My COVID Experience

When I swallow, knives cut my throat. I cough and sometimes can't stop. That's frightening. I caught COVID. Dodged it three years. But this week, I suddenly felt lousy, and a home test said: 'positive.' The thermometer said: 101.8. No big deal, I thought.Almost everyone gets COVID.

Capital Highlights

Senate passes tax cut package The Texas Senate last week unanimously approved a $16.5 billion package to lower property taxes and inject billions of dollars into public schools. As reported by the Texas Tribune, the three separate bills require the state to send at least $5.

Diversity Training Disaster

All big American companies now require DEI training: diversity, equity and inclusion. All big companies! Really. It sounds responsible. But it turns out DEI courses are often useless and sometimes racist. First comes groveling.

Capital Highlights

Bill would require fentanyl education The death of a Leander High School graduate from a fentanyl overdose has prompted state Rep.

Better Flying

Your flight is delayed? Blame your government. OK, it's not always government's fault. Sometimes it's weather or mechanical problems. But often we suffer horrible flight delays because politicians won't relinquish power.

Capital Highlights

Texas Senate passes first bill of session The Texas Senate last week passed a bill that would close a loophole in state law that allowed gun sales to people between the ages of 16 and 18 who have been involuntarily hospitalized for mental illness.

Running Life’s Race...

To describe the workouts he directed as “grueling” might be an extreme understatement if the athletes who ran for late track coach J. H. (Cap) Shelton are consulted. Known as the “dean of Texas track coaches,” he served at Howard Payne University—his alma mater— for 49 years.

Students Defend Freedom

Government imposes a million rules.Americans seem to want more! Leftists want new gun laws and bans on single-use plastics, gas stoves, fossil fuels, gas-powered cars, nuclear power. Conservatives want to ban porn and books that discuss gender identity and critical race theory.

Capital Highlights

Texas again leads state in new corporate projects Texas once again has topped the list for new and expanded corporate facilities added in a year, according to Site Selection Magazine. With 1,028 new projects in 2022, the state had more than the next two states combined – Illinois and Ohio.

Capital Highlights

TxDOT proposes $100b transportation plan The Texas Department of Transportation is proposing a record $100 billion, 10year transportation plan to improve congestion, increase safety and maintain the state’s roadways.