Texas school set to begin work on $60 million stadium

[Youdon_tsay]

<p>Our bonds usually pass as well, but the district is shrewd in how it clumps the various items together – each bond has an item for each part of town so that all parts of town vote for all of them.</p>

[curmudgeon]

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Our bonds usually pass as well, but the district is shrewd in how it clumps the various items together – each bond has an item for each part of town so that all parts of town vote for all of them.

Hence the mixed bond issue. Stadium and PAC.</p>

[curmudgeon]

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@sorghum

Sounds to me that the vote goes like this:</p>

<p>a) Do you want new school facilities, including a $60M football stadium?</p>

<p>b) Or nothing?</p>

<p>Meanwhile, the Chinese government is worried sick - they will only dominate in engineering, but American football will be the best forever.

Or, equally valid, a) Do you want new school facilities, including a $60M Performing Arts Center?</p>

<p>b) Or nothing?</p>

<p>Meanwhile, the Chinese government is worried sick - they will only dominate in engineering, but American performing arts will be the best forever.</p>

<p>But I bet that isn’t as much fun to mock. ;)</p>

[applicannot]

<p>I can’t believe any school district can afford a $60,000,000 football stadium when my high school still has asbestos in the walls and has no science textbooks.</p>

[curmudgeon]

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I can’t believe any school district can afford a $60,000,000 football stadium when my high school still has asbestos in the walls and has no science textbooks.

But think of the science opportunities you have been given by the voters of your community for clinical research on asbestosis. Ya know, every cloud…;)</p>