Potatoes and cauliflower in a new way
Certain items are staples of the Thanksgiving dinner table. For example, mashed potatoes, candied yams and stuffing are Thanksgiving stalwarts.
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Beto O’Rourke wants to end the STAAR tests. Here’s why he can’t.
Beto O’Rourke’s vows to cancel the STAAR test are untenable since state and federal law preclude him from eliminating the standardized testing program on his own. In appeals to students, teachers and education activists, O’Rourke — the Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate — has repeatedly promised to do away with the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness if he’s elected governor in November.
David Yoskowitz named TPWD executive director
David Yoskowitz, Ph.D. was named executive director of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department on Wednesday at a special meeting of the TPW Commission in Austin.
Another month of solid US hiring suggests more big Fed hikes
WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers slowed their hiring in September but still added 263,000 jobs, a solid figure that will likely keep the Federal Reserve on pace to keep raising interest rates aggressively to fight persistently high inflation.
Biden is calling for marijuana possession pardons. But that doesn’t mean it’ll happen in Texas.
Calling the criminalization of marijuana a “failed approach,” President Joe Biden announced a pardon of all federal marijuana possession charges Thursday — and urged governors to follow suit with state-level convictions for marijuana possession.
Biden: Nuclear ‘Armageddon’ risk highest since ‘62 crisis
NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden is declaring that the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” is at the highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, as Russian officials speak of using tactical nuclear weapons after suffering massive setbacks in the eight-month invasion of Ukraine.
To buy Twitter, Musk has to keep banks, investors on board
If the squabbling ever stops over Elon Musk’s renewed bid to buy Twitter, experts say he still faces a huge obstacle to closing the $44 billion deal: Keeping his financing in place. Earlier this week, Musk reversed course and said he’d go through with acquiring the social media company under the same terms he agreed to in April.
Uvalde schools fire ex-Texas trooper who was at shooting
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — New outrage ripped through Uvalde on Thursday over revelations that a school police officer hired after the Robb Elementary massacre was not only on campus during the May attack as a Texas state trooper but under investigation over her actions while a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers.
Financial recovery available for Ellis County partner organizations
Applications are now open for Ellis County organizations to apply for American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding. These federal funds provide relief from the negative impacts of the pandemic to local organizations that address public health, behavioral or mental health, substance abuse, domestic abuse and family violence, and more.
County releases voting dates, locations
The Ellis County Elections Office has released times and locations for early voting and Election Day, which is set for Nov. 8.