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Just reminding everybody to make sure you're registered to vote for the upcoming election on September 13th. If not registered go to your local Gov't office and pick up a card and have it postmarked today or tomorrow in order to be eligible to vote on the Constitutional Amendments and DCTA if applicable.

Fort Worth was technically well within the law to annex all the land as long as their city limits at the time did touch the land, also they have home-rule. The county at the time (run by a bunch of good ol boys : Kurt Wilson and Scott Armey) saw $$$ with tax revenue from TMS being built and Fort Worth had to be the one to get involved since Denton and Dallas would not come in. Fort Worth and Tarrant are now getting to big for their britches and need to be knocked down a little bit.

Denton did not have much say in the matter with regards to Ft. Worth swiping up land way outside of their city center. They can do what they choose in order to steal money from the county and put it into their coffers. There are very few who want anything to do with Fort Worth, which makes me wonder why people would want to move into the Harriett Creek Subdivision going across from NW ISD. Hopefully a judge will see that there is only greed involved and tell Tarrant County to back to their own lands.

Ft. Worth is just as bad as Tarrant County they snaked their way up 35 all the way to TMS and are taking all of the tax revenue there, also they have a rather large Housing Development building up at 156/114 corner. Should be interesting to follow and I hope Trophy Club and Roanoke will join in the battle and support Denton County and the lower taxes. Will be interesting to watch the decision play out at the Supreme Court.

Denton county is still fighting and and they now have the backing of Flower Mound mainly due to a new business park going in along Grapevine Lake. If Tarrant County manages to weasel out a decision then taxes in the areas will Triple, causing businesses and developers to look elsewhere. It is all about money with the land valued at 1.6 Billion in the near future. Tarrant is pretty sick in their insinuation that the they are only trying to get the land that is theirs even though the line has been the same for 150 years, go figure. It will be a nightmare if the TX Supreme Court upholds the corrupt/bias decision especially for my area of elections and for any towns involved.

Living in the HD Apartments is nice, of course we are in the smallest of the bunch, but for the rent price I will not complain, now if the students will just be quiet J/k most are considerate.

UG lived at Santa Fe Square Grad went to Alton House (firewood apartments) Now back on Campus at Maple Hall (Wife is a Hall Director)

Going to miss the girls they were mostly TX bred and they were all great students, players, and people. Best of Luck to those who Graduated (Kristen, Sandyha, Natalie, Bettina). Good Luck to those coming, especially the two Texas Girls, played each other in the 5A Doubles final. Hope everybody supports the team next year.

Last Home Match today for the Five Seniors on the UNT Tennis Team. Match begins at 2:00 at Goldfield against SMU. Good Luck, Bettina, Benita, Natalie, Kristen, and Sandyha

Saw the girls lost 2 very close matches this weekend. Came down to 1 match and both were 3 setters. They are good results despite the losses. UALR has beaten some ranked teams and Ark. St. always has a tough team. One match left for the girls at home on Wednesday agionst SMU. Good Luck to them.

Yeah to bad Riverside got rained the girls have had to deal with I think 4-5 rainouts already, but playing some good competition does help going into Conference. Northridge must of had a darn good team.

Does anybody else here follow the women's Tennis at all? They have big matches this weekend up in Arkansas then play their last home match next Wednesday I believe against SMU. Should go out and watch them. 5 Seniors and they all deserve a good send off. 2 P.M. at Goldfield.

Your best option is to look at the fiscal problems that are causing many local cities heaps of trouble. Plano for instance is almost all grown out and are losing Tax monies to the outer ring cities now. Go in look at their budget and procedures and make a plan on how they can be more efficient and find monies from other sources. You can easily get 10-15 pages from that mess, believe me I have a 15 page paper due over the Denton County budget coming up. You can also look at any leadership conflicts, implementation of bonds from previous elections. Topics are almost endless. Good Luck on the paper.

Sorry already headed up to St. Louis for IBC Sectionals, to bad we 3 of the Top Ten Teams in our Sectional. Have a good Spring Break everyone!!

Jason Grad 2001 - Geography and work for Denton County Elections. MPA Program now Expect to Graduate Spring 04. Also Captain of the UNT Bowling squad and former Asst. Women's Tennis Coach. Will be getting Married in June to H.S. sweetheart who grad from Sam Houston, but is now at UNT working on Grad. Degree. GO MEAN GREEN!!