by Dennis Myers
ThiS Modern World
by tom tomorrow
Your favorite poem? Asked at Java Jungle, 246 W. First St.
Mike Stoker Production manager
“The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe. It’s dark, but it’s clever, and I love the end, the way he ties it in at the end.
Matt Polley Merchant
“Rub dub dub/ Three men in a tub/ Thank you, God/ For this grub.” It’s a poem my brother taught me.
Paul Villedas Porter
The three E’s
“The Raven.” They made a short movie out of it. … I know I should read the book, but I’m used to seeing sort of a movie or pictures in my head.
in light of our recommendations—we’ll probably We’ve long heard about the ungrammatical three R’s never know the company’s specific reasons. Other of school: reading, ’riting and ’rithmetic. states have a lot more money for “incentives.” We We’d like to put a new spin on it and put forth the shot our wad on Apple. idea that there’s a more fundamental and grammatiBut just the subsurface speculation should be cally correct way to understand how school works. enough to illustrate some things. For example, skilled We call it the three E’s: elections, economy and and educated people of the sort that Tesla will need education. Right now, Northern Nevada is in a battle to “win” for its manufacturing plant won’t move to Nevada— even with a good job at the end of the road—because a bid for a Tesla lithium ion battery factory worth there is something missing here. That something may some $5 billion. We’re up against states like Texas, just be that they don’t believe they can get a good New Mexico and Arizona. Other media sources, like education for their children. the Las Vegas Weekly, http://bit.ly/ This is where the three E’s come PeJPxT, have reported that we’re Learning lays the together. If we want to improve our unlikely to get the factory, despite groundwork for economy, we’ve got to improve our the fact that Northern Nevada education system, and we’ve got has easy access to transportation prosperity. to stop electing people who don’t infrastructure like freeways and have enough respect for education railways, lithium mines and other to bother to get one. amenities. As we progress to Nov. 11, expect to see a lot of But there seems to be a booger in the punch bowl, false education and disinformation about the Margins at least according to the Las Vegas Weekly story and Tax. Expect people to try to tell you that a better other sources: Our education system is substandard. education system will actually hurt our economy. The newspaper noted, “As Rep. Dina Titus always But when your child moves out of state because the used to say, we’re on the bottom of the good lists— financial prospects are better elsewhere—even for No. 43 in per-pupil spending; No. 49 in higher educaraising your grandchildren on a factory job income— tion spending—and, with that stratospheric dropout remember the short-sighted, uneducated people you rate, the top of the bad ones.” didn’t vote against. You know why our dropout rate is so high? Prosperity requires investment, and not just in Simplest explanation. It’s because our culture— plant equipment or tax giveaways. Until the people of familial and political—doesn’t value education. the state of Nevada can get their three E’s in order, People can make a good living here without much we can expect our three R’s to suffer, and that will education; it’s part of our mining and casino legacy. Ω If Tesla chooses to go somewhere else—especially likely leave us all F’d. OPINION
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Tyler Pearson Construction worker
I don’t know if I have a favorite poem. I do not read a lot of poetry. It just never captured me, I guess.
Lola George Sales associate
I like Hamlet’s soliloquy, [and] usually Macbeth. Hamlet offers a really good play, and it has an awful lot of good poems that I enjoyed and appreciated.
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