House Kills School Choice Plan
The Texas House on Friday defeated a proposed voucher plan, also leaving in doubt a comprehensive public school funding plan that became tied to it, The Dallas Morning News reported. A coalition of rural Republicans and Democrats joined together to take education savings accounts out of the bill by an 84-63 margin.
Texas Courtroom Scene of Historic Trial
On Nov. 24, 1923, a Fort Worth jury came back with a verdict in the federal fraud trial of disgraced explorer, Dr. Frederick Albert Cook.
A decade and a half earlier, scientists and the public alike were forced to choose between the competing claims of Dr. Cook, who insisted he was the first to reach the North Pole in April 1908, and Robert Edwin Peary, who claimed he pulled off the polar feat a year later almost to the day.
Talking Turkey
Don’t Shy Away from Politics, Religion at the Holiday Table Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday. For one it seems to have largely been able to fly under the radar and avoid much of the corporate influence faced by many major holidays in modern society, but its primary merit lies in the values that it celebrates and is meant to encourage.