Opinion

GUEST COLUMNIST If you think that people are disagreeable these days about politics and culture, you can’t imagine how heated people got when I asked for suggestions on what to name my yellow Labrador puppy four years ago. Blame social media.

A slim majority of Texas House members have indicated they will back House Bill 3, which creates education savings accounts that allow families to use taxpayer money for private school education. The Dallas Morning News reported that 75 Republican legislators have signed on with the bill’s author, state Rep. Brad Buckley, R-Salado, to support the measure.

Dear Fort Stockton Pioneer Team and Readers, It has been an honor, a privilege, and a joy to have served as your General Manager at the Fort Stockton Pioneer. I was truly blessed to work alongside some of the best in the business: · Shawn York and Joh Covington, exceptional managing editors, whose dedication and skill have been pivotal to our success.

CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS Texas House members filed a bevy of education bills last week, including a proposed $8 billion investment in public education and a voucher bill that ties the amount of money spent for private schooling to the dollar amount provided to public schools. The Austin American-Statesman reported the bill, filed by Rep.

GUEST COLUMNIST We sold my mom and dad’s dream home last autumn — the Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired midcentury modern house they called home for 25 years. Staying put is becoming more commonplace in America.

The Texas Lottery Commission and its former director are under scrutiny after they allegedly helped a single entity win a $95 million Lotto Texas Jackpot, the Houston Chronicle reported. Written testimony at a state legislative hearing last week from an attorney indicated an entity called Rook TX guaranteed it would win the jackpot by buying virtually every one of the nearly 26 million possible six-number combinations in the drawing, held in April 2023.

Wake up Call to Action! Trump presents as a mentally deranged narcissistic demigod and is a criminal (based on well documented facts, law, and due process). Yes, he was elected by the people; but by a campaign paid for by oligarchs and mis/disinformation.

“I’ll just have me a little heart attack.” Years before Fred Sanford started his manipulative chestclutching, I utilized that phrase whenever I wanted to get my childish way. Family anecdotes of that youthful threat weren’t quite so cute when my father died of a massive heart attack, 25 years ago this month.

International Space Station (ISS): Hello, Houston, Starliner crew Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams here. Any word on when we can return home? Houston: Hey, guys.

A bill to implement school vouchers in Texas sailed through the Senate largely on party lines last week and now awaits consideration in the House, the Austin American-Statesman reported. House Speaker Dustin Burrows, RLubbock, said he believes there are enough votes in that chamber to pass the legislation, which was defeated a half-dozen times in 2023 by a coalition of Democratic and rural Republican members.