinflicted wounds

Some Republicans obviously are not as confident of Gov. Rick Perry’s reelection as the governor and some polls seem to be. That is why, of course, a Republican consultant in Arizona (the Border Phobia State) went to the trouble of arranging a petition drive to get the Green Party on the Texas ballot in November. […]

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