Capital Highlights: What to expect in legislative session
The 2023 Texas legislative session opened Jan. 10, with property taxes, gun control and the power grid expected to be among the top issues on the agenda.
January 2023
Recovery plan available for long-nosed bat
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking public comments on a draft revised recovery plan for the Mexican long-nosed bat, an endangered migratory bat that travels annually between Mexico and the Southwestern United States to follow the blooming period of flowering agaves and cacti.
Photo Gallery: Pecos County Livestock Show
The Pecos County Livestock Show kicked off on Jan. 12 at the Pecos County Coliseum with the showing of rams, ewes, and lambs.
88th legislative session opens with record surplus, revenue projections
Lawmakers returned to Austin on Tuesday just one day after the state's chief financial officer unveiled his most optimistic revenue estimate to date. This key number sets a limit on how much budget writers can spend on state services as outlays cannot exceed revenue.
Year in review: A shift in the status quo
The year 2022 had many memorable moments and occurrences in the city of Fort Stockton and Pecos County. Significant decisions were made through elections for some of the most important entities in the area – the city, county, Fort Stockton ISD, and Pecos County Memorial Hospital.
Corrales selected as All-State Musician
Fernando Corrales, a member of the Fort Stockton High School Band, will perform with the Texas All- State Band in San Antonio on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023, at the Henry B. González Convention Center as part of the 2023 Texas Music Educators Association Clinic/Convention.
Do something: Your guide to local places to go and things to do
YOUR GUIDE TO LOCAL PLACES TO GO AND THINGS TO DO If you have an event for our Do Something! listing, please e-mail nathan.heuer@fortstocktonpioneer.com. JAN.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dear Editor, I see another bar has opened in Fort Stockton. It seems like Fort Stockton opens another bar or beer-seller every six months.
Bad news: Voters prefer status quo
Voters are, to understate their mood, disenchanted with Congress. Yet paradoxically, voters re-elect, over and over, the same representatives they hold in dismally low esteem, consider ineffectual and out-of-touch.
Are we slowly drifting back into ‘The Twilight Zone’?
When you have the beginning of a cold, nothing sparkly to wear and you really hate New Year’s, you watch television.
