Opinion

Editor’s Note: “Opinions in this column are not representative of the views of The Madisonville Meteor.”

Does your child or someone in your family have difficulty reading and spelling?

According to a 2022 study “Up to 10% of children experience severe and persistent reading difficulties despite adequate cognitive ability and educational opportunity.”

Does this sound like any child you know? Or maybe an adult you know?

We have a new museum exhibit going up. It involves local schools, and if you have something to add, please call 936-348-5230. There are interesting items in the window already, including Miss Bessie Burtis’s diploma dated 1902 and from Madison Academy.

A standoff at an Eagle Pass park continues as the Department of Homeland Security has sent a second letter to Gov. Greg Abbott demanding access to the Rio Grande park that is now under state control.

Editor’s Note: “Opinions in this column are not representative of the views of The Madisonville Meteor.”

The U.S. Justice Department issued a scathing report late last week on the May 4, 2022, mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, the Austin American-Statesman reported.

This is the fourth Musings focused on our county’s courthouses. The courthouse pieces appeared on each previous edition of the Meteor in the month of January.

Last week’s Musings ended with Courthouse Number Five being completed in 1896. Then it served our county 71 years.

The Texas Railroad Commission has suspended nearly two dozen permits that allow oil and gas companies to inject saltwater into the ground, which regulators say has contributed to increased earthquakes of greater magnitude in West Texas.

Editor’s Note: “Opinions in this column are not representative of the views of The Madisonville Meteor.” Charities. It’s something with which we can have a love/hate relationship, can’t we? While we want to be charitable and those television ads look so promising, the fake news these days not only overwhelm the ads and the news it even praises the bad stuff.

Last weeks’ Musings related information about Madison County’s first four courthouses. For Number Five, it went as far as naming our county’s leaders at that time as well as the architects and builders hired but stopped there.