Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton and Democratic U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett are leading their respective primary campaigns for U.S. Senate, according to a poll released last week by the University of Houston’s Hobby School of Public Affairs, the Austin American- Statesman reported.

Greetings Bulldogs, I want to take a moment to share something that has been weighing heavily on my mind and to ask for your support regarding spectator behavior at our athletic events. Across Texas, concerns about improper spectator conduct have grown to the point that many schools have adopted The Texas Way.

When we talk about student learning, we often think about classrooms, teachers, and instruction- and those things matter deeply. But another part of our Systems Plan quietly supports learning every single day: The purpose of Operations is simple and essential: to maintain a safe, healthy, and positive learning environment across all school settings. When these systems are strong, they allow students to focus on learning and staff to focus on teaching.

The second half of the 2025-2026 school year is well underway! Students have settled back into their routines, goal-setting activities are happening across classrooms, and there is a continued focus on academic growth and progress.

Early voting in the March 3 primary starts Feb. 17 and concludes Feb. 27. A full slate of contested races will be on the ballots in both the Republican and Democratic primaries. The deadline to request a mail ballot is Feb. 20, according to votetexas. gov.

This is one of many slave narratives on Madison County Historical Commission’s website, https://www.madisonchc.com, under history and then “slave narratives”. Subjects were interviewed 1936-1938. I had to shorten it some.

At this stage I inform the person that they are under arrest for failure to identify and instruct them to get out of the vehicle. (A quick side note, understand that we can tell/order you out of the vehicle at any time, even at the very beginning of the encounter and we do not have to provide a reason. FYI: this is typically done though for our safety.) I will employ rule #2b again, tell/order them to exit the vehicle three times, even though we are now in the realm of rule #2c, make. A brief pause here will reveal that at the end of this series of events, I will have given the driver a minimum of nine (9) opportunities to comply. I don’t know a single parent who is that patient with a three-yearold, but of course, the similitude between our driver and a threeyear-old cannot go unnoticed.

At least 11 people have died in Texas, nearly half of them children, after Winter Storm Fern swept the state last week, the Texas Standard reported. Among those killed were three young brothers who fell through ice on a private pond near Bonham. In the Dallas suburb of Frisco, two teens died after an accident involving their sled while it was pulled by a vehicle.

The electricity grid covering most of Texas held up as of Monday during the latest winter storm, although localized power outages were reported in deep East Texas and far West Texas. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas dashboard indicated demand was running comfortably below available capacity.

The information below was found on Madison County Historical Commission’s webpage, https://www.madisonchc.com, and then after scrolling, at the Trial and Tears Series. Most came from various Houston Post specials from the dates given.