Opinion

DSHS gets nearly 15,000 monkeypox vaccines The Texas Department of State Health Services has received and distributed 14,780 doses of the monkeypox vaccine to local health departments and DSHS regional offices. Another 27,000 doses could be made available by the Strategic National Stockpile.

TONIGHT’S PUBLIC HEARING of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol laid responsibility for the crisis at the Capitol on former president Trump.

I GET THAT SOMETIMES it’s hard to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes, but we should listen. We should all listen to each other, and especially to people whose journey we have an opinion on but have not lived. There is wisdom in experience.

GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK have enormous economic and political power in society—especially over the news industry. Many ask if they have played a role in the misinformation that erodes our free press and plagues our democracy.

The Canadian Community Center would like to send out a BIG thanks to everyone who came out and got a taco plate at our taco pile-on fundraiser on the 4th of July! Shout out to Mike and Jamie Jernigan for donating the salsa. We would also like to thank Darlene Purcell, Tiffany Aldana, Alexandra Cipollone, and Karen Bradford for all the help with the parade and pile-on, as well as Keller English, Cael and Breven Aldana, Isaac Saenz, B.J. Hernandez, Ledger Yarnold, Donnie Purcell, Morgan Bradford, Fabian Diaz, Roberto Alvarez, and Brian Mondragon for serving our awesome community. And last but not least, a big thank you to the Hemphill County Library!

We would like to thank the Canadian Volunteer Fire Department for their quick response and expertise in putting out the fire on our property east of Canadian on the 4th of July. They are always ready and always willing, and we are forever grateful!

Kit Looper, 84, died June 14, 2022, at her home in Hines, Minnesota. Funeral services were held on Tuesday, June 21, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

AS A HOUSE COMMITTEE tries to awaken Americans to the seditious behavior of Donald Trump, the nation marks the 50th anniversary of the burglary that led to exposure of another president’s criminal enterprise, the Watergate scandal of Richard Nixon.

Comptroller releases broadband plan State Comptroller Glenn Hegar last week released his agency’s plan to support the expansion of broadband internet access to areas with limited or no access. Hegar and his agency’s Broadband Development Office received feedback through a series of town halls, virtual discussions, and more than 16,000 responses to a survey.

IT’S TIME TO ACT on gun responsibility. I am a father, the son of a kindergarten teacher, and an American.