OPINION: Top three takeaways from last week’s elections

In politics, as in life, we often overcomplicate things. Consider last week’s off-year elections in New Jersey and Virginia, where pollsters and pundits are still combing through election results to make sense of what happened. It’s not that complicated.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Lost in Yellowstone (Chapter 16)

CHAPTER 16“Cliffhanger.” (Part 1) One of the things I’ve thought of so much from this side of this journey is the wonder (for lack of a better word) in the process of trying to absorb as much of the experience as possible.I mean that for me, not just for you.

OUT TO PASTOR: My body, my swat

Usually, I am not easily offended, nor do I easily lose my temper. I did lose my temper when I was six years old but have not been able to find it since.Many people are ticked off by some minor little thing it really does not amount to much.

ON THE JOB TRAINING (part 31)

“Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Hearing the stories of veterans and advocates nationwide

STATEPOINT – The years after military service can be fraught, as many veterans are dealing with both physical and invisible wounds of war. A new campaign hopes to draw attention both to the struggles those who have served in the military face and the ways veterans have overcome adversity.

FERRIS PUBLIC LIBRARY: More than books (November 11, 2021)

The Ferris Public Library joins the largest Digital Book Club in offering our patrons unlimited access, with no waitlist or holds, to the New York Times Bestseller “Five Total Strangers,” a page-turning thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end, by Natalie D. Richards.

OFF MY MEDS by Les Taha (November 11, 2021)

ELLIS COUNTY ARRESTS: November 1 – 7

Salinas, Natividad, 49, evade arrest/detention w/vehicle/watercraft w/previous conviction Felony 3, evading arrest/detention w/previous conviction.Castellon, Manuel, 29, theft prop >=$750<$2,500, burglary of vehicles.

RED OAK ARRESTS: November 1 – 11

Johnson, Arterris, 26, failure to appear.Larkins, Whitney, 29, injury child/elderly/disabled w/intent bodily injury.Reynoso-Nieto, Jesus, 44, DWI/open container.Jemerson, Brandon, 29, spectator at a reckless driving event, speeding, no operator license.

WILMER ARRESTS: November 1 – 7

Rivera-Garcia, Miguel, 21, DWI.Jones, Demondre, 30, warrant arrest Dallas County SORasine, Maxim, 44, DWI.Osorio-Giral, Jaime, 25, DWI.Garcia, Omar, 20, warrant arrest Wilmer.