I recently listened to an interview with Bishop Robert Barron and Vice President JD Vance on YouTube, which if I am honest, was one of the most articulate and intelligent interviews I have listened to of a politician in a while. It was refreshing to say the least. During the interview, Vice President Vance clarifies the goodness of the Church clearly speaking out on moral issues, so that citizens and politicians like himself can wrestle with moral principles in the political realm. I believe one of those moral issues that is important for us to wrestle with in our conscience, even on the local level, is that of immigration.

On Aug. 4, 1925, Conrad Hilton celebrated the grand opening of the first hotel he built from the ground up and the first he put his name on the Dallas Hilton.

C APITAL Highlights The Midland school district is suing Education Commissioner Mike Morath and other state leaders in another challenge to the state’s public school finance system, known as “Robin Hood,” according to The Texas Tribune. Three legal challenges over the past three decades have failed, with Texas courts ruling that the recapture system complies with the state constitution.

There is a mighty hunger in my world for authenticity. The more we find online and media life blurred by AI into replicas we can’t trust, the more we want something real.

To the editor: “Oh what tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” I’ve often wondered how many times Sir Walter Scott’s famous quotation from his 1808 poem “Marmion” have echoed the inner thoughts of men and women when they are still and allow their conscience to speak. Obviously, the message of Scott’s prophetic words conveys that once a lie or dishonesty begins, it perpetuates into a host of other complications that require further lies or dishonesty to maintain the original deception, bringing with it eventual calamity.

If you’ve driven Interstate 10 between Columbus and Sealy lately, you’ve probably noticed something big is happening. Lanes have shifted, construction crews are everywhere, and the highway seems to be taking on a new shape. It’s easy to assume that engineers simply drew a line on a map and started moving dirt.

In this time of political unrest in the United States, a friend mentioned humming and the various known and unknown benefits it supposedly offers one’s mental health. Don’t call me a skeptic, but what could hummers possibly gain by breathing deeply, closing their mouths, and pushing air and noise out through their noses? I’m not against humming unless, of course, I am traveling from level one to level 115 in a slow elevator with someone attempting to calm her nerves through facial vibration.

To the editor: There are good things happening in our country, credit due to our 47th President, Donald J. Trump, who loves America, apparently much more than the cushy life he could be living.

To the editor: I am so blessed to be a citizen of a country where I have freedom of choice. However, if I use that freedom to make choices that are detrimental to me, that freedom ultimately does me no good.

To the editor: There have been numerous articles about data centers and how they have the ability to use vast amounts of electricity and cooling water. Our civic leaders need to get beyond the possibility of employment opportunities and tax dollars needed for city and county coffers.