No school board member in this state likes raising taxes, but if we're not properly funded by the state or the federal government, and the costs are increasing, we don't have a choice.


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The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.
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I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, th...
LARRY MILLER
Manufacturers are making products kosher to get in on that market, plus more people are looking for ...
LARRY MILLER
Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting...
LARRY MILLER
Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. I...
LARRY MCMURTRY
Self-parody is the first portent of age.
LARRY MCMURTRY
Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
LARRY MCMURTRY
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: w...
LARRY MCMURTRY
If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone ...
LARRY MCMURTRY
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends&#...
LARRY MCMURTRY
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity fro...
LARRY MCMURTRY
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a nati...
LARRY MCMURTRY
A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
LARRY MCMURTRY
Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its...
LARRY MACPHAIL
I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, ...
LARRY MACPHAIL
When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go ...
LARRY MACPHAIL
The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and r...
LARRY MACPHAIL
The only way you can obtain brood mares on a basis you can afford is to buy two or three yearling fi...
LARRY MACPHAIL
It had been my idea that a combination of purebred cattle and horses could be successful from an eco...
LARRY MACPHAIL
I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within ...
LARRY MACPHAIL
The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
LARRY MACPHAIL
I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted th...
LARRY KRAMER
I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there....
LARRY KRAMER
Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, bu...
LARRY KRAMER
We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; t...
LARRY KRAMER
I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened ...
LARRY KRAMER
Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
LARRY KRAMER
I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay...
LARRY KRAMER