T EXAS History On Feb. 4, 1896, three days after her drunk of a husband threatened her with a butcher knife, Matilda Brown Sweeney moved back home to Ashton Villa where she spent the rest of her life.

To the Editor: I am writing in response to a portion of a couple of recent letters to the editor that expressed misleading and incomplete picture of the events that transpired on Jan. 6.

To the Editor: I would like to share the message from Texas Tribune today that is much more realistic of what I actually saw on live TV on 1/6/21 than Sandy Hooper’s letter in 1/17/25 FCR. You can read the story by going to texastribune.org then search for the story titled “More than 100 Texans active in the Jan.

To the Editor: This headline was disappointing to many but not unexpected; “Democrat coalition propels Dustin Burrows to Speaker of the Texas House.” Does this mean conservative Republicans lost? No. Phelan was defeated.

To the Editor: The author of a recent Letter to the Editor would have us believe “Thanks to the leadership of President Biden oil production in America is at its highest level in history.” Actually oil production in America has increased in spite of Biden’s policies not because of them. Biden campaigned on putting the oil companies out of business.

To the Editor: Americans across races, places, and parties value our freedoms, and so we watched in horror as violent insurrectionists attacked our country on Jan. 6, 2021, incited by Trump and MAGA Republicans.

To the Editor: As a new citizen of La Grange, I read with great interest of The City Council’s intention to re-brand our town. Part of this effort will be to find a new slogan.

It’s hard to find someone in Fayette County that doesn’t know about Second Chance Emporium. And if you’ve found yourself in line, anxiously waiting for the store to open on a Friday morning, it kind of feels like everyone in La Grange just might be standing in line with you. Simply put, Second Chance is remarkable.

T EXAS History Gene Austin, the original crooner whose recordings sold 86 million copies in the Twenties and Thirties, lost his battle with lung cancer on Jan. 24, 1972.

C APITAL Highlights The Texas Legislature begins its work creating a state budget for the next two years with slightly less revenue available than it had during the previous biennium. Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar projects lawmakers will have $194.6 billion available during the 2026-27 budget cycle, down 1.1%.