Quote of the Week

Quote of the Week
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"No mother wants to have to go lobby her local government to ask for help with afterschool programs. ... She does it because she wants to make sure her children never have to do the same."


– Council Member Delia Garza, responding to Don Zimmerman telling a group of visiting schoolchildren to "do something useful" and not "live off others."

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