The San Antonian

Thanks, Career Point!!

The E-N has an article about for-profit trade schools, like Career Point, which are graduating more students than the ACCD schools.

If the community colleges can't keep up, then the for-profits will pick up the slack. This isn't a well-rounded liberal arts education these students want. They just want something that will get them a higher paying job. And they want to get it in a way that is convenient to them.  Either the community colleges adapt or they will become irrelevant for anything other than transferring students to UTSA.

Divided county

An article from the SA E-N regarding a living wage protest has an interesting quote about Bill Miller's:

The union claims the restaurant chain pays workers on the South Side $6.50 an hour while North Side workers get $9 an hour for the same work.

The labor of white people is worth more? It doesn't matter. White, black or brown Bill Millers won't take care of you if you get hurt on the job. They have no workers' comp.

Great SA Current Feature

Wow. What a great way to break out of the non-posting funk I've been in lately.

The SA Current has a great feature (click HERE) for inmate families and for those who are incarcerated. Find a place where the Current is and pick one up. Even if you don't have a loved one in TDCJ it would be a great read nonetheless. Dave Maass has appeared on The San Antonian before.

And on a personal note, having done a parole packet for an incarcerated friend recently, the parole packet feature is spot on. There are a lot of rip-off artists out there. You can do a parole packet yourself and do just as well for a small fraction of what a "parole lawyer" will charge you.

****UPDATED 8/5/2007****
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