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Early voting began Monday across Texas with voters deciding the fate of 17 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution, as well as local races for city and school board, bond measures and tax proposals. The Houston Chronicle reported many of the propositions intend to lower property taxes for homeowners and businesses.
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Friends, this is the sixth installment in a series illustrating the men who made significant impacts on my life. Some were family, some were brothers-in-arms, some were just there when I needed them most, but they were all what I consider “Men of Iron.” “As iron sharpens iron, one man sharpens another” Proverbs 27:17.
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Redrawing the state’s congressional maps has pulled in 114 Republican candidates across the state’s 38 districts with nearly two months left until the filing deadline, the Houston Chronicle reported.
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The same plaintiffs who are challenging the state’s 2021 congressional map are asking a panel of three federal judges to block using the new GOP-approved districts from being used in the March midterms.
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Dear Publisher, On Friday, my wife and I were returning to our car after having lunch at Classic Rock.
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In Lone Star 2.0, more than 3,000 undocumented immigrants have been arrested by Texas Department of Public Safety officers this year, according to records obtained by The Texas Tribune. As illegal border crossings plunge, state police are shifting their energies toward aiding the Trump administration’s mass deportation effort.
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In my lifetime, there have been a lot of terms or buzz words that have grated on my nerves but one I find particularly annoying is the ‘feels-like’ temperature. My assumption from the get-go was that this originated with a man who’d never done any ‘field research’ that included women.
Read moreLimited Government is represented by Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances. When a single head of state has the last say in all decisions and cannot be overruled, then that ruler can become tyrannical. Some rulers that have no shared power can remain fair, however, separating the powers into separate entities ensures more fairness in decision-making. Our separation of powers includes the legislative [House of Representatives and Senate], the executive [President], and the judicial [Supreme Court] branches, and helps to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful. Each branch has the power to limit the other branches from having too much power and must operate within the parameters of the Constitution and its amendments. Checks and balances is a process in which the different branches, within their own Constitutional responsibilities, has the power to limit or influence the actions of the other branches. This intentional process helps to ensure accountability and prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful, promoting a more just and balanced governance.
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