06-06-2024, 11:46 PM
(06-06-2024, 06:42 PM)WildArkieBoy Wrote: Yes, the unfulfilled promise to fund education. . . understood. My city and county, the most impoverished in the U.S., receives the largest turnback from the State of Texas annually~over $550M for their school district. Should gambling be legalized, this community (Brownsville, Cameron County) would fall head over heels. Already, it takes 15 or more minutes to purchase a coke at a convenience store with all the lottery tickets being sold and/or redeemed.
Just read a great NY Times article about Brownsville, Space X, Musk. Kinda wish it had been longer form. Some journalist should be writing a book about it in the vein of Hunter S. Thompson or Tom Wolfe (if they aren’t already)