Joint Base San Antonio Hiring Event
ERLANGER, KY. – DAV (Disabled American Veterans) and RecruitMilitary® will co-host the Joint Base San Antonio Hiring Event, October 15 from 11:00am – 3:00pm at Schertz Civic Center. The event is free to veterans, their spouses, active duty military personnel and members of the National Guard and Reserve. More than 39 employers actively seeking the…
Read MoreDrought conditions cut Texas pumpkin yields
Crop and Weather Report – by Karn Dhingra Texas pumpkin growers are finishing an early harvest after extreme drought cut yields in the state’s primary production area by an estimated 30%-40%, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agent. Extreme drought this summer cut yields in the state’s top pumpkin-producing area by an estimated…
Read MoreTexas Interagency Wildfire Academy expands firefighters’ skill set
Event attracts more than 500 students from across the state to Camp Swift October 6, 2026 – by Savanna Montgomery The 28th annual Texas Interagency Wildfire Academy will take place Oct. 6-19 at the Camp Swift National Guard Training Center near Bastrop. Each year, federal, state, local and private firefighters from across Texas and the…
Read MoreAI, Tech Leaders Are Lobbying Trump Health Officials in a Government-Run Chat Room
By Amanda Seitz, Maia Rosenfeld, and Darius Tahir Oct 9, 2026 A cadre of elite techies, financiers, and high-level Trump administration officials have spent a year quietly charting an extraordinary and rapid campaign to persuade Americans to use apps and other artificial intelligence-powered tools to manage their healthcare and medical records. As that campaign has…
Read MoreHouston Democrats push for guardrails on school takeovers
By Sneha Dey and Megan Menchaca, The Texas Tribune October 8, 2026 A squad of Democratic lawmakers is pushing to limit the power of state-appointed officials who step in and take over struggling school districts, ousting locally elected trustees. A commission out of Houston, where the public school district is facing the largest school takeover…
Read MoreMayes Middleton, running for Texas attorney general, wants to “put God back in government”
By Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune October 9, 2026 When a group of parents sued earlier this year over a new state law requiring public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments, state Sen. Mayes Middleton was ready. “There is no such thing as ‘separation of church and state’ in our Constitution, and our schools…
Read MoreKen Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business. by Zach Despart, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune Co-published with The Texas Tribune October 9, 2026, 6:00 am ProPublica is…
Read MoreDrought Map for Upshur County as of October 6
Cowboys fall to Tampa Bay
By Elwyn Henderson The 2-2 Dallas Cowboys, fresh off their 34-30 victory four days earlier on Sunday in Houston against the 0-4 Texans returned to AT&T Stadium in Arlington Thursday to entertain the 0-4Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Tampa Bay won the coin toss and deferred to the second half. Chase McLaughlin kicked the ball away and…
Read MoreJOE DODD: 2026 GILMER BUCKEYES FOOTBALL • GAME INFORMATION & NOTES • Gilmer Buckeyes (4-1) vs. Texarkana Pleasant Grove Hawks (5-0)
Friday, Oct. 9, 2026 • Jeff Traylor Stadium • Gilmer, Texas • 7:00 p.m. TEAM INFORMATION GILMER BUCKEYES TEXARKANA PLEASANT GROVE HAWKS Class 4A Division II • District 8-4A DII Class 4A Division II • District 8-4A DII Enrollment: 879 Enrollment: 823 2026: Season Record 4-1 2026: Season Record 5-0 2025: 4-7 overall • Lost…
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