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Letter to the Editor: Skewed View

3 years ago By News Staff

Skewed View

Madame Editor,

Diana Gordon's article this week (Two Birds with One Stone) about the bipartisan Farm Workforce Modernization Act seems a great opportunity for our country's gradual re-centering of attention to the common good. With its designation of Certified Agricultural Worker status, we'll even have an acronym (CAW) to crow about!

Mischievously,

Two Birds with One Stone

3 years ago By News Staff

ONE ANIMATING ISSUE for voters in the 2022 midterm elections—especially for Republicans— was the country’s broken immigration system. Another issue that was topof- mind for families of both parties trolling the supermarket aisles was inflation.

Of Note

3 years ago By News Staff

THAT WAS A GREAT Field Notes piece on Pete Parra. Almost every week, the Record has something that shows why it is one of the best newspapers in America. I read a lot of newspapers. I see none that look better and read better.

Field Notes

3 years ago By Field Notes By Laurie Ezzell Brown

I MET LT. COL. PEDRO PARRA—or Pete, as he introduced himself to me—only once. He attended Canadian’s August 2010 All-School Reunion, and I was there to report the event. In the brief conversation that followed our handshake, in the middle of that crowded school gymnasium, Pete Parra made a lasting impression on me.

Proud to serve Canadian

3 years ago By News Staff

ON BEHALF OF THE MEMBERS of American Legion Post 56 and all other veterans who live in and around Canadian, I want to thank the staff and students of Baker Elementary School and Canadian Elementary School for planning and hosting the annual Veterans Day ceremonies.

Civil War soldiers celebrated Thanksgiving in the field

3 years ago By News Staff

AS IN MOST WARS, the men of the Civil War found it excruciatingly difficult to be away from loved ones at holiday time. Thanksgiving was no exception.

The holiday itself has its roots in the Civil War. The first official proclamation declaring Thanksgiving as a national day of remembrance was issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, partly in honor of Northern successes in the war that year. Lincoln designated the last Thursday in November “as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise.”

State Capital Highlights

3 years ago By News Staff

Turnout drops in recent election

Field Notes: As I have in years past

3 years ago By Field Notes By Laurie Ezzell Brown

AS I HAVE IN YEARS PAST, I watch Donna Jenkins as she enters the second-floor offices of the Hemphill County Clerk’s office to deliver the Precinct 202 ballot box. Donna is 85 years old, and has served the election process in some capacity for the last 40 years. She reflects for a moment, and says, “I’ve outlasted them all.”

End the streak of daily deaths on Texas highways

3 years ago By News Staff

IMAGINE THE HEADLINES if the population of Harlingen, Pflugerville, or North Richland Hills were wiped out by a natural disaster like a flood, hurricane, tornado, or by terrorist attack. Or if 18 airplanes crashed in Texas, with no survivors, every year for the last 22 years. We would all be shocked and horrified at such an incomprehensible loss of life. And yet, since Nov. 7, 2000—the last deathless day on Texas roadways—we have lost more than 79,000 lives to traffic fatalities. That is nearly equal to the population of those cities and those airplane crashes.

State Capital Highlights

3 years ago By News Staff

Panic buttons, locked doors for Texas schools Texas public schools would have to install panic buttons in classrooms and ensure all doors and windows are locked and monitored under new proposed safety standards released last week by the Texas Education Agency. The proposal is the latest effort to strengthen school safety after 19 children and two teachers were killed at Robb Elementary in Uvalde last May in the state’s deadliest school shooting.

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