K9 graduation held in Red Oak Friday, May 12

RED OAK – The Sector K9 Foundation Detection Dog graduation program will be held this Friday at the First Baptist Church in Red Oak at 10:30 a.m. There will be several K9 detection dog teams from across the United States graduating during the ceremony this weekend.

high speed rail in Texas: $30-BILLION COST

WAXAHACHIE – There are two sides to every story.  The momentum in Ellis County seems to be turning its back on the high-speed rail question. According to Kyle Workman, chairman and president of Texas Against High Speed Rail, “This project’s cost estimate is now at $30-billion.

ROISD names new leader for Red Oak Middle School

RED OAK – Following an unprecedented end of the school year, ROISD is already beginning to focus on the fall.

If you want to know what disbanding the police looks like, look at Mexico

One of the most visible and insistent demands of the Black Lives Matter movement is the abolition or disbandment of the police—or at the very least defunding them, which taken to the extreme would amount to the same thing.

COMICALLY INCORRECT by A.F. Branco (June 11, 2020)

PHOTO OF THE WEEK (June 11, 2020)

A broken Statue of Liberty figure lies in a pile of shattered glass outside a looted souvenir shop after a night of protest on June 2, 2020, in Manhattan.

Florida protected its seniors from COVID-19 and New York failed. Here’s why

Florida has the largest percentage of seniors 65-years-old and older in its population most vulnerable to the Chinese coronavirus among larger states and second nationwide, at 20.5 percent, or 4.3 million.

HOPE FOR TODAY: Observations about Chauvin, Floyd and racism

Like millions of others, I watched the video of George Floyd’s death, which was a murder recorded live as it happened. After seeing it, I have prayed to the Lord God for George’s family in the loss of a son and brother.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Raccoon John Smith’s lesson from a log

Funny where the best lessons come from—a pandemic, perhaps, or maybe a good old-fashioned sit-down ‘talk’ with mama, or just from the famous school of hard knocks. The best lessons come from the most unusual sources, and they come when you least expect them.

OUT TO PASTOR: Will there be television in heaven?

If anybody can ask hard questions, the award has to go to the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage. She knows how to ask a question and, more importantly, when to ask a particular question. On the other side of the parsonage, my expertise has been in not correctly answering questions.