To the editor: In the last six years, 38 states and D.C. have legalized sports gambling.

To the editor: Over the past few months I’ve read, studied, and considered the many letters written concerning suggested solutions to La Granges notorious highway hazard known as the bluff road. Having spent some years as a Texas Highway Patrolman l’m quite familiar with traffic control and with meeting and managing the public.

To the editor: And yet another Democratic Party luminary has come out against the First Amendment guarantee of unfettered political speech. John Kerry has joined the home-grown totalitarians Hillary Clinton, Gavin Newsom, Tim Walz, and even current vice-president and Democratic Party presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, in negating their former oaths of office by suggesting free speech should have limits.

It’s still September as I’m writing this, but that doesn’t matter. As of last night, October’s here.

A mentor priest of mine once gave a conference about hobos. That’s right, hobos. Hobos first came about after theAmerican Civil War. Many men were displaced around the country and they began heading back home. The hobos were known for jumping on trains and stopping from town to town for the journey was long. Although there are a couple of theories about the etymology of the word hobo, my mentor, Father Swift, always insisted upon one. Hobo, he told me, comes from the contraction of ho-meward bo-und. From these hobos, Father Swift went on to say, we can learn an important lesson about the spiritual life. After all, Abraham the Patriarch and St. Paul were hobos too: As St. Paul says to the Corinthians, “We are fools on Christ’s account ... to this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clad and roughly treated, we wander about without a home.” (1 Cor. 4:1011) Similar to Abraham who wandered in the desert as he led the people of Israel to the promised land, St. Paul also saw himself as a pilgrim, as a wanderer spreading the good news of Jesus Christ. Abraham and St. Paul were hobos. They lived their life homeward bound, desiring “a better country, that is, a heavenly one.” As Father Swift likes to say, Abraham and St. Paul were hobos for heaven, homeward bound for heaven.

T EXAS History The Dallas Texans, first pro football team in the Southwest, proved their season opening defeat was no fluke by losing 37-14 to the San Francisco 49’ers on Oct. 5, 1952.

To the editor: Since citing Scripture for political purposes seems to be the order of the day in the Opinion section of the Record in last Friday’s September 13 edition, I encourage all voters and lawmakers and governors and presidential candidates alike to read and pray over the following Words of our Lord Jesus found in Matthew 25 before voting whether it be for or against a bill or for or against a candidate: “...’For I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’Then they will also answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You? Then He will answer them, saying, “Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it for Me.’ And they will then go away into everlasting punishment...’’ And for the likely excuses to follow from extreme right wing writers to the Record, be reminded of the following words of Our Lord’s Prayer: “...Thy kingdom come, Thy Will be done, ON EARTH as it is in heaven...” John W. Mikus Houston .

To the editor: The most dangerous place on Earth – Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Israel, Chicago – They don’t even come close. Shielded from the outside world, a mother’s womb should be the safest place on earth.

To the editor: I find it hysterical that Cindy would claim Harris/Walz doesn’t respect the rule of law while she obviously supports a 34x convicted felon who helped to incite a seditious riot in an attempt to subvert the law & the will of the people on Jan. 6, 2021.