@TranqIngles@HealthRanger@grok@grok, what recent builds and adjustments to exports are you specifically referring to? Prices are rising, available diesel is decreasing. What measures are actively being managed to avoid larger pressures on the market in the coming weeks?
@RahnParker23032@CoachWoods21 Congrats Parker. Great season kiddo, even better guy around others. Lots of people rooting for you. Good luck at the next stop.
I just visited a shop class in Great Falls, Montana where high school students are building houses for people who need a place to call home.
Let that sink in for a moment.
High schoolers in Great Falls Montana, under the guidance of an excellent shop instructor and lots of community support, are building actual houses. Not birdhouses or doll houses – real homes, built to code from the ground up for real people, and move-in ready.
Yesterday, I toured the latest home these kids are in the process of building. It’s the 48th such home built since 1998, through this remarkable program. While I was there, I ran into @GregForMontana. Like me, the Governor was blown away by what these kids were doing and took the time to talk to each one of them, thanking them for their hard work and congratulating them for what they’d accomplished. I was then invited to join the Governor on stage at Great Falls High, where I answered a few questions about mikeroweWORKS, talked about the many opportunities in the skilled trades, and discussed the ways we might be able to encourage more projects like this one, in Montana and beyond.
It's encouraging to see public/private partnerships done right. And really, it’s not that complicated; it just takes a few stubborn people in various organizations who won't take no for an answer. In this case, too many to name, but a quick shout out to Pete Pace, the shop teacher at the center of High School Homes, the administrators in the school district, the principal at Great Falls High, Sherrie Arey and her devoted crew at @neighborworks, the incredibly generous executives at @WellsFargo who offered another round of financial support, and a Governor with the good sense to push through the normal bureaucratic nonsense that kills programs like this. Bravo to all!
Mike
PS. This is the third time in two months I’ve seen a program like this in action. The first was in Western North Carolina, (Rebuilding the Hollars), the second was in New Orleans, (@uCCNOLA.) The projects all have one thing in common - a shop class with an exceptional instructor. Like I said, it takes support from every direction, but a high school shop class is always where it starts.
For years, I’ve argued that removing shop class from high schools was a mistake that would deny a whole generation of students’ critical exposure to a long list of essential careers and rob them of an opportunity to prepare for the all-important apprenticeships on which most skilled careers are built. Today, standing in the shop class at Great Falls, watching dozens of engaged students cutting, hammering, measuring, and fabricating, it occurred to me that I was wrong. Taking shop class out of high school was not merely a mistake - it was the single dumbest decision in the history of modern education. We didn't just rob a whole generation of students, we robbed ourselves, in a colossal, self-inflicted wound that's led directly to a host of unintended consequences - including the current shortages in every essential skilled trade.
Correcting it, should be at or near the top of every Governor’s agenda in every single state. Because tomorrow’s skilled workforce is currently in the 8th grade, and if we don’t meet these kids where they are - right now - with programs like this, we’re in for a world of hurt.
Y’all remember when #3 Georgia came to Austin (with their jerseys unbuttoned to their belly buttons) and got swept?
That @GalvanRylan walk-off was a beauty.
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COLLEGE COACHES:
Most recruits just want transparency…
If you are no longer interested, or they are low on your recruiting board…
JUST SAY SO!
Ghosting teenage kids, who pour their hearts out for this gotta be the LAMEST thing you can do.
Honesty and integrity is ALWAYS RESPECTED 💯
An hour after one of the best baseball games you'll ever see, Sandy Koufax made his way into the Dodgers' clubhouse to applaud Will Klein for what he did on Monday. It was one small slice of a night that had everything. My column on Game 3, free at ESPN: https://t.co/ZgzqDARwuR
@Claycooper55 This is a perfect spot for you Clay! Congrats on this opportunity. We have enjoyed watching you develop the last few years! Looking forward to your next post about an NIL deal with a Pine Tar brand.
I am extremely blessed to announce my commitment to Yavapai College where I will continue my academic and baseball journeys. First and foremost I want to thank God for this opportunity. I would also like to thank my family for being there when I always needed them most. Thank you to all my coaches who helped me reach this goal, and thank you to Coach Mac and Coach Jimenez for the amazing opportunity to be apart of their program. GO ROUGHRIDERS!! @YavapaiBaseball@CoachMac_23@ChrisJimenez32_