House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, narrowly won re-election in a hotly contested runoff race and has vowed to seek his third term as speaker, drawing threats from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to oppose any of his supporters in the 2024 primary.

“I’ve done it twice, Phelan told The Dallas Morning News. “I’ll do it a third time.” But Patrick was quick to threaten opposition to any representative supporting Phelan’s bid.

The instant Robert Ervin Howard learned his comatose mother was not long for this world, the fantasy writer decided Jun. 11, 1936 would be his last day on earth.

Bob Howard was born in 1906 at Peaster but left the wide-spot-in-the-road while still in diapers. His father, a footloose country doctor, dragged his frail wife and only child from town to town before finally settling down at Cross Plains southeast of Abilene.