Opinion

THE FIRST PAPER I picked up after moving here made me an instant fan and keenly aware of what a treasure we have in you. Since then, I’ve only become more impressed to witness your dedication to not only your craft, but your profession.

I AM PROUDLY VOTING for Allen Hadaway in the Nov. 2 Canadian School Board election. As a fellow business partner, and father of three boys, I know the passion and dedication that has been a hallmark of his professional life. Allen’s credentials as a dedicated public servant and involved parent have been well-documented over the past 30 years, and his dedication to professionalism and being a positive voice for CISD won my support.

MY NAME IS DR. KRISTIN CAMPOS, and for those who don’t know me personally, I am a licensed specialist in school psychology (LSSP) and provide mental health services for six rural school districts in the Texas Panhandle. I am also a member of the Canadian graduating class of 2005. My wish to highlight the importance of mental health comes during the worst week of my professional career, spent helping junior high and high school students process the emotions of burying three boys within the communities of Gray County. With the help of my good friend and classmate Megan Schafer, who is a licensed clinical social worker, we composed this letter.

ON OCTOBER 8, the executive director of curriculum and instruction for the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, told a teacher to make sure to follow Texas’s new law requiring teachers to present opposing views on controversial subjects. The Carroll school board had recently reprimanded a fourth-grade teacher who had kept an anti-racism book in her classroom, and teachers wanted to know what books they could keep in their own classrooms.

THE FEDERAL JUDGE WHO temporarily blocked enforcement of the new abortion restrictions in Texas said state lawmakers knew the law was unconstitutional and wrote it to try to prevent the federal courts from saying so.

THE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY’S proposals for all of the state’s political maps are out, and each is skewed in favor of the same voters: white Republicans. One thing leads to the other.

YA RECKON the ‘publicans will take a page outta the demiscraps’ play book and create a special district for the Congressional representative, like sorta’ like what the Demiscraps did fer “Senator Sap” several years ago?