AUSTIN— Early voting began Monday, April 22 for municipal, school board and various bond elections. It ends on April 30 with Saturday, May 4 being election day. What is on the ballot depends on where you live.

Check Your Mirrors SUE JANE SULLIVAN “I think I am only 57, but the paperwork does not back this up. I don’t feel old because your inside self doesn’t age.

Corndogs and shoestring advertising HANABAMUNN WELCH Get in on the Corn Dog Craze! Sonic marketers emailed me a picture of two glorious corndogs — one with mustard, yum, and one with ketchup. Really? Ketchup on a corndog? But the picture needed the eye-catching red touch.

AUSTIN—Colorado State University researchers are calling this year’s hurricane season forecast “the most aggressive” ever, the Texas Standard reported. They say there is a 54% chance a hurricane will strike the Texas coast, and a 25% chance it will be major.

“The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error.”— Doris Kearns Goodwin My wayfaring existence, with a great deal of time spent behind the wheel, lends itself to listening to audiobooks.

Ah, the mentality of the five-year-old who whines to parents that he “really did take a bath” when the smell and dirt under the nails say otherwise. How about the students who wait until 7:56 a.m.

Who remembers mercury? Itwasthatstuffyounever really got to know till the thermometer broke. Then, if you were lucky enough to catch it, you could play with it. Just one thermometer’s worth wasn’t enough for much fun.

“Well, it took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits in baseball, and I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.” -Hank Aaron You may fall into the camp of “baseball is the most boring sport known to man.” Fair enough.

AUSTIN—Oneeconomist is calling it “the most profitable 22 minutes in Texas history,” according to the Texas Standard. The total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8 is expected to draw up to a million visitors to the Lone Star State,especiallyinitsnarrow path of totality.

COMMENTARY Euphemismsbyanyother name are terms with extra syllables. Sometimes extra words.