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A bill to implement school vouchers in Texas sailed through the Senate largely on party lines last week and now awaits consideration in the House, the Austin American-Statesman reported. House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, said he believes there are enough votes in that chamber to pass the legislation, which was defeated a half-dozen times in 2023 by a coalition of Democratic and rural Republican members.
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The Stafford Opera House has reigned over nearby Columbus since the mid–1880s though tarnished now and then and often neglected by multiple owners.
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Are you a used food collector? If so, you are not alone. Growing up, we were expected not to waste food and there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s the leftovers that keep getting left over and sometimes for a great deal of time that come into question. Questions like, “How long has this been in here?” and “What the heck is this?” often come up but are rarely answered completely.
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has released his top 25 legislative priorities as the legislative session gets underway, The Texas Tribune reported.
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One week ago, the City of Navasota, the Navasota Police Department and our community lost one of our bravest and best. There is a hole in our hearts that cannot be repaired. There is no fixing this. We can’t go back in time to change things. But yet, the heartbreak is ever so palpable, it weighs on us like a dark cloud of heavy sadness, thick as a brick. We grieve the loss as if it was one of our own family members.
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I had a different article I was going to write about this week but considering the circumstances of the recent loss of one of our hometown heroes, Navasota Police Department Sgt. Mark Butler, I chose to write about something more appropriate and will come back to that one another day.
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Was there a Texas Famine in the drought years of 1885 through 1888? The Handbook of Texas makes no mention of famine at that time. It only refers to a blizzard in the fall of 1886 into 1887 that covered the Great Plains in more than 16 inches of snow with temperatures dropping to nearly 50 below.
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The Texas Senate’s chief budget writer said state agencies and higher-education institutions have requested nearly $25 billion in funding as the legislative session gets underway. State Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, told The Dallas Morning News the requests for new money reflect the growing functions and purposes of state agencies that serve the public.
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