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Dr. Jackson said they were getting permits & permissions to have sanctioned tailgates with food trucks, etc. before every home game this upcoming season. LP has 7 home games this year. The local restaurants are all looking at how to set up food tents, etc. Said they want to make Game Days an all-day event for the community. Still some finishing needed inside Press Box & Development Center. But, there’s a team store, 2 large suites rentable by the public, and a large VIP room all in the 4 level Press Box. Seating in the stadium is 8,000. Don’t know how many the suites & VIP room hold. Some seating was lost to accommodate handicap seating, & expanded Press Box/Suites/Store. Still enough though for most events I think.

Not only that, but Eyasu Walling and his family was featured on TV a few days ago. Wonderful story about the Walling family adopting Eyasu and his three siblings from Ethiopia. LaPorte is getting tons of positive PR right now.

Fox 26 Houston is touring the stadium right now with Nate Griffin.

I did!! sloppy at best!!! PNG should be licking their chops!!!!!! blood is in the water!

Can't figure out why you are such a Chester fan being from or currently at Brookeland?

Predictions??? Chester 2-0 sweep!

Appears they lost 4 🤷🏻‍♂️. They’re about to get another shot at Brookeland, though.

Why am I not surprised

All this winning! Ramp up the flights out!

Anyone see the Nederland scrimmage? If so, do you have any thoughts on what you saw?

9 years minus the 180ish days is a long time.

In Beaumont?

Of course.

Lmao!!!!!!

After only paying a few hundred dollars back to the district, but spending thousands while spending weekends in jail, Walker has finally had his probation revoked.

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Obama ended the ‘dry foot’ policy as well while he was trying to play kissy face with communist Cuba. Truth be told, he probably ended the policy because Cubans are generally conservative voters. They don’t fit into the race-baiting Democrat playbook. That’s another very big reason why the authors of the 14th didn’t want birthplace citizenship. They spelled out ‘no foreigners.’ They wanted immigrants to assimilate before becoming a citizen. Today, everyone wants to be a ‘something-American.’ No one says they’re just an American any more. No assimilation. People live in their own little silos with like kind—usually based on race. I blame the racial politics of the Democratic Party. They’ve been splitting people apart by race since they began as a Party. It’s only gotten worse over time.

You’re right. The way that the process typically works is that the CAD looks at nuts and bolts. Square footage multiplied by a value per foot and sets your appraised value. They’ll usually make correction if you protest with an actual error, like “that storage building has been gone for two years” or something along those lines… if you have a question of value (like a deteriorated driveway or a partially finished interior), they usually stick by their calculations. You’ll then need to ask for a hearing by the Appraisal Review Board-they’re independent citizens that mediate disputes between the CAD appraisers and the taxpayers. They’ve got more leeway to adjust value than the appraisers that are working exclusively off of ratios and numbers. The only time that I’ve had success arguing value with the CAD was one year when I’d paid for an independent appraisal for a home equity loan in that exact year, and the detailed report from the independent appraiser swayed the county appraiser to adjust the value downward before I went to see the ARB-and I think it happened because they knew I’d prevail at the ARB hearing with my evidence. But we still negotiated a little bit.

Yep. But what they fail to address is that without a decent driveway, no way in hell am I getting the appraised value for my house and property.

WAAAY off topic, but your comment reminds me of a joke: "You know the problem with female referees in the NFL? They keep bringing up stuff you did like 3 games ago..." 🤣

You’re not wrong. The CAD is trying to make sure that your appraised value is within 95-105% of its actual market value this year. Sometimes they’re on point and sometimes they’re way off. BUT, if my house has a sale price of $100k, I don’t leave the table with $100k. By the time you back out closing costs, a survey, title policy, buyer concessions and realtor fees, I’d be doing good to leave the take with $87k. I’m annually paying property tax on the fees that were paid once to others. That’s not fair IMO… but I don’t know how to make it any more fair. I don’t disagree with your driveway scenario, but like they said-the value of paving isn’t considered as a part of your CAD appraisal. Two mostly identical houses…Should somebody with a long driveway pay more than somebody with a short one? Same goes with fences… i don’t have one, but neighbor has a bunch of money tied up in a four rail fence and remote controlled entry gate. They just don’t consider those things. There’s good ground and bad ground. Some pastures stay wet half of the year, but others drain immediately-the acreage is taxed the same while we all agree that the actual values would vary greatly. It’s an inexact science that should be explained better, but it’s hard to reason when the typical response is made in anger.

It’s very clear why Reagan did it, I’ve actually explained the reasoning. Why don’t you read answers when you ask questions?