LEGAL NOTICE: CITATION BY PUBLICATION TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF GARY LEE MERRITT, DECEASED

Publish one time in The Ellis County Press on Thursday, July 20, 2023. CITATION BY PUBLICATION – APPLICATION TO DETERMINE HEIRS HIP AND FOR LETTERS OF INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION PURSUANT TO TEXAS ESTATES CODE 401.

Deal struck on property tax relief

AUSTIN – Texas property owners will receive tax relief through a $18 billion tax-relief plan deal that saves face for each of the “Big Three” GOP leaders, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Speaker Dade Phelan announced on Monday.

Harrison calls for ban on race-based employment, admission practices

ELLIS COUNTY – District 10 State Rep.

18-YEAR-OLD DROWNS AT LAKE WAXHACHIE

WAXAHACHIE – The body of an 18-year-old was recovered hours after he reportedly drowned in Lake Waxahachie, according to officials.Police said officers were called to the lake on Saturday, July 8 around 1 p.m.

North Central Texas Council of Governments to host online public input opportunity from July 10 to Aug. 8

ARLINGTON – The North Central Texas Council of Governments is hosting an online public input opportunity from July 10 to Aug. 8 to allow residents to learn more about transportation initiatives and participate in the regional planning process.

COMICALLY INCORRECT by A.F. Branco (July 13, 2023)

OPINION: Biden declares war on profits

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre recently reiterated a point the Biden White House has been making for the past year: that inflation remains high not because of the Biden $6 trillion spending spree but because “high profit margins” captured during the COVID-19 pandemic drive up...

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: This and that – and when is a conspiracy theory not a theory anymore

This week I am writing my column from the state of Maine. I am here writing a story about sailing on a windjammer out of Rockland, but I am always thinking and inquiring about going down a rabbit hole – and this trip was no different.

OPINION: Heart-attack pushers Ben & Jerry’s hippie ‘Indian land’ hypocrisy

Way back in the Stone Age, shortly after the woolly mammoths disappeared, I was city editor of an Albany newspaper while Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were mixing up exotic ice cream on stolen land across the border in Vermont.

NOTABLE QUOTABLES (July 13, 2023)

DEMAGOGUE“This MAGA majority on the [Supreme] Court has gutted affirmative action, blocked student debt relief for millions of Americans, and greenlit discrimination against the LGBTQ community. … Congress has clear authority to oversee the federal judiciary.