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We’re at 2,300 tickets sold for the PN-G game so far. We can do better than that.

I think we all know that this is about the time of year when Southeast Texas high school football fans of all stripes start to consolidate into the fanbases of the Southeast Texas teams still in the playoffs. This year, there are three teams from the 409 still competing: Newton, Silsbee and PN-G. This week, Silsbee and PN-G will both play at Houston-area venues. Silsbee will play Cuero at 1 PM on Friday in NRG Stadium. PN-G will kick off against Fort Bend Marshall at 7 PM that night at the stadium in Galena Park. These are opportunities for Southeast Texas to show its legendary fan support. Tickets to the PN-G game have already gone on sale, and GPISD has opened up both sides of the field to PN-G fans and their friends in anticipation of a sell-out crowd. Tickets to the Silsbee game will go up on Ticketmaster shortly, if they haven't already. Let's show up and show the rest of the state out. See y'all at the game(s).

This is correct. Exact details would need to be worked out. Step one is PN-G selling out the home side as quickly as possible. Y’all know what to do.

We haven’t made it passed the third round since the 1999 state championship appearance. In fact, Faircloth’s 2010 team was the first to make it to the third round after 1999.

This is correct. It’s good to have coaches and programs with connections, on both sides of the field. It won’t surprise me if a certain state senator attends this game.

The Chronicle, the Enterprise and Hearst are all welcome to sound off about this. I'm sure it will work out just as well for them as their last round of articles did. 😎

We’ve got connections.

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It was a bad attempt to either preempt a primary challenge or remind DeSantis that the loyalty among GOP base voters belongs to Trump first and DeSantis second. It appears to have backfired. We’ll see whether Trump learned his lesson.

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With only two real exceptions, publicly available polling is absolute trash. November's going to be the reddest election cycle since at least 2014. Bank on it.

They’re trying awfully hard to get more there. And they’re hiring an awful lot of lobbyists to do it. Probably not a good idea to cause a ruckus in the Speaker’s home county when that’s your goal. Or in the district of the only Texas House member who’s filed a gambling bill every legislative session for at least the last decade.

And this is why I keep going back to the reservation schools. You have Indian reservations in this country with schools charted by the tribal governments - including one such school run by a certain Cherokee chief in Oklahoma - that have adopted the Indian mascot. There’s one out west that adopted the team name “Savages.” The PC babies can scream “cultural appropriation” all they want, but guess what? That’s not against the law. Racial discrimination is against the law. The federal government can’t stretch Title VI to prohibit the PN-G Indians without also prohibiting the Sequoyah High School Indians in Tahlequah, otherwise they arguably run afoul of Title VI itself, not to mention the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. Regardless of what OCR’s actually committed to writing, I think the powers that be know that, and aren’t interested in dividing tribal voters on the issue. Or permanently ceding Florida to Republicans, for that matter.

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I’m not familiar with the executive order you’re referring to, so I can’t speak to that, specifically. Generally speaking, all federal executive orders must proceed from some statutory authority. Here, the only statutory authority that’s even remotely relevant is Title VI, and implementing that policy via executive order using Title VI would be tantamount to rewriting the statute by executive fiat. Setting aside the likelihood of litigation successfully overturning the EO, the political blowback alone is enough to render it highly unlikely.

It will never come from the state. Both the Obama- and Clinton-era civil rights offices at the US Department of Education expressly stated that American Indian-themed mascots are not themselves forms of race-based discrimination cognizable to federal anti-discrimination laws like Title VI. Even American Indian activists with legal backgrounds quietly admit they’re not optimistic about that changing. I don’t think the existing legal landscape is favorable to it, either. The only possibility left after that is a new federal legislative effort. I don’t think there’s much chance that bill’s even filed, much less that it passes. Keep in mind that it wouldn’t just affect PN-G, it would affect hundreds of high schools across the country, including in blue states, and some reservation schools. It would also affect major universities like Florida State. All that makes it politically untenable. I’m not going to tell you it’s impossible, but I’m a lawyer and I work in politics for a living. A ten year timeline is not realistic. And that has nothing to do with my personal opinion that the opposition to the mascot is ridiculous, as a Cherokee descendant whose great grandfather lived on the reservation in Oklahoma until he died and whose grandfather grew up there.

I don't think you need an officer per door. I think one officer per campus is enough. That's partly based on the psychological impact. The Uvalde shooter wasn't from Uvalde, only attended the high school there for a short time, and likely had no idea he'd encounter an officer on the campus of that elementary school. He very likely picked what he believed would be a totally defenseless target. In the end, he didn't meet much of a defense, sure, but do we really think he would have picked that elementary school out if he thought he'd come across any defense at all? These shooters have a consistent pattern of picking defenseless targets, or at least what they perceive to be defenseless targets. Put a visible law enforcement presence on every campus in the state, even a minimal one, and I think you significantly reduce the odds of a shooter even attempting a massacre. Your points regarding equipment, training and leave are well taken. Even so, the Legislature and the school districts in the state's population centers have the money available, through one avenue or another. PN-GISD doesn't have anywhere near the resources on a per pupil basis of a Round Rock or Lake Travis ISD, and still manages to keep four resource officers total on three of its campuses every day.