T EXAS History After speaking for 21 straight hours in the Texas Senate, the freshman lawmaker from San Antonio finally yielded the floor on May 3, 1957. The parents of Enrique Barbosa Gonzalez were among the 430,000 Mexicans that poured into Texas during the first two decades of the twentieth century.

This article is a recurring column sharing public information and insight on St Mark’s Medical Center, the needs for health care in Fayette County, and a path forward. Each year St.

To the Editor: I grew up on a farm near a small town. I went to school in that small town through 12th grade.

To the Editor: Abraham Lincoln was born an American. He revered his country’s freedoms and principles of self government.And he served it as president and healer when the schisms of those ideals — in a world ordered by the tyrannies of subjugation — were rendering its failure.

To the Editor: The formation of a book committee to “curate school library book purchases” has caused concern for a recent letter writer. I think the author has confused parental concerns to protect their children’s innocence with tolerating the infiltration of inappropriate content for their age/maturity into the school library.

To the Editor: I am writing in response to Justin McCord’s recent letter regarding attacks on the LGBTQ community. I wholeheartedly agree with Mr.

“When was the last time you frolicked?” I was asked recently. Well, let’s see.

To the Editor: Let’s start by saying that the term “gun violence” is a misnomer. There is just violence.

To the Editor: Random questions that come to mind: Did someone or something seize control of the United States? What happened to the US Border? Where did it go? Who erased it? Why and how did 5 million people enter our country illegally? Did Congress secretly repeal our immigration laws? Did President Biden issue an executive order allowing foreign nationals to walk across the border and reside in the US as they pleased? Since when did educational costs not have to be paid back? Who insisted that the more dollars the federal government printed, the more prosperity would follow? When did America embrace zero interest? Why do we believe 30 trillion in debt is no big deal? When did clean-burning, cheap, and abundant natural gas become the equivalent of dirty coal? How did prized natural gas that had granted America’s wishes of energy self- sufficiency, reduced pollution, and inexpensive electricity become almost overnight a pariah fuel whose extraction was a war against nature? Which lawmakers, which laws, which votes of the people declared natural gas development and pipelines near criminal? Was it not against federal law to swarm the homes of Supreme Court justices, to picket and to intimidate their households in efforts to affect their rulings? How then with impunity did bullies surround the homes of Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, John Roberts, and Clarence Thomas - furious over a court decision on abortion? How could these mobs so easily throng our justices’ homes with placards declaring death to them and their families? To be continued…..more questions to come in future issues with the answer to follow..

The Texas Senate unanimously approved a $308 billion two-year budget last week, the Austin American-Statesman reported. The next step is to reconcile that budget with one passed earlier by the Texas House.