Yup. When you combine the state, county, and city taxes, the Gross Reciepts tax is 7.375%
It’s the same deal as a municipal airport. The government builds the infrastructure, then leases office space and hangar space to private corporations.
I think that one of the companies is the one that shot Scotty, but I’m afraid I wasn’t really paying attention.
Well, New Yorkers and Californians come in with chips on their shoulders, and start whining about the lack of diversity. It depends on which cultures you are interested in, I suppose. We have lots of rednecks and hispanics. The university is pretty diverse. The engineering and science departments attract students from all over the world.
Well, she went from Chicago suburbs, and a high school that was at least 70% black and quite a bit low-income, to a college in the middle of rural Iowa that was proud of the “diversity” of their student body because they had students from at least five different states. It was kind of amusing to her to be the resident “ghetto expert”. Rednecks are nothing new, she has uncles.
This is a kid who just loves new experiences and learning about people. I’m sure some of it will be frustrating, but she’s pretty adaptable. She’s really looking forward to this.
Since she’s an anthropology student, she might want to read up on the Native American community.
On the southern edge of Las Cruces is an area called Tortugas. It is home to a community of Tigua Indians. They are an offshoot of the Tiguas in El Paso, who are an offshoot of the Piro-Manso pueblos in northern New Mexico.
It is pronounced “Tiwa”. “Tigua” is the Spanish spelling. (In the local Spanish dialect, when you have the letters “GU” at the beginning of a syllable, the “G” is often silent.) You may see references to “Tortugas Indians”, but “Tortugas” is the name of the place, “Tigua” is the name of the people.
One also encounters other groups. There is a Mescalero Apache reservation near Ruidoso, a couple of hours northeast of Las Cruces. The Navajo reservation takes up a large portion of the northwestern corner of New Mexico. There are a number of pueblo cultures around Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Lots of them go to college at NMSU.
That’s exactly the kind of thing she’d want to do. Do you, off the top of your head, have any books or reading material to recommend? I’ll look it up and so will she, but if you know of something that’s good it would be a place to start. Thanks.
Yikes. I’m a honkey. I exhausted my knowledge in my last post. (And probably overreached.)
Morning knows her professional journals better than I do. I would do searches on “Tigua”, “Tiwa”, “Tewa”, “Piro-Manso”, and “pueblo”.
To a layman, “pueblo” is a blanket term for the agrarian cultures in northern New Mexico and Arizona. It might not be PC, these days. Anthropologists probably have more precise classifications.
(By the way, I goofed in my Spanish lesson. It’s only “gua” where the “g” is silent. If it’s “gue” or “gui”, the “g” is voiced, and the “u” is silent. But I digress . . . . )
No problem. She loves finding out that kind of stuff. (Good thing, huh, since that’s what she intends as a career?) I think she’ll be happy to have the starting info. Thanks.