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bluto

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  1. The one thing the govt leaders have relied upon is like the stonk thread… revenues/values only go up! Until they don’t. Then shit gets really really fucking dicey very quickly https://www.austinisd.org/announcements/2025/02/14/projected-budget-deficit-widens-local-property-values-decline-en-espanol?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content
  2. https://www.austinisd.org/announcements/2025/02/14/projected-budget-deficit-widens-local-property-values-decline-en-espanol?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content
  3. Fify
  4. What I’m looking forward to is the kid enrolled at a ~$7500 tuition school currently, said school bumps tuition up to $10k bc why the f not. Said kids family doesn’t get any voucher money and is out an extra 2500 plus having to go to school with the new undesirables
  5. Great (and I’m betting sad) thing is we’ll know the answer to this very soon. I think you’re a fuckin idiot to assume anything above board will occur with Trump and Elon at the helm backed by a nutless congress operating under threat from Elon.
  6. Damn that’s wild seeing both dezavala and daggett on closure watch, that’s essentially all of fairmount and Ryan place wiped out. Surely they would just be consolidated into one
  7. Quick heads up to buy tix on Seatgeek or StubHub. Rangers site wants $45/ea including fees, I just got two StubHub for $26 ea. fuck em.
  8. That's not going to happen to Stripling. My wife is the architect on the new building/renovation (she did Paschal before this). I have no inside info, but my wife pointed out that Stripling now has several dedicated science rooms, a band hall among other things that are completely inappropriate for an elementary school or pretty much anything besides maybe a very small high school. Even FWISD wouldn't just walk away from all the bond money being spent there. Also, that pla presented last night is pretty dependent on some new money (most likely the form of a new medium sized bond) to add classrooms, etc. to the existing schools taking on students from the closed schools (maybe they can use some of the unspent 2021 bond money?). That's even a harder sell if they are viewed as wasting the existing bond money. Good intel and I saw that on the stripling construction page, all the speciality additions. $60M price tag expected, about 50% complete per that site. After seeing what they’ve allowed downtown to turn into along with panther island boondoggle, I’ll never say never with this city. This is not to mention how bad they shit the bed on attracting corp relocations as every other part of dfw exploded with job growth (distribution centers ain’t gonna cut it) also, the library cd purchase was $600k to be spent from 2017 to 2019.
  9. Good lord that would be so perfectly Fort Worth for them to close Stripling MS just as a massive reconstruction comes down the home stretch, paid for by the ‘21 bond package. On par with the library dropping insane cash on a music CD collection ~5 yrs ago. This city’s leadership is so incredibly dumb, gullible, or on the take. Maybe all 3.
  10. Just wanted to drop in to say fuck globe life and or who ever is in charge of ticketing with the absolute bullshit tack on fees
  11. Random note… Fuego Burger on 377 just south of the circle, damn good and consistently damn good both with menu wide quality and across multiple visits.
  12. somebody earlier on here said they’d print money and I was kinda wait and see… but holy shit their soft opening has been line out the door daily along with a cop directing drive thru back up. looking at the menu, I don’t get it at all. I also lived 2 blocks from the lowest Greenville location and never saw a line (and never went myself). Generally busy/populated but not packed.
  13. Why don’t the free market folk who are also so damned concerned with govt spending and handouts look into dialing back the 700bn+ in oil/gas subsidies
  14. If you don’t already listen, Texas Take podcast is a solid listen for Texas politics. Braddock is a bit blow hard-y, but the info and historical context is solid. this week dove into voucher bullshit. Damn good intel.
  15. bluto

    Israel

    Ummm have the Egypt and Jordan leaders not gotten the msg that us providing international aid isn’t a thing now
  16. Malik wouldn’t have played over lefau is very sketchy. but duvernay woulda been a borderline contributor? What in gods name are we talking about, DD had 100 catches in 2019 with Herman/ehlinger averaging over 13 per. first team all conference.
  17. That screech tweet cracks me up, especially the “less chillin at the mall”… talk about exposing yourself as being out of touch with the utes. Not to mention how many parents today bemoan the lack of ‘real’ socialization in general.
  18. It’s been a few yrs but f cumulus, robbing us of a sirois New Orleans Super Bowl week.
  19. the parents in red states with special ed kids, talking even “lite” issues like a touch of dyslexia, who voted maga are gonna be blown away by what abolishing the education dept will do to their kids’ education and development. When edu dept goes bye bye the states will have full control of their own shit show.
  20. Cumulus cheapness be damned, I’ll still never understand how they put mino as a host. Can’t imagine the asswhip these trips are for the old guard having to go out to dinner/hang out with him/bass/justasip.
  21. On that first paragraph I could really get into the weeds on the feedback loop regarding slashing tax rates and the overinflating of commercial values. As well as the insanity of rates being set based on the certified roll before litigation is wrapped on values.
  22. bluto

    Dallas | Burgers

    Happy hour $3 per oyster is some shit
  23. Mccroskey is Susan collins? We have a bygod senator posting here.
  24. As part of the ptax relief, he wants 10billion to go toward it after both house and senate marked 1bn. Wants an extra 0 among friends. Additionally he wants any tax rate hikes requiring a vote to be approved by a 2/3rd super majority instead of simple 50% plus 1. Bc I guess the ppls vote matters, but only if it’s overwhelming
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