State resumes requiring job searches to get benefits

Texans receiving unemployment benefits will need to show an active effort to find a job starting Nov. 1. The Texas Workforce Commission suspended the re quirement in March as the pandemic started. More than 3.

Old Glory News

HAPPY HALLOWEEN; BE CAREFUL AND STAY SAFE !! Oh Gee, we get the wind from the South one day and then it blows from the North the next. We need to pray for rain. It seems we have been forgotten when the rain clouds went by. It may get a little cooler tonight.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender." KETIH ELLISON

2 CENTS WORTH

Grab you cup and coffee and set with me awhile and visit. Joe and I made a fast trip to Kentucky last week. Our woman that keeps our yard at the house called Joe Saturday and said,"Joe there has been some trouble at the house!!!" So Joe told her we would be down there Monday.

Faces & Places

“Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian Churches. I look forward to seeing humanity free someday of the tyranny of Christianity no less than Capitalism.

Peace and Tranquility

October 10 each year is designated as World Mental Health Day. Last year in this space, I wrote about the importance of this day and opening the conversation about mental health and mental illness.

THE MAYOR BUILT FIRE TRUCKS

David Abernathy is the mayor of Pittsburg, Texas. His father held the same position for 52 years. “I made a campaign promise I wouldn’t stay here 52 years,” says David. He started serving his city at an early age. “ I was working at the fire station by myself when I was 16.

The Death of Civility

I always marveled when watching film clips of British Parliament as they would shout, boo, and speak over any person at the podium they disagreed with. I always thought it was rude and was certain we’d never act that way in the USA. Boy ... was I wrong!

CHECK YOUR MIRRORS

Analogies can sometimes come across as trite, but I sensed a comparison that could not be ignored while recently driving New Mexico roads. The first day I arrived in the mountains, I focused on finding the place to stay. The roads were unfamiliar, winding, and in need of my full attention.

Accusations rock Attorney General’s office

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is battling back against seven top aides who accuse him of bribery and abuse of office. The aides delivered the accusations in a letter to the agency’s human resources director. The Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV obtained and first published the letter.