Chamber Chat
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 5:00am
Summertime Sparks Community Spirit: Atlanta Area Chamber of Commerce Hopes to Lead the Way
Columns & Opinions
Phelan wins re-election bid, seeks speaker post again
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 5:00am
House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, narrowly won re-election in a hotly contested runoff race and has vowed to seek his third term as speaker, drawing threats from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to oppose any of his supporters in the 2024 primary.
TEXAS HISTORY MINUTE
Wed, 06/05/2024 - 5:00am
In a quiet cemetery in Round Rock, a tombstone used to read, “A brave man reposes in death here. Why was he not true?” The tombstone was whittled away by time and curiosity- seekers. The epitaph was placed by one of the sisters of the deceased, Sam Bass. He lay dead at the end of a crime spree that lasted only a couple of years but was remembered for generations. In the Old West when the population was still small and the emptiness of the wide-open frontiers was filled by larger-than-life personalities, Sam Bass stood out.
TEXAS HISTORY MINUTE
Wed, 05/29/2024 - 5:00am
Ben Milam was an average man who traveled the early frontier. But the course of events would place him in the middle of the fight for Texas independence and into legend. Milam’s decisive actions made him one of the early heroes of the Texas Revolution.