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“No mail again?” Those words ring out every day at our local post office. The mail slow-down is especially acute in rural towns. Lately, mail delivery is more like a mail dump. We get all our mail— 10-days’ worth—in one day. Mail delivery in a rural area is typically slower than it is in cities. We are at the end of the line as far as postal delivery goes. After mail hits the Dallas post office, it goes to Midland and then to San Angelo before reaching the U.S post office on Main Street here. The mail stays for a day at least in each of those cities. Now, with the slowdown, our mail is taking a three-day vacation in each town.

AUSTIN—Texas families have through July 31 to enroll their newborns in the Texas Tuition Promise Fund® and pay this academic year’s rates for all or some future tuition, and schoolwide required fees at Texas public colleges and universities, excluding medical and dental institutions. Newborns are children younger than 1 year of age at the time of enrollment.