To the Editor: Wouldn’t it be nice if on Election Day no one showed up to vote. 100% had voted early.

To the Editor: I was moved to reply to the front-page article regarding Becky Snyder’s opinion of the need for an apology from the school board to the librarians. From what I read in the article, the librarians were never insulted, but the books being put into the school system were.

“How’s that? Better here or here? What about here or here? Ok. Is it better here or here?” Click. “Okay. How about this? Is it better here or here? Okay. Is it better with 1 or 2? 2 or 1?” Click. “Okay, read the smallest line possible.”

Living in a rural area offers many advantages—unobscured sunrises and sunsets, skies lit only by stars, the sounds of birdsong and breezes wafting through the trees instead of traffic and industry noise. However, this city girl still needs her “city fix,” so I regularly make the 60-mile trip to Katy, a suburb of Houston, to shop, meet friends for lunch, get my hair cut and get my car washed.

T EXAS History Nov. 4, 1940 was “Dealey Day” at the University of Texas as “Mr.

To the Editor: Recent editions of your paper have told the tale of a Hospital run into financial ruin by a group hired to operate it at a profit, but they failed. Then HUD takes it for the balance owed and sells it, not for the roughly 13 million dollars it is valued fairly at, but, they sell it for $806,000.

Sara Mazariegos wrote recently a blog entitled “Have You Ever Talked to a Corpse--its boring.” https://saramazariegos. com/2024/10/09/have-youever- talked-to-a-corpse-itsboring/ I have talked to a corpse, and actually it wasn’t boring but rather hilarious.

This week the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned of an E.

“And he said to her, ‘Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.’” (Luke 8:48) There is a story in the Gospels about a woman desperate for help. She has had a medical condition for twelve years, and no one has done anything to ease her suffering.

C The federal judge who has repeatedly found Texas in contempt for not fixing its foster care system has been removed by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a three-judge panel faulting U.S.