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Students begin a new school year with hopes and dreams of better lives. Teachers and administrators similarly have high hopes for their students, trying to create classrooms and schools of the highest quality where these dreams can be nurtured and minds developed, as difficult as this sometimes is given the limits of budgets. Southern Methodist University in Dallas was created with such hopes but also with many obstacles. In the end, SMU was the result of a fight to relocate another college and the fate of a Dallas medical school that culminated in a world-class university.

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State Capitol Week in Review

The North Texas Food Bank will join Feeding America and other member food banks for Hunger Action Month this September to inspire people to join the fight to end hunger and raise awareness of people experiencing food insecurity across the United States.

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Answering questions about dyslexia

I have shared in the past that when we bought our home not too long ago we downsized. It’s been a painful process getting rid of things you thought you needed. A few weeks ago we cleaned out a mini-storage unit, you know the kind with the roll up door and a padlock. For almost two years we have been paying $40.00 a month for storing things we have not used in a million years. A lot of the things we keep are for the twenty four year old that used to live at our house. She’s now a grown up grad student and first year second grade teacher who lives in a tiny studio apartment in the Montrose section of Houston. We love her but she has been advised that we can only keep her high school memories for so long.

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