Opinion

It might sound like science fiction, but the first highway for flying vehicles is already being developed in the skies over Alliance Airport north of Fort Worth. And an air corridor for flying taxis and ambulances could be a reality within the next three to five years.

A Texas House investigations committee sent a recommendation to the full chamber to impeach state Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Austin American- Statesman reported. The committee has filed 20 articles of impeachment against the embattled attorney general and posted them on the House website.

I really think that if the world leaders would require a secret password on their bomb-droppers, the world would be a safer place. Let’s say that the Russians were planning to drop a bunch more bombs on Ukraine (which I suppose is not a wild guess). If… the boss had to have a special password that only he knows to drop the bomb, he would probably have to go at it slowly. It would take him a while to remember just the right password. If he’s like me, he has a folder full of passwords. Of course, most of those have been changed overtime because when I tried to get into the website from my phone, I didn’t have the folder… and couldn’t remember what password I was using at the time, so I punched “reset.” In no time, Amazon or Netflix or Overstocked.com gave me a long, complicated password like 850wR63ttZpy22.

Prayers of university presidents and school superintendents for commencement exercises to be executed as planned often are short-circuited. Some leaders are extremists--the kind who decree that neither blaring air horns nor unseemly yells will be tolerated.

Stephen F. Austin State University, newest member of The University of Texas System, has a storied basketball history, but in football--for a few seasons, at least--not so much.

A key House education committee adjourned last week without voting on a school voucher bill that is Gov. Greg Abbott’s top priority this session, the Houston Chronicle reported. Barring some unforeseen maneuver in the last week of the regular legislative session, the bill is effectively dead for now.

Except for the big bucks that I am paid each week for this column which allows me to order a Medium Supreme Pizza and a side salad and have it delivered, I am on a restricted income, but I’m comfortable. The members of my family should not construe that I have enough to share. One time I thought I had the winning lottery numbers, and four second cousins showed up, towing U-Haul trailers. It was rough on them when I had to admit that the ticket I had was for the week before, and I had absolutely no matching numbers.

Dilemma horns seemed to gore when I contemplated this week’s piece. I could have ridden (written?) off in either direction and still wound up with words to spare.

Like many of you, I watched bits and pieces of the coronation of King Charles III last Saturday morning. As the procession of dignitaries, royals, and celebrities filed into the church, I wondered how I would hold up under the same pressure. King Charles and I are the same age. I’m just not sure that my body, let alone my mind, would withstand the pressures of a coronation. I know my feet would be hurting, my gimpy leg would be swelling, and I know I couldn’t sit through an hour’s ride in that carriage and another hour or so during the ceremony without taking a bathroom break.

It’s official. Fort Hood, named for a high-ranking Confederate officer in the Civil War, has been renamed Fort Cavazos, in honor of native Texan Richard E.