The Political Page, T+21, February 10, 2017

A picture that is worth 10,000 words:

The link and the rest of the article later. Please share with educators. Nothing like a hurricane to get things moving in a positive direction.

New Orleans public schools: prior to Hurricane Katrina, NOPS was the second-worst performing school district in the second-worst state in the US for public education. Then Hurricane Katrina hit. Had God finally seen enough?

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How DAPL Protesters Were Funded

This is only part of the story. We talked about the "other" part of the story earlier (see below).

From Minot Daily News:

Throughout the protests surrounding the Dakota Access pipeline in Morton County, N.D., many people have been asking how these protesters are being funded. Anyone who takes even a moment to try to follow the money cannot possibly avoid ending up on a page hosted by the charity fundraising web platform GoFundMe.

Whether it’s the infamous “Veterans For Standing Rock” with their missing $1.1 million, or another organization in the litany of Standing Rock-based pages on the website, rough estimates for the amount raised on these pages have been reported to be around $11 million. Just as a point of reference the State of North Dakota has already spent roughly $30 million managing the crisis these donations were meant to fund.

From a December 15, 2016, posting:

According to a friend of a friend of a friend who said something to a reader who sent me a note, apparently the going rate for DAPL protesting is:

• $19/hour protesting
• $1,000 up-front
• round trip plane ticket to Bismarck 

Actually, the correspondence is much shorter: protestor to non-protestor to reader to me. $19/hour is well above the $15/hour minimum wage some folks are advocating. The Bakken continues to be a great place to work.

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How Onerous Has/Have Regulatory Over-Reach, Federal Taxes Been?

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Then: