Enthusiasm is half the battle in any endeavour. Quality over quantity might be the other half of the equation.

Monday I opened up the parents’ survey about the new four-day-school-week being considered by La Grange Independent School District. Dam it, I was stumped by the first question.

T exas History On Feb. 17, 1848, Thomas Jefferson Rusk stepped out of Sam Houston’s giant shadow long enough to give his maiden speech in the United States Senate, a vigorous defense of the Mexican War.

To the Editor: In my “opinion” there is way too much negativity being recorded and reported regarding the outcome of Nov. 5, 2024 and the inauguration date of Jan.

To the Editor: As I read the letters to the Editor in last Friday’s FC Record, I was reminded of a line from Victor David Hanson’s commentary in the Daily Signal, Jan. 24, 2025, “Donald Trump won the 2024 election in part because the Left’s hysterical style of attacking him no longer worked.” It still doesn’t.

To the Editor: Our country is overrun with people from as many as 160 different countries. Until our recent Presidential change, these folks have been imported by NGOs or they crossed our borders illegally.

To the Editor: Here is the transcript from a speech given by Texas State Representative James Talarico, District 50 concerning school vouchers. Jaci Elliott Schulenburg Six years ago, Greg Abbott showed up at a school in my district – Parmer Lane Elementary.

Sunday afternoon, Feb. 2, a crowd of 50-plus folks gathered at Flatonia’s Lyric Theater to watch the documentary film, “For The Record.” A 35-minute unfolding of the life of a small-town newspaper, this one in Canadian, TX, a rural community in the Panhandle, was an intense, up-close-and-personal account of the struggle by a single owner-manager to keep this family-owned, 130-yearold paper publishing the local news, all through the Covid-era decline in social and business activity and the simultaneous continuous loss of advertising revenue to the Internet.

Jesus extends an invitation at the end of his most famous sermon. His invitation is unlike others you have likely heard. He doesn’t invite people to say a prayer or give their lives to him. What is his invitation? It is to act. It is to put his words into practice. The invitation is so important he gives it twice (Matt. 7:21, 24), and compares the person who embraces it to a wise man who builds his home on a solid foundation.

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