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Appreciation Regarding Pavel Visit

1 year ago By News Staff

To the editor: To our family and friends in Fayette County and beyond… Wow, what a day it was! We asked you to come out to the Texas Czech Heritage and Cultural Center and welcome Czech President Petr Pavel and First Lady Eva Pavlova, and you delivered in a huge way. The President and First Lady were genuinely moved by the warm wishes and love you showed.

Don’t Unite Unwisely

1 year ago By News Staff

To the editor: Fear and loathing driven by deceit missed its target, and those who bear the guilt will do little more than raise their voices against “violent rhetoric” which they themselves perpetrated. And all of that ilk now hope this will shield them from the misfortuned consequences of their own corrupt lust for power.

LG City Matters

1 year ago By News Staff

To the editor: Citizens of La Grange, as your community activist, I was thrilled to see the participation at the last city council meeting. Among the topics of complaints were the location of the bypass and wind turbines.

My Take on Cryptocurrency

1 year ago By Annette Citzler

Dear readers, here is my take on cryptocurrency, the most well-known of which is Bitcoin, held in on-line, password- secured accounts. I don’t own any of this, unless one of my retirement funds has invested in and holds a tiny fraction of its portfolio in one cryptocurrency or another, unbeknownst to me. That does NOT mean I am disinterested in the phenomenon, and especially its “mining,” or creation via running endless computations through networks of computers (so-called “data centers”), thereby consuming electric energy that Texas may be scarcely equipped to provide during extremely high demand times (very high or very low temperatures).

Benefit of Cooperation

1 year ago By David E. Will

Cooperatives or “Co-ops” were formed to help a group of people with the same interest to buy products cheaper by buying in bulk. Members pool their money together and buy goods and then share the expenses in some agreedupon manner. Co-ops seem to work well, but I have never belonged to one. I buy a few things from them, and it helps the local economy. But they don’t often carry the things I need.

Abbott Demands Probe Into Power Outages

1 year ago By Gary Borders

CAPITAL Highlights

More than 2 million Texans lost power when Hurricane Beryl hit the Texas coast, and Gov. Greg Abbott wants to know why. The Austin American-Statesman reported Abbott has ordered the Public Utility Commission to conduct an immediate study into why the Houston area has again been hit by widespread power outages.

Texans Strike Gold at Helsinki Olympics

1 year ago By Bartee Haile

TEXAS History

With the Summer Games in Paris only days away, let’s take a look back at the XV Olympics that began in Helsinki, Finland on Jul. 19, 1952 and featured gold-medal performances from six different Texans.

In the high jump held on opening day, Walter “Buddy” Davis of Texas A&M was the favorite despite his inexperience. The Nederland product had gone to College Station on a basketball scholarship and lived up to high expectations by blossoming into a star.

Remember When?

1 year ago By July 12-16, 1974

The U.S. was in the grip of inflation more severe than anything experienced in its peacetime history, according to Texas Agricultural Extension Service Home Management Specialist Mrs. Doris Myers. Since 1900, the cost of living had climbed 54 years, stayed about the same for seven years and went down in only 13. Reports in U.S. News and World Report showed that a 1900 $1 bought the same amount that a consumer would pay nearly $6 for in 1974. American workers’ buying power peaked during 1971 and 1973, before heading downhill. The Consumer Price Index was 10.7% higher than in May 1973. A typical worker with a wife and two children who received a $330 raise in 1973 actually suffered a decrease in buying power of $362.00.

Painting with Words

1 year ago By Margo Johnson

What did I just read? I don’t think that makes much sense. What am I attempting to say? Often those are the questions I ask after reading a draft of one of my columns.

Court Rulings

1 year ago By News Staff

To the editor: Two Letters to the Editor in last week’s Record excoriated the United States Supreme Court for its recent decision on presidential immunity. One letter accused “the MAGA Justices on our Supreme Court” of inviting “Trump to get away with crimes.” The other letter tells us that “the delusional and extreme majority of our Supreme Court makes a decision to declare that the president of the United States is above the law.” Actually, the U.S.

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