Firefighters are looking to the skies for much-needed rain this week as crews continue battling wildfires across the state. Fires reported Sunday by the Texas A&M Forest Service were being fought in Brown, Taylor, Wilbarger, Llano, Schleicher and San Saba counties.
By a strange quirk of history, we are seeing previously unwilling partners come together because their enemies are trying to pull them apart. Putin, for example, is single-handedly responsible for completing Donald Trump’s task of making NATO into an organization that is serious about adequately funding its operations and standing for the defense of Europe. NATO is also unified (with the possible exception of one member). Turkey, for some reason, opposes admission of Finland and Sweden into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and may be holding out for some sort of concessions.
Early voting in the May 24 primary runoff elections ends Friday, May 20. Under state law, voters who cast ballots in either party’s primary election must vote only in the same party’s runoff election. Voters who did not cast ballots in the primary may vote in either party’s runoff election.
At the end of World War I (the Great War) the winning countries sent representatives to a convocation that redrew the map of Europe. In this redraw, old empires were carved up into small states containing collections of ethnic minorities. Natural resources were also divided in such a way as to insure that no single country thus created was totally self sufficient and capable of producing a war machine. Losing countries were also saddled with the requirement that they repay winners the cost of the war.
Texas voters overwhelmingly approved two proposed amendments on Saturday that will provide property tax relief to homeowners.
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