Rhetorical Observations of the Religious Dogma Taxes and Education in Texas.
I attended the Board of Trustees monthly meeting of the Lone Star College System this past Thursday. I have a right to do so as a property owner, tax payer, citizen, and a few other rights. It's an open meeting, though the Board exercises its right to go into an executive session per Texas statute. First Page of September Board Agenda The rhetoric of such meetings is not dissimilar to corporate stockholders meetings -- everything is good, everything is rosy, and only discuss the positive, or always put a positive spin on any troublesome data. But corporate stockholders meeting is not quite right -- it's more a convocation of the righteous, a sectarian coven with a ritual in itself that claims openness, but in fact is designed to permit only the chosen to attend and participate. The meeting itself is held out of the way for most property owners of the huge college district (several hundred square kilometers) and starts promptly at 5:00 p.m., which means that most working ...