The 87th session of the Texas Legislature opened Tuesday with COVID-19 encompassing every aspect of what the lawmakers do, according to new House Speaker Dade Phelan.
“COVID, obviously, it will be a blanket over the entire session,” Phelan told his hometown TV station, KFDM Channel 6, in Beaumont. “We will deal with it in every aspect of policy.
Gemütlichkeit is one of those German words that has no precise English equivalent. It is tricky to spell and only a German can pronounce it properly. It has nothing to do with sneezing.
Google says gemütlichkeit is a noun meaning “comfort, coziness or friendliness,” but that’s like saying Lyndon Johnson was a politician or Chester Nimitz a sailor.
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Gemütlichkeit is a complex component of German social life.
2020 has certainty been a year of years. I do not need to recount the events of this year; we all know them too well. It is just strange to think that it was less than a year ago since we impeached the president, yet it seems more like a decade.
Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) was a forester, a conservationist, a teacher, a hunter, a naturalist and an extremely talented and prolific writer who lived in the first half of the twentieth century. He is most famous for writing “A Sand County Almanac”, although he also wrote a textbook on game management and over 500 articles, essays and papers on all aspects of conservation and the natural world.
It’s a new year, but the news out of the capital continues to focus on COVID-19.
Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted last week that “a significant portion of vaccines distributed across Texas might be sitting on hospital shelves as opposed to being given to vulnerable Texans. The state urges vaccine providers to quickly provide all shots.
A fellow I know was grousing about the past year.
His birthday was coming up and he felt, once again, that this year failed to meet his expectations. He was unhappy with the year, unhappy with himself, unhappy with the fact that he’d even allowed himself to hope that 2020, of all years, was going to be better than the previous ones.
“My caring isn’t going to make any difference in how things work out,” he told me.
This hard year is almost over. Now it’s time to look to our future and imagine what’s possible. Texas has six key challenges that we could overcome if our state leaders seek to tackle them.
— Only 30% of Texas fourth graders meet grade-level reading standards.
Wide education achievement gaps separate students from different backgrounds, and data suggests COVID-related school closures are hurting students’ progress.
Addressing this challenge starts with measuring existing gaps th ...
Texans urged to roll up their sleeves
Gov. Greg Abbott and other Texas leaders are rolling up their sleeves to get the COVID-19 vaccine and to encourage the public to follow suit.
“I will never ask any Texan to do something that I’m not willing to do myself,” Abbott said before getting vaccinated at a televised event in Austin.
The next round of vaccines will go to people 65 and older and to those who are at greatest risk of severe disease and death from COVID-19.
COVID-19 has changed a lot of things in life, but one thing that definitely hasn’t changed is that homebound folks in Blanco County still need to eat.
That’s where Meals on Wheels comes in.
“There are people who don’t get meals every day; more than you would think,” said Lainie Parker, Meals on Wheels site coordinator at Trinity Lutheran Church in Blanco.
She is getting more requests for assistance.
“We’re seeing an increase in need, especially because with COVID-19, o ...
Rosalind Ellis a teacher at Blanco Elementary School has been awarded a $1000 grant from Texas Farm Bureau and Blanco County Farm Bureau for their Rainwater Collection System. According to Ellis, “The goal for this project is to teach the children how the conservation of rainwater benefits gardens and environment.
