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NPT Wednesday Brief: EPISD on administration salaries; Jackson on leaving the race; Irwin on the Alamo and an alternative history
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El Paso-centric info and commentary from the Center of North America on the NPT blog:
-- In withdrawing from mayoral race, Jackson says he wasn't going to do some of the things he was asked to do
-- NPT Drug War: What an army coming down the road looks like
-- Wiles v. Geraldo
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From our news partners over at ABC-7:
-- Border violence affects business recruitment and relocation
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Opinion
Remember the Alamo! Thoughts on an alternative Texas history.
by Louis Irwin
 An alternative history is not inconceivable. Had Mexico tried to subdue without conquering, then governed its outlying territories more magnanimously and effectively, a bilingual-bicultural state remaining loyal to a central federated Mexico is not hard to imagine.
Posted on March 4, 2009 • read more »
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