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Progressive Health of Fayette Provides Update on LG Hospital Reopening Efforts

5 hours ago By Press Release From Progressive Health Of Fayette

Progressive Health of Fayette would like to provide clarification regarding the ongoing efforts to reopen the hospital and address questions surrounding the timeline and funding of the project. Progressive Health of Fayette is actively working toward reopening the hospital and restoring access to local healthcare services for the Fayette community.

The La Grange hospital has been closed since Oct. 2023.

Presence of Grace

5 hours ago By Gordon Butler, Pastor

What will it take for us to believe that it is true? I mean, do we understand what is at work here? Are we really that clueless, that fearful, that cynical? Grace. I am talking about the presence of grace.

SpaceX, Tesla Make Grimes Plant Official

5 hours ago By Gary Borders

C APITAL Highlights What CEO Elon Musk says will be the world’s largest computer chip manufacturing plant is planned for Grimes County, east of College Station, the Austin American-Statesman reported. In a joint announcement last week, Space X and Tesla unveiled an initial $16.8 billion investment in a plant called Terafab.

SpaceX, Tesla Make Grimes Plant Official

Jackson Sends “Scamp” to Buy Back Texas

5 hours ago By Bartee Haile

Col. Anthony Butler strutted like a peacock out of the White House onAug. 13, 1829 with a six-figure line of credit and secret orders to make the Mexicans an offer they could not refuse.

Andrew Jackson regarded the Rio Grande realm as “lost” territory, a legitimate part of the Louisiana Purchase which the Monroe Administration had seen fit to surrender to Spain. Five months into his presidency, he decided to buy Texas back and settled on five million dollars as a fair price.

Sixty Years On, the Voting Rights Act Still Matters

5 hours ago By News Staff

Guest Column from the League of Women Voters of South Central Texas This year, in honor of the 250th anniversary of American independence, our League of Women Voters columns are devoted to the rights and freedoms at the heart of our nation’s founding. This month, as we mark the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, we turn to a right that makes all others possible: the right to vote.

Show Me the Evidence

5 hours ago By News Staff

To the editor: Democrat, Independent, Republican? If you’re eligible to vote, you’ve got a dog in this hunt. The issue is election security, and it’s one of the dominant issues in the fall mid-term elections.

Old Enough to Have an Excuse

5 hours ago By Margo Johnson

I’m glad to be my age. Being called “old,” “elderly,” “wise,” “aged,” “over the hill,” or whatever term is currently being used for someone who has been around awhile allows me to explain—or excuse— many of my failings.

We Should Not Have to Live in This Kind of Fear

5 hours ago By News Staff

To the Editor: Recently, on August 10th, I approached the La Grange City council with a few concerns I have had about the community in this town. This concern was that of the involvement of ICE in our local community and how the local law enforcement will ensure everyone’s safety.

Why Isn’t Our Governor Protecting Parks?

5 hours ago By News Staff

To the editor: People of Fayette County Texas, explain to me, as a resident of Muldoon, why our illustrious Governor has not been against the ruining of the parks in the south ? Building a wall in Texas’s historic parks, both of them, is a crime. Daniel B.

How Much More Can We Afford

5 hours ago By News Staff

To the editor: About 1765 the American Colonist initiated the slogan “No Taxation without Representation.” Now, some 260 years later, The Fayette Electric Co-op Board wants to raise rates again. The Fayette County Commissioners Court are looking to increase the tax revenue amount.

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