Michael Glaspie
Michael Glaspie has lived in the city for nearly 40 years with his family and served on the Arlington ISD school board from 1991 to 2008 and then the Arlington City Council representing District 8 from 2012 to 2019. He s also served on several city committees. Glaspie has also served as a minister of Mount Olive Baptist Church and a U.S. Army Vietnam Combat Veteran. In education, Glaspie holds two Bachelor’s degrees, one in mathematics from UT Austin and another in biblical studies from the Southern Bible Institute, and two master’s degrees in marketing/finance (UT Austin) and religion (B.H. Carroll Theological Institute). If elected, Glaspie’s main priorities will be further equipping first responders with tools and techniques, keeping taxes low, and maintaining and improving infrastructure and safety in Arlington neighborhoods, streets, parks, libraries, etc.
The most trickle-down vs. bottom-up quotes of the week
Biden on economics, Thune on taxes, Sotomayor on cheerleaders, and much more.
President Joe Biden speaks during a rally at Infinite Energy Center, to mark his 100th day in office, April 29, 2021, in Duluth, Ga. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)(Evan Vucci)
“My fellow Americans,
trickle-down economics has never worked. It’s time to grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out.”
President Joe Biden (Wednesday,
“Even if the spending is popular, and a lot of it probably will be,
the tax increases I think are going to be a hard sell, not just with people in the country, or with Republicans but I think with some Democrats, too. I think they realize that you really run the risk of stepping on a lot of economic growth.”
Lara Lynn Ford. | Instagram/Lara Lynn Ford
When police first questioned 51-year-old Lara Lynn Ford about why she stole nearly $1.4 million from Ed Youngâs Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas, the congregationâs former business managerâs initial response was âUmm stupid.â
She was smart enough, however, to avoid being caught stealing from the church for more than a decade to support a bad spending habit which she sometimes indulged to âhelp people,â according to an April 2019 Grapevine Police Department report and court records reviewed by The Christian Post.
âWhen [Officer] Villalobos asked Ford why she committed the theft, Ford replied, âUmm stupid,â and then elaborated that she has a spending problem. Ford then admitted she didnât have the money in an account, and she would buy things she doesnât need and would help people,â Officer T. Karfs wrote.
AUSTIN Though the foster care system in Texas has been rocked by a growing shortage of beds and increasingly pointed critiques by a federal judge, leading providers are urging the GOP-led Legislature to double down on a regional privatization approach.
The private providers are advocating brisk rollout of “community-based care,” in which one non-state entity is ceded virtual control of a geographic region, even as citations and official rebukes pile up on the two nonprofits in charge of the push in San Antonio and Fort Worth.
Troubles are mounting in both cities, the only urban demonstrations so far of the community-based care model that is likely to be imposed on Dallas and Collin counties late next year assuming there are willing bidders.