Taxing Internet sales benefits tax spenders, not taxpayers
MICHAEL QUINN SULLIVAN
      Log off your computer and hold on to your wallet, efforts to raise your online taxes are heating up just in time for Christmas. Texas is about to be swarmed by advocates of the "Streamlined Sales Tax," as they hold their quarterly meeting in Dallas on Dec. 11. They say their goal is to "simplify"...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Pay study in wrong direction
      Editor, the Leader-News: I read with interest in Saturday's edition of the Leader- News that once again, ECISD is discussing methods of setting salaries for teachers and administrators. Basic logic instructs that when doing comparisons, one should compare items of value with items of like va...
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GUEST COLUMN
Victory gardens invaluable
      Jak se mas? Although born and raised in San Antonio, I've nevertheless felt increasingly connected to farming issues; no doubt due in large part to my Czech-Moravian DNA. My parents grew up in El Campo. They both graduated high school there, played in the high school band together and later ended...
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HOME COUNTRY
Kids' artistic merit generally pigment' of the imagination
SLIM RANDLES
      Leave it to Janice. She hasn't been the valley's most innovative art teacher since the invention of dirt for nothing, you know. It seems like every year or so, Janice Thomas comes up with some new idea to get the community involved in the art scene. She's gone to far as to invite several well-kno...
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