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To drain the swamp Trump must first wade into it

November 29, 2018 by Tim Fleischer

By Bob Carey 

President Trump campaigned on cleaning house at the Department of Veterans Affairs, to fire inept and corrupt bureaucrats, and give veterans greater choice in their health care. 

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Taxes: Some Cutting Remarks

August 18, 2017 by Tim Fleischer Leave a Comment

Job number one for Congress, as I noted in a recent column, is repealing Obamacare. But cutting taxes is a close second.

Of course, the whole system needs an overhaul. We want to unleash economic growth and prosperity. Tax cuts are a crucial first step toward that, but we need full reform to get us across the finish line.

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The People have the Right to Know

June 29, 2017 by Tim Fleischer Leave a Comment

The following editorial originally appeared in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times newspaper.

With the simple act of signing his name, Gov. Greg Abbott completed a trifecta of failure by all branches of state government to defend the people’s right to know.

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American Dream is alive and well

June 29, 2017 by Tim Fleischer Leave a Comment

By Edwin Feulner

President, Heritage Foundation

Almost any time you see the phrase “the American Dream” these days, it seems to be in a negative context. The speaker is either assuring us that it’s dead, or that it can be salvaged only by a radical redefinition — one that often contradicts the basic principles this country was founded on.

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Thriving communities depend on smart public investment in libraries

April 14, 2017 by Tim Fleischer Leave a Comment

By Ling Hwey Jeng, Ph.D., director of the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman’s University and incoming president of the Texas Library Association

Libraries are changing. While traditional activities such as borrowing books or reading still dominate use of libraries, Pew Research Institute studies show the American public today relies on libraries to teach digital skills, provide working spaces and address the disparity among citizens who have or don’t have broadband internet services at home. Libraries also are breaking physical boundaries as they become more embedded in shopping malls, community centers and student unions on college campuses.

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How to steal from a school district and not get caught

March 8, 2017 by Tim Fleischer Leave a Comment

By Jon Cassidy

So, you and a couple buddies have gotten control of a school board or a county commission somewhere, you’ve got your guy installed as the chief executive, and you’d like to cash in on your opportunity – send some work to a contractor you know, maybe put a few relatives on the payroll.

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Stop targeting the military budget

October 21, 2016 by Tim Fleischer Leave a Comment

By Edwin Feulner

Founder, Heritage Foundation

Ever seen this bumper sticker? “It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.”

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Saving the old red schoolhouse

October 21, 2016 by Tim Fleischer Leave a Comment

by Michael Novotny, Salado ISD Superintendent

Earlier this month, the Salado Historical Society dedicated a new Texas State Historic Commission historical marker at the Salado Civic Center.  The marker commemorates the life of Alice Joy Gray Hamblem, who donated the land for a Salado Public School in 1924.

For the following 43 years the “Red Brick Schoolhouse” located at 601 North Main Street was the only school in the district.  The student enrollment gradually increased enough to need another building so in 1967 the district opened Thomas Arnold Elementary School.  Students in grades seven through twelve remained in the Red Brick Schoolhouse for the next twelve years until the district opened Salado High School (which is now Salado Junior High School).

The Red Brick Schoolhouse was vacant starting in 1979 and the building gradually deteriorated to the point of almost being torn down.  However, some community members and Salado High School alumni collected over $500,000 in donations to repair and renovate the building in 1992.  The building was then renamed the Salado Civic Center.

The school district continues to own the Salado Civic Center and our central office is located there.  Several other organizations have rented space in the building over the last 25 years, including the Salado Chamber of Commerce and Visitor’s Center, the Village of Salado, the Salado Public Library, the Salado Historical Society, and the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS).  Each of these organizations eventually relocated to another location.

Last month the school district began a seven year lease with Bell County for three of the offices downstairs in the Civic Center.  This space is for the five Bell County employees, including Justice of the Peace Don Engleking and Constable Rolly Correa, who were previously leasing space at Horizon Bank.

The Civic Center also has large and small meeting rooms used by many other groups, including the Salado Lions Club, Salado Community Choir, Hidden Springs Homeowners Association, ESL and GED classes, wedding receptions and family reunions.

In addition to recognizing Alice Joy Gray Hamblem for generously donating the land back in 1924,

I would also like to thank the following people that helped restore the Red Brick Schoolhouse into the Salado Civic Center:

Gary Bartlett

Kenyon Clapp

Robert H. Cottle

Suzi Epps

Jessie Foster

Egon Friedrich

Hulda Horton

Denver Mills

Lloyd Parks

Pasty Sanford

Lois Shepperd

Wilma Williams

Helen Zagona

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A Climate Change on Free Speech

August 5, 2016 by Tim Fleischer Leave a Comment

By Edwin Feulner

Founder, Heritage Foundation

A few months ago, news broke of an astounding assault on free speech. No, the media didn’t present it that way, but that’s how some conservatives, myself included, characterized it. And with good reason.

The assault in question came via a group of Democratic attorneys general. This group of 16 had banded together as “AGs United for Clean Power.”

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Loving America means finding fault with it

July 29, 2016 by Tim Fleischer Leave a Comment

By Jill Richardson

I was sitting on a bus one summer, chatting with a man behind me who’d worked all over the world in the U.S. foreign service. Like many conversations today, ours turned eventually to the many problems with our country.

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