Abbott: Battle continues over vouchers

Body AUSTIN—As time runs out next week on the fourth special session, Gov.

Rosalynn

Body [ dripping with sarcasm] “Of course, Jimmy, I want you to forget the fact that you graduated in the top percentile of the United States Naval Academy and are well on your way to an illustrious naval career so that we can go home and farm.

House kills school choice plan

Body AUSTIN—The Texas House on Friday defeated a proposedvoucherplan,also leaving in doubt a comprehensive public school funding plan that became tied to it, The Dallas Morning News reported.

The 501

Body COMMENTARY HANABA MUNN WELCH Raise your hand if you think you might be neurotic. Raise your other hand if you don’t know what it means. It’s a crazy word. As a child, I wondered what it meant when my mother said it. Now my husband says it. I’m still wondering.

Special session likely to end with no voucher deal

Body As the clock ran down on the Legislature’s third special session, Texas House and Senate leaders exchanged barbs over Gov. Greg Abbott’s school choice bill and border security proposals, the Austin American- Statesman reported. In a social media post, Lt. Gov.

What am I missing here?

Body Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.

The 501 Nighttime Deer Season

Body COMMENTARY It’s deer season. No, not the time of year to shoot ’em. You hit ’em with your car. Me, I just missed a prize buck. He was poised to leap into my path but hesitated. I could almost count the points. He had lots. Oh well.

The 501

Body HANABA MUNN WELCH My grandmother used to look to the sun in the sky to know what time it was. She owned a watch. She wore it to church on Sunday -- maybe to time the preacher. Not that timing a preacher changes the length of the sermon. What will be will be.

The paradox of progress

Body In general, I am not one to wish for things to be as they were. I had to wait 364 days to beabletowatch“TheWizard of Oz” since it only came on onceayearonaSundaynight at 6 p.m. CST.

Texas employment at a historic high, but jobless rate is up

Body For the 30th consecutive month, Texas showed job growth, reaching just under 14millionjobsandoutpacing thenationinitsannualrateof employmentgrowth,according to the Texas Workforce Commission.