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The meeting of the KJZT St. Anne’s Society No.

On Monday Dec. 5, LGISD held a public hearing regarding Monarch Energy Development LLC’s Application for Appraised Value Limitation. (FYI-Chapter 313 of the Texas Tax Code expires Dec. 31, 2022.) The hearing was well attended by the public. I estimate there were about 50+ in the audience. In my opinion, and that of 99% of last night’s attendees, other than the $4 million LGISD would eventually get from Monarch, there is nothing positive about allowing this plant to be built in Fayette County. It will be another industrial eyesore and consume mass quantities of our water resources. Monarch estimates 1,500 acre-feet per year. That equates to about 1.4 million gallons of water per day, but Monarch claims this will have no impact on property owners. Really? Monarch said the plant’s building(s) alone will require about 20 acres of land. Although it’s part of their proposal, they couldn’t tell us what type of “renewable energy” will be utilized to power the plant. It’s more beautiful, productive land destroyed.

For conservative voters the mid-term elections did not go as we all wished. If we want to do better next time, there are three things we must change.

Our parents, Frank and Lucile Burttschell, were needing assistance with day-to-day activities, so we brought them to Jefferson Place in March this year. We have been amazed at all the kind and loving care that they have received over these last nine months ...

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This story happened around 1947 when my younger sister, Virginia, was just getting her front teeth. I guess that would put her about one year old and I would be four going on five.

William F. Buckley’s dad, a sharp-tongued Texan who always spoke his mind, reviled Mexican revolutionaries as south-of-theborder Bolsheviks in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Dec. 13, 1919.

Years ago, I had a relative by marriage who could be painfully honest, even if in a kidding way. For instance, upon arrival for a three day holiday gathering at their home, he announced as we came up the front steps with five year old Melissa in tow, “Welcome! We’re always glad to see you come.

Dec. 1, 1972 Santa Claus sent official word that he would arrive on the Square in La Grange on Friday at 3:30 p.m.

In addition to my recent argument against the Fed raising interest rates that only serve to penalize working families and small business owners and for systemic economic reforms needed in America to reduce the big ticket living and operating expenses of families and small business owners that makes the rate of inflation itself pale in comparison are the following additional and long overdue inflation remedies: There is a need for a clean energy and domestic natural gas economy in the U.S. to substantially reduce the cost of living and the cost of operating a small business. The cost of investing in such clean energy economy in the U.S. could be quickly paid for in the short term by ending the huge annual funding of the free security of international oil companies in the Middle East by U.S. taxpayers (e.g., the $7 trillion cost of the needless Iraqi War II). Those annual savings would enable U.S. taxpayer investment in public research and development in areas that the private sector will not risk (e.g. pandemic vaccines, the internet, weather and communication satellites, clean and efficient energy production, and hydraulic fracturing and how to environmentally control its harmful elements and public education, especially pre-K education that is essential for a economically disadvantaged child’s later success in life.)