The House Interim Study Committee on Aggregate Production Operations (House APO Committee) is looking for your input! Every even-numbered year, the legislature assembles study committees to examine issues brought up in the previous legislative session that require more research and discussion. Those committees issue reports upon which future legislation can be built.

Ladies and Gentlemen: It’s early days yet. Presently we are ranked ninth in the state but I have a saying.

Sept. 11, 2001, was deadline day at the Bowie County Citizens Tribune and DeKalb News in New Boston, Texas. As managing editor, I had already gone in to work early, as is usually the case on deadline day, to start editing copy and laying out pages for our Wednesday edition.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an excerpt by Marble Falls EDC Executive Director Christian Fletcher on the entity’s website titled COVID and the MF Economy. Last week, we released a video highlighting some projects in different parts of the community, and it was fairly well-received.

Whether you are in an urban community or rural Texas, the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on our families, businesses, communities, and schools are far-reaching. What is clear beyond the coronavirus’ public health impact is the significant inequities that the pandemic has laid bare, and our state must address.

As thousands fled southeast Texas ahead of Hurricane Laura, Texas A&M promoted an Ike Dike as a critical way to protect the region from devastating damage. Texas escaped a direct hit from Laura, which made landfall as a Category 4 storm in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, just east of Port Arthur.

Thank you firefighters, first responders and volunteers for all you do! First day of Autumn is Tuesday, Sept. 22 this year.

Students across Texas returned to campuses last week as schools and universities scrambled to put into place new lesson plans that best accommodate a pandemic. For many school districts, this meant greatly expanding the technological resources of their students to support a mix of in-person and online education.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Roger Williams (R-Austin) sent a letter last week to U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Chad Wolf, requesting an update on the implementation of Non-Intrusive Inspection (NII) technology at the southern border.

I was disappointed to read the (Tuesday, Aug. 4, The Highlander) guest column by Denise Rives, which covered a broad array of topics but eventually settled on attacking mask-wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic as being un-American, unhelpful, and even downright harmful.