Perspectives

Some of the most difficult counseling tasks involve working with families when they lost a loved one to suicide. In addition to their grief over the loss of a son, father, or friend, there is also the question of “Why didn’t he let us know he was hurting so bad?” It’s a question that never gets answered, or resolved.

Gov. Greg Abbott issued a letter to legislative leaders indicating a special session will begin on Oct. 9 dealing with what he has called “school choice” but is more widely known as vouchers.

When two county cops confronted a howling mob of sheet-shrouded Klansmen on Oct. 1, 1921, no one gave them much of a chance of getting out of Lorena, Texas alive.