Panhandle princess partied up a storm

The only daughter of one of Texas’ wealthiest cattle kings married a blueblood from Philadelphia on Jun. 18, 1902 in the family mansion at Decatur.Starting with a small herd of Longhorns in the 1850’s, Dan and son Tom Waggoner turned parts of six North Texas counties into a 750 square-mile cattle...

Ask Rusty – Social Security Questions Asked Over Coffee

By Russell Gloor, National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Association of Mature American CitizensDear Rusty: My coffee conversations among a group of friends have resulted in several questions about Social Security: 1.

Real Lives, Real Losses of Drunk Driving

AUSTIN – Marcus and Nicole Nalepa and their 8-year-old daughter Kelsey were on the way to her softball practice in League City when their lives changed forever.Just feet from Kelsey’s elementary school, a drunk driver slammed into the family car at a stop light.

Abbott has until June 22 to sign or veto bills

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“Know nothings” challenge democrat dominance

With Election Day just seven weeks away, the Texas branch of the American Party, better known as the “Know Nothings,” met on Jun. 11, 1855 to select a slate of candidates for statewide office.In only three years, the grass-roots movement had evolved from a fraternal group in the Northeast called...

Ask Rusty – Social Security Questions Asked Over Coffee

By Russell Gloor, National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Association of Mature American CitizensDear Rusty: My coffee conversations among a group of friends have resulted in several questions about Social Security: 1.

MY FIVE CENTS

The state legislature will adjourn on Tuesday as we reach the 140th day of the legislative session, or Sine Die, which means “without days.”

Legislative session wraps up

The dust hasn’t quite settled on the 2025 legislative session, but here’s a sampling of bills already sent to Gov. Greg Abbott.• A ban on clubs supporting gay teens in public schools won final legislative passage on Saturday.

Vidor’s Past

5 YEARS AGOJune 3, 2020:A man with a gun robbed a Mauriceville convenience store early on Monday morning and disappeared into the dark with, apparently, a small amount of cash.Despite the threat of distant rumbles of thunder on Saturday night, the Vidor I.S.D. A.I.M. Center High School successfully...

Austin goes toe to toe with folk hero

Stephen F. Austin finally blinked in a tense stand-off with Strap Buckner and signaled on Jun. 10, 1831 that he would meet his stubborn adversary more than halfway.No one was more determined to take Texas away from Spain than the pugnacious son of a Virginia judge, who did not know the meaning of...