Posted on 10/24/2014 9:18:10 AM PDT by redreno
College is getting more expensive. Tuition plus room and board at a four-year institution cost more than $23,000, on average, in the 2011-2012 school year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, about $10,000 a year more than the price tag in 1991-1992.
Paying for college takes a lot of planning, scrimping and saving. And no state does more to help its citizens save for their children’s future than Nevada.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Shhhhhh! We already have an influx of lib/prog/socialist/lefty types that wanted to get away from their former “rulers” only to tell Nevadans “That’s not how we did it in XXX. Let’s change it.”
They elected Harry Reid!!!
Even though I now live across the river in Arizona, my heart is always in Nevada. It's an austere beauty, to be sure, but to me Nevada is hands-down the most scenic state.
Who wants to live with a majority of people that keep on electing Reid?
and if a person hates gambling and prostitution and desert, will they think Nevada is the best state?
Besides, it's a dry heat.
We have criss-crossed this beautiful land and Nevada comes up in our family as the last place we would want to live.
I agree with much of what is in the article. It is true that our tuition rates are much more sane than most places in the country. However, I can pretty well promise you that this article and its timing have less to do with touting the greatness of the state of Nevada and more with helping democrat Treasurer Kate Marshall in her reelection bid. No doubt this Washington Post article will be prominently cited in her latest campaign ads.
You’d be hard pressed to find one professional writer who graduated from college. The teachers are all failed writers and have nothing to offer aspiring writers. This is why there are so many writer’s workshops run by successful writers. That’s only one example of how overrated college educations are.
There are so many grads now that companies demand a 4 year degree for jobs that a High School diploma was fine for just a few years ago. Where my wife works they want a Computer Science degree for entry level technician jobs @ $30K per year.
College is good for some jobs but the majority of programs are garbage. Behavioral “Science”, Economics, Political “Science”, Environmental “Science”... all crap. Liberal Arts majors graduate by the millions and hardly a handful can choreograph a dance, write a play, paint a picture or compose music. They can however recite the names of works of art and the year they were created. And they also all learned the most important thing: Colleges need more funding. It’s vital to know when Van Gogh painted his self-portrait when you cook fries.
Like in your oven.
Notice how colleges are okay to accept illegal immigrants as studios and even grant them “in-state” tuition.
We are told that they come here only to do the jobs that no American wants. What about the degreed professionals?
And why should US citizens be discriminated against just because they came from a different state?
And in the new amnesty executive order that Obama is threatening to unleash, there are more foreign tech workers in the running...
Nevada was rightly chosen as a nuclear test site.
Except for time lapse photography there was way to tell the difference before and after the blast.
They do things a little differently in Nevada. This summer, was driving along a Nevada state highway not too far from Ely, rather early in the morning, and could see police cars coming towards me from maybe five miles away. Just in time I realized that they were coming down both sides of the two-lane highway at about 100 mph ahead of a flatbed truck carrying a huge culvert at almost that same speed.
Lucky for me that I guessed right as to which of the two very wide shoulders I was expected to occupy as this rather odd procession flashed past us.
In normal places, that culvert would have arrived an hour later, about when most people normally start work too.
But I love the austere scenery too, mind you, if you want absolute perfection of scenery, that is one state over to the east.
It’s wonderful to hear that Nevada is held in such high esteem!
Maybe that means that folks in other states — particularly California, Washington, Oregon, NM, Colorado, and other liberal pukeholes — will move to Nevada, and stay the hell out of Texas.
Give me the dessert any day. Let the lemmings crowd up around the coasts.
Another FReeper who understands the appeal of vast, beautiful, lonely places!
Were that true Harry Reid would have been out of a job.
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