The paper does have tuition assistance. But there is only one personnel person, so you both have to be available at the same time. We try to schedule them so that everyone has two days off in a row. Three days a week we have early deadlines, but don't seem to get our stuff much earlier. We are now getting schedules for a month at a time, which is an improvement.
Extra pages are okay.
We are 90 miles from Houston. The focus here is more on design and pagination than editing. I think we could be set up more efficiently. The editor has regular meetings for the whole newsroom.