It’s begun. We are having a debate over socialism.
Opinion
Tax cuts push up import volume, increasing borrowing, interest
The Markets
The S&P 500 Stock Index (SPX) rose 0.75 percent for the week, turning in its fifth straight weekly gain at 2840.35. It is now up a respectable 6.24 percent in 2018 and well over 14 percent from a year ago.
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Salado Family Relief Fund will assist local families with buying school supplies
The Salado Family Relief Fund will be assisting families in financial need with school supplies for their children. Students in grades pre-kindergarten through eighth grade will receive a school supply package. Students in ninth through twelfth grade will receive a gift card.
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Trustees adopt goals for 2018-19
The Salado ISD School Board met on Monday, July 16. The following is a summary of that meeting:
First look at Salado Middle School
Thank you again to our community and voters for your support of our bond election in May. Our employees, school board members, and architects have been working hard on the design of these bond projects. However, instead of trying to describe the facilities in writing for you in my column this week, I thought I would provide updated diagrams. As Fred R. Barnard of Printers’ Ink stated on March 10, 1927, “a picture is worth a thousand words.”
Salado ranks in top 10 in 4A Lone Star Cup
The UIL Lone Star Cup is awarded annually to six high schools in Texas. One high school from each of the six UIL classifications (1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, 5A, and 6A) earn this award based on their team performance in district and state championships in academics, athletics, and music.
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Who knows what Trump will say about immigration next?
In the 1950s, the great neo-conservative intellectual Irving Kristol acknowledged Joe McCarthy’s stark failings, but famously refused to take the side of his critics. “For there is one thing,” he wrote, “that the American people know about Senator McCarthy: He, like them, is unequivocally anti-Communist. About the spokesman for American liberalism, they feel they know no such thing.”
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S&P continues downward on fears of trade war
The Markets
Our dearly beloved S&P 500 Stock Index (“SPX“) ended the week down 1.33 percent at 2718.37 on trade war fears, although it managed a gain of 2.93 percent for the second quarter and is up 1.67 percent year-to-date.
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SISD trustees hire 6 new teachers at latest meeting
The Salado ISD School Board held a meeting on Wednesday, June 27. The following column is a summary of that meeting.
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What’s next, a tie-dye ordinance?
To the Editor:
Barrow Brewing Company, as a general policy, normally tries not to not to meddle in the affairs of the local village government. Recent events however, have demonstrated that some folks at city hall apparently have no intention of reciprocating that policy. The fact that a “Special Event Ordinance” was on the agenda for discussion mere days after our recent event is a fact that would be difficult to ignore. Despite the Village Administrator’s protestations to the contrary, it was obvious to us that it was indeed a response to Barrow’s recent festival.