Opinion

Senate, House begin budget reconciliation process The Texas Senate unanimously approved a $308 billion two-year budget last week, the Austin American-Statesman reported. The next step is to reconcile that budget with one passed earlier by the Texas House.

House OKs $302 billion budget 

Texas leads nation in jobs added The Lone Star State continues to lead the nation in jobs added with 58,200 new positions in February, bringing the state to nearly 14 million total nonfarm jobs, according to the Texas Workforce Commission.

Rupert Murdoch: “It is not red or blue, it is green.”

THANK ALL OF YOU for the blessing in reporting our local news and needs, our births and deaths, our wins and defeats, most of all, our community services. Courage, Tenacity, and Integrity---you have won again! You have honored Genesis 12:2-3, “Blessed to be a Blessing.”

WHEN I HEARD that this week would be the last Canadian Record as we know it, it made me incredibly sad and at the same time grateful that I haven’t known a time without it in the 40 years that I’ve lived in Canadian.

For a group of co-workers who rely each day on the words we know and use, we have somewhat remarkably run out of them this week. It is harder to leave our posts here at than you can imagine, but it also seems even more necessary.