Mexia LTC News
Wed, 02/05/2020 - 12:00am
This week at Mexia LTC we started the week off enjoying Bible reading with Irma Carranza on Monday morning. Residents played bingo on Monday afternoon.
Perspectives
‘Red Tom’ the uncrowned king of Texas Socialism
Wed, 02/05/2020 - 12:00am
Thomas Aloysius Hickey was a socialist journalist, lecturer, and West Texas oilman born in Dublin, Ireland, on Jan. 14, 1869. His father and other members of his family were involved in the Socialist movement in Ireland. Tom left his home country at the age of 23 in 1892. The life of this Irishman is very well told in “‘Red Tom’ Hickey,” written by Peter Buckingham and published by Texas A&M University Press. This interesting book tells the story of Hickey that very few Texans know. The recognition of his name seems to be gauged by the popularity of Socialism at the time. Socialism in Texas has been very unpopular with citizens, but accepted by a few.
Gov. Abbott applauds White House approval of women’s health funding
Sat, 02/01/2020 - 12:00am
Gov. Greg Abbott said Jan. 22 that a Trump administration decision reestablishes the federal partnership for the Women’s Health Program in Texas.
Spraggins dies ... former Mexia resident, Purple Heart winner, longtime journalist
Sat, 02/01/2020 - 12:00am
2 CORINTHIANS 5:21 – God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. •••
‘Where the West Begins’ debates Texas identity
Wed, 01/29/2020 - 5:00am
Glen Sample Ely, a documentary scholar, has taken on a major task when challenging the concept of Texas’ identity. Is the state history bound to the South or to the popular belief that it is a western state? After all, Texas raises cotton and had its roots in slavery and segregation, everything makes Texas a southern state. But still others argue that natives and ranching make it a western state. Outside of Texas, people do not know what to make of the Lone Star state. Since not understanding Texas, most if not all scholars and history writers try to forget it. Ely takes the position of a detective or a research doctor by examining Texas’s DNA and discovering the dividing line between West and the East/South is the 100th meridian.
