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Sounds like a fun one.

Last I saw Argyle was up 28-18 on melissa

Anahuac might be pretty salty this year. They’ve been trending in the right direction.

Wowza.

Might come to that eventually, but I’m glad they’re putting a lot of money into the stuff that really matters right now, with a few upgrades to the sporting facilities as well.

Definitely agree. Not many teams have 2-3 stud pitchers

Parking is worse than usual because they’ve got so much construction going on.

When I graduated high school I had been accepted to UT, Tech, and a couple of other smaller schools. My grades and SAT scores were good enough to get into just about anywhere I wanted, but not quite good enough to get the insane amounts of scholarships needed to avoid taking out massive student loans. I chose to live at home for a year, going to Lamar. I worked and saved money, and the scholarships I had received covered my tuition at the much cheaper school. After a year I transferred to East Texas Baptist University to join the soccer team (and to follow a gf). Tuition + room and board was about 6.5K a semester when I started (still very affordable compared to other schools). My parents helped as much as they could, I worked 30 hours a week, and I still had a few small scholarships that helped out. My junior year tuition went up to $8K. Before my senior year my fiancee and I realized that if we moved up our wedding a year we'd qualify for grants that we wouldn't have to pay back, so we went for it. My tuition dropped to $1200 my last two semesters, hers to $1800. I didn't borrow a penny. Would going to UT have been awesome? Yes it would have. But you know what was more awesome? Starting my grownup life with zero debt. I did not work my butt off and make smart financial decisions so that I could one day help dumb college graduates pay for the "full college experience". Please explain to me why there are people out there taking out $100K in loans to not only get meaningless degrees (I've known about 10 kids graduate with psychology degrees in the last 5 years, but none of them are using their degrees), but also MEANINGFUL degrees in professions that don't pay well. For example, if someone is dumb enough to go spend 200K on a teaching degree to enter a field that, while worthwhile and important, does not pay well at all, why the heck should they receive loan forgiveness for making dumb decisions? If you live close enough to commute to Lamar, even with today's inflated prices you can get a 4-year degree for $14,000. If you instead decide you want to incur massive student loans to pay for a $140,000 degree from Texas, I'd say it's up to you to find a job when you get out that will pay enough for you to take care of your own incurred expenses. If the government wants to fix this problem, the answer is not forfeiting hundreds of billions of dollars in student loans in increments that will only be a drop in the bucket for many anyway. I've seen significant research that shows after these loan payoffs it will only take 4 years for the amount of student loan debt to make it back to where it is currently. What's the point? The answer is regulation of college tuition and room and board costs. An in-state student pays $25K a semester for room and board + tuition at UT. It's 30K a semester to go to baylor. A&M is $26K a semester in-state. All of these schools are over $50K for a non-Texas resident per semester. These schools have anywhere from 30,000-50,000 students. We're talking profits in the billions. The primary purpose of colleges should not be money making. That is the real issue. But even still, I don't feel any different about someone who chooses to pay too much for a degree than I do for someone who ends up upside down on a vehicle note because they make 50K a year but "need" an 80K truck. Make responsible decisions, and don't expect the country to help you out when you don't.

bingo. while it played no part in our decision to adopt, by adopting "at-risk" kids we've gotten tons of financial help/incentives from the government, I do understand the financial incentivization to encourage the adoption of kids who are difficult to place. While the help seems excessive at times, I'm certainly not giving any of it back, as I feel as though I've put plenty in over the years.

you have to prove you used the money for school (or prove that you voted for Biden)

This is probably accurate. It's already happening at a national level. Even though our area is still fairly conservative there are plenty of outspoken advocates who will work to push for this. 10 years seems like a good guess to me.

This. I taught in beaumont for 15 years at the head start, where students only qualified if they were low socioeconomic. It wasn't uncommon for parents there to get $10K+ tax returns when they either didn't work at all, or worked some menial part-time job for minimum wage. It drove me crazy.

Quanell X owes $345K to individuals and families who say he took cash for advocacy he didn't perform (msn.com)

Many of us are upset about funding other people's education. The president of the NAACP is upset for a different reason: "If the rumors are true, we've got a problem. And tragically, we’ve experienced this so many times before," NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement on Tuesday. "This is not how you treat Black voters who turned out in record numbers and provided 90% of their vote to once again save democracy in 2020." AKA: You think the votes you're buying from us are only worth 10k? NAACP slams Biden over reported student loan debt cancel plan (msn.com)

extremely solid win by the cards. UH went 13-5-2 last year in a decent conference, and also beat lamar 3-0.

Starlettes (pronounced star let's)

Pentagon spurns DC mayor's second request for National Guard help with migrants (msn.com) I think this is hilarious. 6K immigrants bussed from Texas to DC and the city is falling apart, but they've criticized Texas' handling of the situation when we face hundreds of thousands (if not more) a year. At least the govt is consistent and not helping them either, i guess.

Opinion: Democrats are fooling themselves about the midterms (msn.com)

A tikka .270 has been my go to for the last few years. That thing is a tack driver

Looking at the bracket, did some teams get 1st round byes? And if so, any clue how that was decided?

For about the 8th year in a row I've failed to get anything ready to bow hunt. I keep saying I'm going to put a stand up behind my house, but I've yet to do it. I think mostly because I don't have much of a desire to kill any of my "pets", and all of the pigs are nocturnal, with it being a very rare occurrence that I see one in the day. When I do, it's only about 210 yds from the back porch to the tree line, and I knock down about 4 out 5 that I shoot at from the porch. As for my actual deer lease, it's all family and nobody else bow hunts. It's a 3 hr 45 min drive from the house, and my dad has about 2 1/2 hrs in from outside dallas. A big motivator for me going that far north is hunting with my dad, and he won't be up there until gun season. I don't really want to put in a bunch of time bow hunting when it would just be me and my uncle (lives there) hanging out.

Godspeed.

1. Beaumont United 2. Houston Lamar 3. Magnolia West 4. Sheldon C.E. King 5. Port Arthur Memorial 6. West Orange-Stark 7. Orangefield 8. Jasper 9. Coldspring-Oakhurst 10. Lumberton 11. Silsbee 12. Corrigan-Camden 13. Diboll 14. East Chambers 15. Hardin 16. Kirbyville 17. Kountze 18. Newton 19. Franklin 20. Deweyville 21. Evadale 22. Timpson 23. Tenaha 24. Richland Springs 25. Houston Second Baptist

They’ve been opened back up for a couple of years. It’s hard to beat Lercy’s, but considering the lack of options in the HF area the longhorn isn’t bad. There’s a new bbq place called Burton’s that took over the restaurant space where the Shorthorn cafe and then Cooyos were (attached to the gas station where you turn off 124 to go to the stadium). I’ve heard good things about it, but also that it’s expensive, but realistically everywhere is expensive now. It seems like everywhere I go is costing me $5-$10 more than it did two years ago. And FYI, raider, Lercy’s only serves lunch or I would send you there.

It’s only about 3 miles from my house. Just checked their hours, and it looks like they’re supposed to be open for dinner on Fridays. I thought they only did lunch. Tbh, once I discovered Lercy’s for lunch in Winnie I started driving past the Longhorn. That said, I always liked the food when I did go there, although it’s probably been a year and a half since I’ve gone.