What's right with Texas?

[Dwight Schr-ute]

The city won't be paying. The article is written like it is a design issue. If the preliminary investiagation holds, an engineering firm will be hitting their E&O insurance pretty hard. Depending on what damages are written into the contract in terms of loss of revenue for missed games or liquidated damages, it could get a lot worse for them. This is every structural engineer's nightmare.

Of course this will be after a year or two of legal haggling between the school, the engineering firm and the construction contractor to figure out who's to blame. Reminds me of the Harmon Tower situation here in Vegas. It may actually fall down on it's own before they figure out who's required to take it down.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...413-story.html

[Uncle Ted]

Was looking forward to Allen's opening game against Denton Guyer in Allen Eagle Stadium. It will feature a QB who will most likely commit to Texas A&M and a QB who has verballed to Nebraska. Might still attend anyway, the game is being moved to U. North Texas's stadium in Denton about an hour away. Other home games for Allen have been moved Plano High and Plano East High stadiums.

Woops is right....

Here's the CS thread that discusses the stadium:
http://www.cougarstadium.com/showthr...otball-stadium

Maybe the stadium will fall down on its own and the tax payers will just agree to build a $100M one. This is the state champion Allen Eagles for heck sakes!

[Paperback Writer]

Maybe the stadium will fall down on its own and the tax payers will just agree to build a $100M one. This is the two-time defending class 5A Division 1 state champion Allen Eagles for heck sakes!

Fixed it for ya.

For the record, both the architectural and construction company think repairs can be made for around 1 million at no cost to me (the taxpayer). The engineering firm hired by the school district seems to agree but their study hasn't been completed (or maybe just hasn't been released) so a final resolution hasn't been reached. Damages and lost revenue will add to the cost. I'm not looking forward to driving to Plano and Denton for my FNL fix when I could walk to the stadium.

[Uncle Ted]

Fixed it for ya.

For the record, both the architectural and construction company think repairs can be made for around 1 million at no cost to me (the taxpayer). The engineering firm hired by the school district seems to agree but their study hasn't been completed (or maybe just hasn't been released) so a final resolution hasn't been reached. Damages and lost revenue will add to the cost. I'm not looking forward to driving to Plano and Denton for my FNL fix when I could walk to the stadium.

Well, Allen playing their home games at Plano just makes the games that much closer for me. There is a silver lining in all of this.

[Uncle Ted]

Texas pharmacies... with indoor gun range:

http://www.nichols-guns.com

How convenient is that?

[LiveCoug]

Well, looks like the Livecoug family is most likely moving to San Antonio.....

[Mormon Red Death]

Well, looks like the Livecoug family is most likely moving to San Antonio.....

Where from?

[LiveCoug]

Where from?

Lehi Utah

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

That super awesome HS football stadium is being shutdown, due to structural flaws.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/05/20/60m-texas-high-school-football-field-closed-due-to-structural-flaws/

[Moliere]

Well, looks like the Livecoug family is most likely moving to San Antonio.....

[SCcoug]

That super awesome HS football stadium is being shutdown, due to structural flaws.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/05/20...uctural-flaws/

You should let PBW know about this.

[Uncle Ted]

You can type 'texas' using only your left-hand in the typing home position. Try doing that with your state's name.

[Pelado]

You can type 'texas' using only your left-hand in the typing home position. Try doing that with your state's name.

Kind of odd for such a conservative state.

[LA Ute]

Cronyism blamed for half of Univ. of Texas law school grads’ inability to pass the bar

A mushrooming scandal at the University of Texas has exposed rampant favoritism in the admissions process of its nationally-respected School of Law.

According to Watchdog.org, Democratic and Republican elected officials stand accused of calling in favors and using their clout to obtain admission to the law school for less-than-qualified but well-connected applicants.

The prestigious program boasts a meager 59 percent of recent graduates who were able to pass the Texas bar exam. Those numbers rank UT “dead last among Texas’ nine law schools despite it being by far the most highly regarded school of the nine,” wrote Erik Telford at FoxNews.com.

“Every law school — even Harvard and Yale — turns out the occasional disappointing alum who cannot pass the bar,” said Telford. “In Texas, however, a disturbing number of these failed graduates are directly connected to the politicians who oversee the university’s source of funding.”

Telford singled out State Sen. Judith Zaffirini (D) and State House Speaker Joe Straus (R) as particularly egregious offenders. A series of Zaffirini emails showed that the state Senator was more than willing to pull strings in applicants’ favor. Another six recent graduates who failed the bar exam twice each have connections to Straus’ office.

http://mobile.rawstory.com/all/2014-05-21-cronyism-blamed-for-half-of-univ-of-texas-law-school-grads-inability-to-pass-the-bar#1

[frank ryan]

You can type 'texas' using only your left-hand in the typing home position. Try doing that with your state's name.

I'm left-handed so that is the post convincing post on your state's supposed supremacy to all others. Truth be told I do like Texas