Texas college access and cost squeeze students and budgets
Texas higher education faces rising costs and declining financial aid while enrollment and degree completion grow. Gaps remain for African American men and Hispanics as completion rates lag. The 2015 goals under Close the Gaps require more funding, smoother transfers, and stronger college readiness amid a 12 billion reduction in 2013.
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Texas
UT Austin
Texas A&m
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Coordinating Board
Center For Public Policy Priorities
Florida
California
North Carolina
New York
Not a newscard but a creed of freedom and faith
The piece presents a civic minded statement by Laura Dennis editor of Odessa American, framing freedom as self-control granted by God and aligned with moral guides like the Coveting Commandment the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence. It promotes readers to promote and preserve freedom and to see its blessings.
Online travel chaos during hurricane proves costly and frustrating
A traveler vents about booking misadventures during a hurricane as she moves her son into college. Amid outages and endless hold times, she laments cancellations and fees, reflecting on loyalty to a long-time travel agent and the harsher reality of online booking pitfalls.
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Continental Airlines
Expedia.com
American
Lesli
Boston
Continental
Los Angeles
Good old-fashioned capitalism column critique
A guest column argues that free market capitalism outperforms command and control policies, blasting Obama era deficits and UN aid. It cites UN reports favoring market-led poverty reduction, critiques foreign aid in Sub-Saharan Africa, and warns against a proposed $38 trillion wealth transfer under a $72 trillion UN plan to curb poverty and climate risk.
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Barack Obama
United States
United Nations
U.n’s
International Organization
Asia
China
India
Sub-Saharan
Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Stanford Journal of International Relations
U.N
America
Honor Our Troops thumbs up donations praised in Odessa American
Odessa American praises donations to the Honor Our Troops group while inviting readers to share opinions on current topics via email and letters to the editor. The piece signals support and calls for community input on Feedback options.
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Odessa
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Patrick
Estrich
Susan Estrich
Robert Kingsley
University of Southern California Law Center
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Mike Peters
Gaddafi
Santorum Beia
Honor Our Troops Organization
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