The Olney City Council will reconsider bids made last month by Brenda Pratt and her brother Michael Pace for two city-owned lots that are significant to their family and to the city’s Black community.
The third special session of the Texas Legislature appears to be ending without movement on Gov. Greg Abbott’s immigration and school choice agenda items. As the 30-day session drew to a close, the governor added school funding proposals, such as teacher pay raises and a much-needed increase to the basic student allotment to the pot. He also proposed paring back standardized testing to try to persuade reluctant rural House members to back the school voucher program.
Rep. David Spiller, R-Jacksboro, said he was meeting this week with Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas senators to work out compromises on his House Bill 4, which creates a criminal offense for illegal entry into Texas from a foreign nation and authorizes all licensed peace officers, including school resource officers, to remove illegal immigrants.
The “harmless” sins are the most dangerous of them all.
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