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The Victoria College. Full-time salaried position with benefits available...
DISTRICT "Champions for Community Wellness" has the following positions...
Good morning. Well, last night (May 6) it was us. The crime spree in Palacios is now personal. We live one block behind Main Street, "in the forgotten block." We live midst junk cars, junk and trash galore, and we are drowning in ordinances from the city. Each time we have a problem, we get an ordinance. So the next ordinance will be "crime is a crime."
We have so many ordinances that our city council is considering hiring another ordinance inspector (two for a city of 5,000) instead of hiring more cops and raising their pay so the rate of attrition will slow down. Our cops are good but woefully understaffed. So today the crook got a cell phone. Hopefully tomorrow the crook will get a cell, but you have to admire their stupidity. Robbing the poorest of the poor can’t be cost efficient. Folks on fixed incomes and who are retired aren't usually your most wealthy in poor neighborhoods. We don't have all the bells and whistles. Once I read a breakdown on income earned from crime and it was something like $3 an hour. Perhaps we should put up a billboard with that info, but I doubt that thieves read.
Mae Sexton
Palacios