House kills school choice plan

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

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

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.

What am I missing here?

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. —George Romney, 1964, Republican National Convention One year from now, we will have elected a President...

The 501 Nighttime Deer Season

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.

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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. It’s like a weather forecast.

The paradox of progress

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. Once—and only once—I watched my mother wash out my little brother’s poopy clothdiaperinthecommode.

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

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

Knox City September police report

Knox City PD responded to 38 calls for service and activities during the month of September 2023.

Pilgrimages are the way to go

Sometimes you just have to settle. Ask me. The Camino de Santiago beckons. Most of us are never going to travel that famous well-worn pilgrimage route across northern Spain. My chances are slim as long as I stick with my nonpilgrimage husband. So I settled.