Opinion

AFTER ATTENDING ONE OF Rep. Ken King’s meetings to “solicit feedback from his constituents on the issues they felt vitally important before the upcoming (88th Texas Legislative) session,” several thoughts come to mind.

A TROUBLING DEBATE has dominated several meetings of Canadian’s City Council over the last two or three months. It has focused, for the most part, on the city’s growing list of infrastructure needs, and how to grow enough city revenue to build some reserves and begin funding these projects.

I was curious, so I asked Roger Estlack, who along with his wife, Ashlee, publishes the Clarendon Enterprise, how their community of approximately 1,810 citizens managed to build a new swimming pool. To be honest, I knew the story, because I had read it in their fine newspaper, and followed that project from its infancy. How did it start? Why, it started in the Clarendon Enterprise, with a column written by the publisher’s son and cub reporter, Ben. Roger was kind enough, when asked, to provide a few, succinct details: 1. Cub Reporter in 2016 writes about how great the pools are in Wellington and Pampa and how nice it would be if Clarendon had one. Several weeks later, the mayor mentions this column when announcing to a small group of civic leaders that he has been approached by an anonymous donor offering $500,000 towards a pool if the community can match it.

ON LABOR DAY, WE HONOR the achievements of America’s workers, and in 2022 we have a historic victory to celebrate. Our nation’s working people have come all the way back from the depths of a global pandemic, regaining every job lost and more.

By Jay Leeson, Published Aug. 5 in the Dallas News WITH GOV.

By Ted James, Region 6 South Central Administrator U.S. Small Business Administration THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT (IRA) will lower prescription drug, health care, and energy costs.

IT’S BEEN 173 DAYS SINCE Russia escalated attacks on Ukraine… 173 days that families, children, the elderly, have lived under constant bombing of their homes, at train stations, just walking down the street.