Essays about Texas

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Wednesday, August 28, 2019

“A noose around her economic neck”: A young lawyer wins a partial discharge of her private student loans

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Nitcher v. National Collegiate Student Loan Trust, decided a few days ago,   is another story of a heavily indebted lawyer who attempted to...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

A disbarred lawyer is unable to discharge $250,000 in student loans in bankruptcy. Will he ever pay back those loans?

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Paul Hurley obtained a law degree in 2004 and a master's degree in tax law in 2006. He took out student loans to fund his studies, and ...
Friday, August 23, 2019

Warning: It can be dangerous to go to college if you are middle-aged

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If you are 40 years old and don't have a college degree, you probably want one.  On average, people with college degrees make more money...
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Monday, August 19, 2019

Trump hires a fox to run the chicken house: Former student-loan servicing exec named as new Student-Loan Ombudsman

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President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos remind me of the two bullies in The Christmas Story : Scott Farkus and Grover Dill, who ...
Friday, August 16, 2019

College life in the 1960s: Seven idiots in a 1960 Chrysler Imperial

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I ain't hurtin' nobody.  I ain't hurtin' no one. John Prine I enrolled at Oklahoma State University in 1966, ju...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

"Luxury" apartments for college students: How will the kids pay the rent?

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Bloomberg Businessweek  carried a story recently about the emergence of luxury housing for college students. In recent years, real estate de...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Oklahoma State University's great snowball riot of 1968: A tale of my misspent youth

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When I think back On all the crap I learned in high school It's a wonder I can think at all. Paul Simon I graduated from Ok...