To the Editor: Are we ready for it? Probably not. Every mineral owner needs to prepare for it now.

To the Editor: As I listened to news reports on cases the current administration brought to the Supreme Court, and other courts, I was reading H. W.

To the Editor: After following the arguments for allowing public funds to be used for private schools and an article mentioning Abbott’s signing of the bill to provide for attending private schools I have been in shock. All this posturing for the use of public money designated for schools to be used for students to attend private schools is appalling.

To the Editor: In my opinion, Michael McCaul has failed this district. As he continues to support reprehensible statements and un-American actions of the presidential administration, McCaul also parrots the worst inclinations of Republicans.

To the Editor: The political news of years past talked about the Nation’s Debt being too high and today’s news is continuing the same story. When it was in the low teens just a few years ago, it was considered a crisis.

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.” (Rom. 12:2) Being a Christian is a journey to be transformed into the image of Jesus. Every person, from Hitler to Mother Teresa, is created in the image of God (Gen. 1:26-27). When we enter the world, we encounter sin, and sin corrupts the image of God within us. Salvation sets us on a path to be made holy. We sometimes call this sanctification. As we behold the glory of the Lord, we are being transformed into the image of Jesus (2 Cor. 3:18). We meditate on Christ. We study his life. We do what he says, and we become like him.

Leaders from the Texas House and Senate have agreed on an $8 billion school funding package, which is being called the largest in state history, The Dallas Morning News reported. The latest version of House Bill 2 was unveiled at a Senate hearing Thursday.

Fossils met Artificial Intelligence in an old gravel pit on my sister’s 60th birthday recently. What a marvelous convergence of the very old and the very modern.

The sensational murder trial of 24 Texans, denied bail and held for months in an open-air stockade, began at Jefferson on May 24, 1869. George Washington Smith was a veteran of the Union Army, whose chief claim to fame was a flesh wound sustained at the Battle of Gettysburg.

St. Paul Lutheran in Serbin will have their Annual Picnic on Sunday May 25 at the Serbin Picnic Grounds.