WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) led a letter to the Biden Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decrying the agency’s potential non-attainment redesignation that would curb oil and gas production in the Permian Basin, the largest secure supply of oil and gas in the world.
AUSTIN - Governor Greg Abbott today released a statement on the Texas House of Representatives’ investigative report into the shooting at Robb Elementary School: “I want to thank Speaker Phelan and the Texas House for their investigation and for sharing a detailed account directly with the victims’ families and the Uvalde community. The findings in their investigative report are beyond disturbing and raise serious concerns about the response that day.
We have all been through a period of time in which it seems that literally everything was difficult or changed, and all of us were worried. Most of us have had at least one experience of having contracted COVID, a disease that was entirely unknown three years ago and is in many respects unlike anything we have ever seen previously. Most of us also have lost friends and/or loved ones who have died with this disease. In addition, the responses of governments here and abroad have perhaps been well intentioned, but they appear to have been largely counterproductive. In addition to the massive dislocations attributable to COVID, there are other forces that have for some years been in the process of transforming American society in ways that are unhealthy. To chose just one example, life expectancy in the geographic US had been generally increasing since well before the birth of our nation, until 2014; it has been decreasing since that year. Whenever you read such things, it is natural to expect that the writer is about to suggest that something be done about all of this. These days it seems that we are forever hearing about one or another form of impending doom from which we will be saved if we simply support this or that cause or candidate, because they can surely rise to the implied challenge, “Don’t just stand there
SAN ANGELO - Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, has announced the students achieving the Dean’s List designation for the 2022 spring semester. To be eligible for the ASU Dean’s List, full-time undergraduate students must maintain at least a 3.25 grade point average (GPA) on a 4.0 scale.
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BALLINGER - The Ballinger Rotary Club held their annual awards ceremony at Main Street Soda Fountain. Outgoing President Tyler Reasor passed the gavel to new President Brian Frieda.
SAN ANGELO - Angelo State University conferred 880 undergraduate and graduate degrees on 873 graduates during the 2022 spring commencement exercises on May 13-14, 2022, at the Junell Center/Stephens Arena in San Angelo, Texas.
Donald “Don” George Robinson, 82, of Ballinger, Texas, passed away peacefully surrounded by his loved ones on Friday, July 8, 2022. He was born on October 16, 1939, to George Sheppard and Gertrude Ellen (Damron) Robinson in Ballinger, Texas.
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Charles Easton Boyd, known as “Big Daddy,” to his family, went to be with our Lord and Savior peacefully surrounded by family at the age of 88 on July 9th, 2022, at his home in Shep, Texas. He was dearly loved by all and will be missed greatly.