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Bogata & Mount Pleasant, TX, Feb. 24, 2025 Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins met with poultry farmers and industry leaders as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ongoing response to highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Secretary Rollins toured a Cal-Maine Foods egg-laying facility in Bogata, Texas before traveling to Mount Pleasant, Texas,…

February 24, 2025 Average gasoline prices in Texas have risen 1.4 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.69/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 13,114 stations in Texas. Prices in Texas are 1.1 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 11.0 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The…

By Jim “Pappy” Moore When I was growing up we used to say of really cold days “it’s colder than a well digger’s ass!” If you have actually been down in a well, you know it is naturally cold down there. With water seeping out and into the well, and your jeans getting wet, it…

By Jasper Scherer and James Barragán, The Texas Tribune Feb. 20, 2025 “National leaders mount pressure campaign on Texas House GOP to pass voucher bill” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Sign…

February 17, 2025 Average gasoline prices in Texas have risen 1.2 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.67/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 13,114 stations in Texas. Prices in Texas are 0.3 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand 21.9 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The…

By Jim “Pappy” Moore Over ten years ago I wrote those words and the column which follows. I bring it up again because President Trump has launched a “new” idea which I proposed long ago: Getting rid of the penny. Here’s what I wrote to you over a decade ago: Benjamin Franklin famously wrote in…

Inflow-Outflow-Graphic-1-with-Headline-Source Hughes Springs, TX (February 13, 2025) — Northeast Texas Municipal Water District (NETMWD) is in discussions with North Texas Municipal Water District (North Texas MWD) regarding a sale or lease of excess water from Lake O’ the Pines.    Discussions are ongoing, so specifics about any final agreement do not exist. In the meantime,…

By Jim “Pappy” Moore I do not recall a time when so many teachers were unhappy with teaching. Or so many parents were unhappy with schools. Or students behaved so badly in schools. Allow me to suggest a few major changes. Rule One: children do not have access to their cellphones for the entire school…

  KETK NBC Feb 8, 2025 East Texas State Rep. Jay Dean hosted a town hall at 10 a.m. on Saturday in order to discuss water issues in his district and across East Texas. KETK/FOX51 News covers East Texas, bringing you the latest local stories, weather, sports and lifestyle coverage from the Piney Woods.

“JUNETEENTH,” AN EXHIBITION BY HUMANITIES TEXAS, WILL BE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AT THE HISTORIC UPSHUR MUSEUM FROM FEBRUARY 6- MARCH 2025. The 10-panel exhibition explores the context and lasting effects of June 19, 1865, when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform enslaved Black Americans they had been freed under the…