The U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe vs.

When, in 1901, it came to the motivation behind the City Council of El Paso to preserve the safety of its citizenry, the phrase “We aim to please” took on a whole new meaning. We’re not talking about taking dead aim, as with a revolver, because, believe it or not, in that deep-in-the heart-of-Texas-city, at that time, “pistol totin’ ” was illegal.

I was once a runner. Not a jogger, but a runner.

The speed of life these days is becoming dangerous. We in the lesser bustle of rural Texas tend not to give it much attention. But five dollar gas and woke shaming lunacies are changing that. Our families and our nation’s culture of freedom and independence are now at peril. As our leaders and media struggle to define what matters or is true or relevant, the simple declaratives of daily life are descending into a growing cloud of obfuscation. We all need to stop for a moment and consider where we are going with some help from remembering where we have been.

To The Editor: I wish President Biden would quit saying during the rare speeches that he makes that he has brought all-time highs to our country with jobs and new businesses. Fact is, some people are having to come out now to actually work, since some of our taxpayer money is no longer paying people to sit at home.

To The Editor: Today pain is everywhere although different segments of our multi-national country may be feeling it for the first time or greater than ever. How did we get here? Complacency and comfort over time.

To The Editor: With the Jan. 6 committee about half-way finished telling their findings, the picture couldn’t be more vivid or clear.

Dazed, depressed and at the end of his rope, Samuel W. Jordan wandered the streets of New Orleans on Jun.

It’s 2 a.m., Monday July 8, 1966, in the sleepy little town of Columbus. Like most other small towns of the period, they “rolled the sidewalks up” at or before midnight. Arnold Knippel, the only policeman in the town of 3,500 has been making his rounds to see that everything is secure. He is taking a coffee break in one of the only all-night restaurants in town probably with the intent of calling it a night. Suddenly, one of Columbus leading citizens and his wife rush in and tell Arnold that their son is very restless and making lots of noise in his part of the house. They asked Arnold if he would go and talk to their twenty-year-old son, Tom Massey, to get him to calm down and go to bed. They are afraid that he is going to tear up the house. Young Massey has a history of mental instability and has been under psychiatric treatment. Hollis Massey, the father, is a prominent lawyer in Columbus and is friends with Chief Knippel as is his son, Tom. Arnold leaves and goes to the Massey home at 330 Smith St. to talk with young Tom only to be met by young Massey who fires two blasts from a shot gun into the Chief, who died instantly. Young Massey is quickly tried and determined to be insane. He is sentenced to Rusk State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

State Comptroller Glenn Hegar last week released his agency’s plan to support the expansion of broadband internet access to areas with limited or no access. Hegar and his agency’s Broadband Development Office received feedback through a series of town halls, virtual discussions and more than 16,000 responses to a survey.