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Vouchers have House majority backing
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Vouchers have House majority backing
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION STATE CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS By Gary Borders 
March 5, 2025
A slim majority of Texas House members have indicated they will back House Bill 3, which creates education savings accounts that allow families to use taxpayer money for private school education. The Dallas Morning News reported that 75 Republican legislators have signed on with the bill’s author, s...
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Big money pushing private-school drive
By Linda Gerber Guest columnist 
March 5, 2025
I’m writing in response to David Anderson’s op-ed piece, along with the other letters to the editor related to the current “vouchers” initiatives which proposes using taxpayer public money to pay for individuals’ sending their children to private schools. Mr. Anderson makes frequent use of the value...
Admiral Nimitz pays a visit
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Admiral Nimitz pays a visit
Hindsights Michael Barr 
February 26, 2025
He sailed into the room with an easy smile and a gleam in his eye. It had been 26 years since he last saw his grandfather’s famous hotel, remodeled now and looking more like a Holiday Inn than the wooden steamboat he remembered. Still, Admiral Chester Nimitz looked relaxed and happy to drop anchor a...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
February 26, 2025
Overseas aid We live in an age when all the factual information anyone could want is readily available. Unfortunately, so is dis-information. Such is ...
House unveils its voucher bill version
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House unveils its voucher bill version
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION STATE CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS By Gary Borders 
February 26, 2025
Texas House members filed a bevy of education bills last week, including a proposed $8 billion investment in public education and a voucher bill that ...
Texas schools need healthy competition
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Texas schools need healthy competition
By David Anderson 
February 26, 2025
Guest column There has been a lake full of ink used to wr it e/c ompla in about the Texas school system in this paper, from funding to vouchers. The m...
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The King of all Fruits: Gillespie County peaches
February 26, 2025
Fruit was first to put our region on the map Life in Gillespie County is still peachy, and we’re hoping for another good crop of the fruit that is a c...
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Kudos to fathers, men in WatchDOGS
February 26, 2025
W e relish publishing the positive things happening in our town and schools, and we were delighted to promote the Watch DOGS (Dads of Great Students) ...
Skilled trades are safe from A.I.
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Skilled trades are safe from A.I.
By Tom Purcell 
February 19, 2025
Guest column Here’s the bad news: many jobs are going to be eliminated by artificial intelligence, and, with the speed at which AI is evolving, it’s g...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Medicine costs 
February 19, 2025
Do you know how much it costs to create a television commercial? Do you know how much it costs to air a TV commercial? Now you know why we have to pay...
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