Back in the old days, people had this thing called planning. It wasn’t a way to force people to create your visions. Rather, it was a way of not making a fool out of oneself. For a 2000-year-old example, lo here.

Well, maybe that’s why they’re all dead, now.

Coming a long way, baby, Southwestern Community College is pursuing an expansion that includes doubling its current acreage and adding a science building, law enforcement training center, three classroom buildings, and parking spaces.

The cost of the expansion — and how it will be paid for — is a discussion for another day, [President Don] Tomas said, “We are taking it one step at a time,” he said.