- After work, I took DaughterGeeding to a restaurant of her choice for her birthday dinner, Waffle House. On the way home, we saw some rentable electric scooters at a park. For all three of us, it cost us about $30 for a half hour of use. We had a blast checking out the local part with plenty of shaded paths. I think she’ll carry this memory for a long time.
- Texas Artist Meets with Uvalde Families to Plan Custom Casket Designs for School Shooting Victims – Trey Ganem, who also designed slain Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen’s casket, has donated his services to families of the Uvalde mass shooting victims
- A Uvalde coroner is haunted by identifying the bodies of children and an old friend
- There’s talk of razing Robb Elementary School and rebuilding it. Here’s what happened after other school massacres
- First Lady Jill Biden tells Harpers Bazaar that she and the President conduct their marital spats over text so the Secret Service won’t hear them arguing.
- What to do with Texas’ $24 billion budget surplus?
- The state of Texas’ economy is booming and now lawmakers are looking at how to best use the fruits of the labor market. According to lawmakers the state’s general revenue fund has grown to approximately $12 billion as a result of the economy. The rainy day fund also holds approximately $12 billion. The staggering surplus puts Texas in a situation it likely has never been in before and also create a challenge for lawmakers on how to divide it all up.
- This news is a little old, but it’s new to me – Turkey Changes Its Name to Türkiye, Ends Confusion Involving a Certain Delicious Bird
- Utah woman rips out part of sister’s eye with her teeth in drunken brawl in car, police say