Opinion

Anti-gun violence protests and more school safety measures Anti-gun violence protests were held in multiple cities across the state over the weekend, while the state has imposed additional measures designed to strengthen school security. Texas State University’s Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) program will be provided to all Texas school districts.

STARTING TODAY (Thursday, June 9), lawmakers will begin to lay out findings from their nearly year-long investigation into the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

ONCE MORE WE ARE EXPRESSING our thoughts and prayers for murdered children on social media, demanding Congress act to prevent such heinous acts. Despite most of us demanding change, this atrocity will too soon disappear from media and our consciousness with nothing substantive being accomplished, because the will of the majority will have been thwarted by the minority. (And the few who remember past such events will add “again.”)

TEA directed to make schools safer Gov. Greg Abbott has directed the Texas Education Agency to ensure school facilities are made safer in the wake of the killing of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary in Uvalde.

The Canadian Community Center’s 2022 baseball season wrapped up successfully last week. Altogether, 119 youth baseball players and 19 coaches and assistant coaches participated in five T-ball teams, four coach-pitch teams, and two travel teams.

Following last week’s grim news of the deaths of 19 elementary school students and two teachers at the hands of a lone gunman in Uvalde, we asked Superintendent Lynn Pulliam to comment on the safety procedures that have been put in place on all four campuses at Canadian ISD. Pulliam responded this week with this statement:

My six year old whined as we climbed the hill, He hasn’t been alive long enough to understand. When we got to the top we heard the shouted command to stand.

Gunman walked into school building unopposed The gunman who killed 21 people inside a Uvalde elementary school walked into the unlocked building unopposed, the Department of Public Safety said in a revised statement, as reported by the Austin American-Statesman and other media sources. After the gunman crashed his grandmother’s truck in a ditch, he walked into the building while firing a semiautomatic weapon purchased just days after his 18th birthday.

WHEN WE MADE that first sweepstakes award, we painted the school bus so everyone along the way home would see our honors. We wore white shoes, so there was plenty of white shoe polish to finish the art. Mr. Waits is holding the trophy.

IMAGINE IF it was your child. Imagine that you had heard the alarm clock go off this morning, and fumbled through the dark to the kitchen, to start the coffee pot.