Thanking the SMPD
Sun, 09/08/2024 - 5:00am
I want to express in writing my appreciation and gratitude to our city’s police department, particularly officers Jamie Williamson and Josiah Marshall.
I want to express in writing my appreciation and gratitude to our city’s police department, particularly officers Jamie Williamson and Josiah Marshall.
Editor’s note: This column is an excerpt from Tom Purcell’s humorous memoir, “Misadventures of a 1970s Childhood,” that was previously distributed in 2020.
Fantasy football is played by more than 50 million Americans — and we’re all experts. Of course, my expertise usually costs me money while the genuinely smart analysts earn the big bucks.
Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: Eight years ago, my husband of 26 years had a stroke, and his personality changed. He was difficult to deal with, but, with time, his old personality came back, and things got better.
Coming soon to a river near us – A FLOOD.
The San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship wants to make a public statement that we stand by women in their right to make their own reproductive decisions with their doctor and without governmental interference.
I am a proud advocate for our local schools. I have been involved with community efforts to pass school bonds. I work with local nonprofits to support students and schools. Every semester, I volunteer with an elementary afterschool program.
In most of the nation, all you need to do is to step outside to feel one of Texas’ deadliest hazards – extreme heat. So far in Fiscal Year 2024, the dangers of heat illness have killed 14 workers in the region, seven in Texas both indoors and out.
Water is the lifeblood of Texas agriculture, and nowhere is that more critical than in the Rio Grande Valley. For too long, we’ve been at the mercy of Mexico, waiting for them to deliver on empty promises stemming back to a water treaty negotiated in 1944 — eighty years ago. Mexico has now fallen behind, once again, in providing more than 900,000 acrefeet, or about 1.1 billion cubic meters of water that is owed to Texas and the U.S., and again, they’ve shown they can’t be trusted as reliable partners. It’s time to stop whining about it and act. Texans need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, take charge and secure our water supply.
The dog-day heat wave has sent power demands to new records, the Austin American-Statesman reported. With much of the state enduring an excessive heat warning, power demand peaked at 85,559 megawatts last week, breaking a record set last August.
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