Texas 30th District State Senator Pat Fallon resigned Sunday, Aug. 23, which opened a vacancy for the position which covers a 14-county area, including Young County. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made a proclamation the day of his resignation to host an emergency election for the position in September.
Fashion is important for teens all over the world. Of course, fashions change or sometimes morph into something totally unexpected, but to be “old fashioned” is a curse … especially if you between twelve and seventeen. It has always been important to be in style, but over the past forty years or so, it has become a social necessity … growing up in America.
As thousands fled southeast Texas ahead of Hurricane Laura, Texas A&M promoted an Ike Dike as a critical way to protect the region from devastating damage.
Texas escaped a direct hit from Laura, which made landfall as a Category 4 storm in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, just east of Port Arthur. Despite the state’s luck this time, Texas A&M marine scientists urged action on their proposal to build a series of barriers, levees and gates that would close off Galveston Bay from storm surge.
At the time I’m writing this, two hurricanes are headed toward the Gulf Coast … at the same time? Get real, won’t they bump into each other and like the Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat … just eat each other up? Nope. Like a good man, Marco decided to wait for the lady Laura to make an entrance first … fill up the bar ditches, soak the ground, over-run the ponds and lakes, and bring those bayous up to the top. The poor alligators won’t have a place to sun … even if there is a break in the clouds.
Few emotional swings reach from the highest high to lowest low in a period of 60 hours. My wife Brenda and I celebrated our 54th wedding anniversary on August 12. Three days later, our oldest daughter, Julie Choate, succumbed to a pulmonary embolism.
In a two-hour period, efforts to revive her failed; her airlift to a Fort Worth hospital was for naught.
Offenses got a lot of pub sometimes because it’s more exciting to talk about.
Jacksboro’s defense was the highlight Friday night, holding Breckenridge to a mere 122 yards in a 13-0 win over the visiting Buckaroos before a solid crowd at Tiger Stadium.
While neither team turned the ball over in the contest, which took right at two hours to play, the Purple defense didn’t allow the Bucks on its side of the field the entire second half, allowing just one first down in the final two quarters.
Students across Texas returned to campuses last week as schools and universities scrambled to put into place new lesson plans that best accommodate a pandemic.
In August or September, during a “normal” year, I attend a tax school in some big city where I study very hard for three days, eat at nice restaurants, take in a show, and shop a little on the way home. I’ve been to Chicago, New York, San Diego, and Denver. And … I can take it off my taxes as a business expense. Of course, not the show and the shopping, but most of everything else.
2) Eggs were frying on the sidewalk 3) Fish were caught with ticks on ‘em.
A Texan’s speeding ticket put her in the legal history books last week.
To combat the backlog in criminal cases created by the pandemic, a Travis County justice of the peace conducted the nation’s first virtual criminal trial. The case was livestreamed on YouTube, and the jurors deliberated in a private Zoom room.
Legal experts debated whether trial by Zoom properly balanced constitutional concerns such as the right to a speedy trial and the right to confront witnesses.
