With a quorum-breaking number of House Democrats still out of state, House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, gaveled the first special session to an end Friday. Gov. Greg Abbott immediately called a second special session that has already convened.

T EXAS History On Aug. 23, 1892, a Gainesville newspaper confirmed the rumored death of a local politician turned train robber.

While reading Jeff Wick’s recent column “What I learned in Kindergarten” printed in the Record, I also had a flash back which I relived – tears and all. Do any of you know what ring worm is? Then you know how itchy and red and burning this is especially when a little six-year-old girl with long thick hair had ringworm on her head.

To the editor: My name is Brian de Leon. I went to the Schulenburg Rodeo and Festival this year with my friends and thoroughly enjoyed my experience.

To the Editor: Suddenly there seems to be an uproar over the possible redistricting in California. Texas Republicans including Governor Abbott have called it a political maneuver and accused Governor Newsom of a power grab.

To the Editor: I appreciate the support shown in Les Mallory’s and Tom Hill’s Letters to the Editor and would like to add one more/most important point to how people can help: get animals spayed and neutered. This, in my opinion, would be the biggest help of all.

To the Editor: I learned from the CBS nightly Austin news, “the Texas House Democrat Caucus had issued two demands as ‘conditions’ for their return.” Why should the political leaders or the citizens of Texas consider “demands” from elected legislators who abandoned the people they were elected to represent? These ‘wandering’ elected legislators were not interested in representing their constituents. They left the state so they could avoid voting on the issue of correcting fair citizen representation.

To the Editor: The Fayette County Republican Party would like to express its full support for the Fayette County Fair Board’s recent decision to not include political booths at this year’s county fair. For generations, the county fair has been a place where families, friends, and neighbors come together to enjoy the best of our community — from livestock shows and carnival rides to live music, great food, cold Pivo and time honered traditions.

August 15-19, 1975 A rash of weekend breakins had Fayette County sheriff’s officers working around the clock. Two of the burglaries occurred Friday night.

As we begin this new school year, I have the great honor of periodically watching many parents, especially mothers, drop their kids off for school. As mothers reading this know, there are many things that the heart of a mother experiences when she drops off her child for pre-k or kindergarten for the very first time. Or when her awkward, hormone-raging middle schooler begins high school. Or the experience of a mom who helps her senior in high school paint their parking spot: the first of many final, special memories in the child’s educational career. In God’s great plan for creation, I believe there are not too many more beautiful things to witness in life, than to see a mother give her everything to her children; her body, her emotions, her worries, her time, her talents, and most especially her love.