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Two Hours In Line Are Worth The Wait.....For Something All Too Important

Posted 10-24-2016 at 06:15 PM by case44 (Welcome To Case's Column)
Updated 10-24-2016 at 06:30 PM by case44

It's our moral obligation. It's our civic duty. It's one of the things that make being an American great. It is something Americans cannot waste or throw away when the opportunity presents itself.

Hopefully, four years from right now, we will still, as Americans, have that right and not have it taken away from us.

Two hours was the length of time I stood in line at a local library to make the most important vote in the most important election of not...
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Next "big" city

Posted 10-24-2016 at 03:31 PM by walker1962

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It's not any worse than the $25 million PER YEAR the taxpayers of Texas were putting right into Bernie Ecclestone's pocket for the privilege of hosting that idiotic F1 race at Circuit of the Americas.

So funding is $1 per capita per year for Texas residents? Actually, it was cut to $19.5MM effective this year. If you told me $25MM just from Austin then I would be more concerned but M/SP is spending way too much money on all of those facilities given its size. D/FW is twice the...
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Next "big" city

Posted 10-24-2016 at 03:25 PM by walker1962

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True, Dallas is in the middle nowhere in a flat isolated location. Yet it has the biggest metro in the state.

I think Austin and Nashville's airport are on the same level, but BNA is going through an expansion that will put it on another level above Austin. Austin has no plans to expand the airport.

Also, Austin has no plans to extend public transit. Nashville has proposed a 6 billion dollar plan that will include light rail to all corridors of the metro. And the mayor
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Next "big" city

Posted 10-24-2016 at 03:18 PM by walker1962

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I wasn't gonna keep this going between Denver vs Austin that's carrying on however I can't help but have to question why denvers 1.8 compared to Austins 1.15 GDP matters? In what way does that make Denver better or someone else to like or be more happy there? I'm from Chicago which has a 7 times larger GDP then Denver.. and guess what? I'm more financially successful here in Austin and the economy here is much better across the board..

Austins growth is on a whole different level
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Posted 10-24-2016 at 03:17 PM by walker1962

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Auraria campus houses 3 different colleges and has a student body of 42k+ students (Definitely not a small campus). In contrast UTA only has around 35k+ students.

LMAO, you are comparing a COMMUTER school like Auraia to UT-Austin!? I can't take you SERIOUSLY! UT- is a RENOWNED international school with, by total dollars, the second largest endowment in America, behind only Harvard. the campus is not 35,000+, Try 50,000+. Who are some famous alumni of Auraria? I can name quite...
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