Challenges to Economic Development
"One of the great challenges in economic development is measuring success," said Terry Clower, director of the Center of Economic Development and Research at the University of North Texas. If you think...
View ArticleEconomic Development Tax: 10-Year Review - Part II
To expand/clarify quotes from me found in the article "Blog takes critical eye toward the MDC"..... "They're not failing because they're doing it wrong. They're failing because they can't do it right....
View ArticleEconomic Development Tax: 10-Year Review - Part III
Continuing the theme set by the Site Admin, I'll add/clarify the few quotes I have in the Blog takes critical eye toward MDC story in the MRT. ..."Ospurt," said he started blogging to be a neutral...
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Economic Development Sales Tax: 10-Year Review - Part IV(f)
(Have the tax dollars raised by the creation of the 4A sales tax been spent as voters were told they would be? You be the judge. The following is re-posted from April 6, 2010.) ED Wayback Machine, Part...
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Economic Development Sales Tax: 10-Year Review - Part IV(e)
(Have the tax dollars raised by the creation of the 4A sales tax been spent as voters were told they would be? You be the judge. The following is re-posted from March 30, 2010.) ED Wayback Machine,...
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Economic Development Sales Tax: 10-Year Review - Part IV(d)
(Have the tax dollars raised by the creation of the 4A sales tax been spent as voters were told they would be? You be the judge. The following is re-posted from March 29, 2010.) ED Wayback Machine,...
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Economic Development Sales Tax: 10-Year Review - Part IV(c)
(Have the tax dollars raised by the creation of the 4A sales tax been spent as voters were told they would be? You be the judge. The following is re-posted from March 28, 2010.) ED Wayback Machine,...
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Economic Development Sales Tax: 10-Year Review - Part IV(b)
(Have the tax dollars raised by the creation of the 4A sales tax been spent as voters were told they would be? You be the judge. The following is re-posted from March 26, 2010.) The ED Wayback Machine,...
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Economic Development Sales Tax: 10-Year Review - Part IV(a)
(Have the tax dollars raised by the creation of the 4A sales tax been spent as voters were told they would be? You be the judge. The following is re-posted from April, 2010.) The ED Wayback Machine,...
View ArticleEconomic Development Sales Tax: 10-Year Review - Part IV
From Sunday's article on the MDC's 10 year history:The deal with Apache Corp., which was approved in 2010, is an example of great expansion in Midland's chief industry, Rendall said. Apache may have...
View ArticleHopeful Constitutional Amendment Outcome
According to the Texas Secretary of State's website, Proposition 4 on the constitutional amendment ballot yesterday, failed. Here's the explanatory statement for Propostion 4 from VoteTexas.org:...
View ArticleCain's zipper problem and the media's viciousness
I do not, truthfully, know if Herman Cain has a zipper problem. I do know that if he does, it is dwarfed by Bill Clinton's zipper problem. Recall that Betsy Wright, the Clinton thug from Alpine,...
View ArticleEconomic Development Sales Tax: 10-Year Review - Part V
The Great Os was good enough to take one of these (Part III) so here goes: An interesting set of quotes concerning Entrada Building A found in the MRT article of 11/06/2011, Economic Development Sales...
View ArticleWhat America has that no other country has
Victor Davis Hanson writes in NROnline a very bracing article: that America is not in the terminal decline that it seems, frankly, to me that we are. He names our universities; we have most of the...
View ArticleEconomic Development Sales Tax: 10-Year Review - Part VI
On Sunday, the Midland Reporter Telegram Editorial Board weighed in on the economic development tax. Diversification was the driving effort in 2001 when voters agreed to this tax. When voters passed...
View ArticlePerhaps you've not heard it
One sunny day in January, 2013, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue where he'd been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, "I...
View ArticleSports hero
This is a political blog, or had its roots in one. I recall when I used to bluster even more than I do now. But I remembered something personal from the late 60s and it amused me. I have never cared...
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Liberal evolution
The perfect progressive hand for making sure people pay "their fair share."
View ArticleThe Huffington Post does it again
I know that Ariana Stassinopolous, aka Ariana Huffington, has become a laughingstock even perhaps among the left. And Rush of course lampoons her online rag, the Huffington Post. Nonetheless, no matter...
View ArticleThanks for reading.
The time has come to shutter Jessica's Well. I appreciate all of the contributing writers, commenters, and readers that have stopped by since we started in March of 2002. But ten years is a long time...
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