Dauphine Island “Life happens,” was a quote from one of the three young women from south Texas who believed so completely that education would change their lives, and perhaps more significantly, redirect their fate and future from the path of their parents to a brighter new world of opportunity. The Times story was unfair to these …
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Oil Field, Big Money, Big debt or School?
Dauphine Island A front page article in the Times blurted out that “Pay in Oil Fields, Not College, Is Luring Youths in Montana,” as if they were sounding the alarm that perverts were roaming loose in the playgrounds. A 19-year old was shown in front of his new, black GM Silverado pickup in …
Obama Job Plan and the Challenge of Green Jobs
San Jose The President threw it up against the wall with a jobs plan that is kind of a plan and kind of a campaign statement and kind of a flying flag to see what the Republicans might salute. A lot of it seemed mainly designed to help employers who were hiring and people who …