FERRIS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE NEW BOARD MEMBERS

At the end of the recent chamber of commerce luncheon, the membership nominated Amanda Ingram, Rhonda Lamb and Jessica Bryant to serve on the 2023 Chamber Board.

Ferris opposes formation of Municipal Utility Districts

FERRIS – During Monday’s Ferris City Council meeting, a resolution was passed opposing the formation by any developer of municipal utility districts, within the city limits, extraterritorial jurisdiction, and points beyond.

WILMER ETJ CONTROVERSY UPDATE

WILMER – Several residents in the ETJ (Extraterritorial Jurisdiction) of Wilmer believe the city is illegally annexing. These residents claim they have not been receiving city services.The city disagrees.

Emergency preparedness taught to church group

RED OAK – Refuge Temple Ministries in Red Oak had several public safety visitors earlier this month when Red Oak Police Chief Garland Wolf alongside Captain Loss Horn with Red Oak Fire Rescue instructed about 20 congregation members on the ins and outs of fire drill exercises, response to an active...

COMICALLY INCORRECT by A.F. Branco (March 16, 2023)

Death taxes are immoral. Even worse, they don’t work

“I have no respect for the passion of equality,” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., one of America’s great jurists, once declared, “which seems to me merely idealizing envy.”But envy, and its sister vice, greed, are very much back in fashion today when it comes to the progressive Left.

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: The Masonic Creed, the Wells Fargo collapse, and more who owns what

I ran across what is called the “Masonic Creed,” and people are reading and rereading this in vast numbers lately. Supposedly penned by J.D. Rockefeller back in the 1800s, I am including it below with a bit more information for this week’s column.Whatever you think, let me know.

Bank collapses are a reckoning for Team Biden’s sheer economic incompetence

The failure of three banks in the last two weeks, including Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank just this weekend, is a saga of utter government incompetence.Call these bank collapses Biden’s Banking Busts.The administration has been obsessing on woke causes while banks teeter toward insolvency.

NOTABLE QUOTABLES (March 16, 2023)

FOR THE RECORD“Taxpayers may not officially be picking up the tab [for the SVB collapse], but everyone else who uses a bank will pay for this down the road in the form of higher fees with their bank.”  – Jim Geraghty“The only way I know how to improve the president’s budget is with a shredder.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: This life story begins in 1973 (kind of) – part 3

My oldest big brother Tim – five years older than I – had a best friend named Brian Light with whom he went to school.I have often written about Brian in that he is one of those gentlemen who makes an early impression on you because of the way he knows how to carry himself.