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Letter to the Editor

As a citizen who did NOT vote for Donald J. Trump to be president, there is one aspect of his new presidency that I greatly look forward to. For years, claims by Trump and his supporters about criminal activity and lawlessness have been made against all manner of public officials and civil servants. These are allegations of CRIMES, and when found to be true, should be punished.

House unveils its voucher version

Texas House members filed a bevy of education bills last week, including a proposed $8 billion investment in public education and a voucher bill that ties the amount of money spent for private schooling to the dollar amount provided to public schools. The Austin American-Statesman reported the bill, filed by Rep. Brad Buckley, R-Salado, would increase the base level of per-student funding by $220 — from $6,160 to $6,380. Additional funds would be provided for special education, bilingual education, transportation and to rural school districts.

The three-fifths clause

Back in the day when the 13 colonies were being cobbled together into the United States a strange issue of slavery became an overriding issue for the Southern States. The population growth was in the New England States down through New York and the Southern States were fearful that they would be outvoted on the issue of slavery which was the backbone of their economy. The compromise that settled the issue was the called the 3/5 rule.

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