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“Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year’s gone by and how little we’ve grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it’s not to be. That for the rest of our sad, wretched, pathetic lives, …

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AUSTIN – A key House education committee adjourned last week without voting on a school voucher bill that is Gov. Greg Abbott’s top priority this session, the Houston Chronicle reported. Barring some unforeseen maneuver in the last week of the regular legislative session, the bill is effecti…

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AUSTIN – It’s official. Fort Hood, named for a high-ranking Confederate officer in the Civil War, has been renamed Fort Cavazos, in honor of native Texan Richard E. Cavazos, the country’s first Hispanic four-star general.

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AUSTIN – The clock is ticking on getting bills out of the House and to the Texas Senate, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick warned last week in a story in the Austin American-Statesman. Patrick presides over the Senate and is worried many bills that have made it out of House committees but have not gone b…

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This Sunday is Mother’s Day – a time when we celebrate and honor the most amazing, loving and patient individuals who exist.

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AUSTIN – The Texas House last Thursday passed two education-related bills, one that allocates $4.5 billion for teacher pay raises and another to increase the annual per-student base funding from $6,160 to $6,300 – a 2.3% increase.

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The severe weather that blew through Kleberg County this weekend reminded me of a phone call I received from my mother just over a decade ago. 

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One of the most important responsibilities that all of us have — as individuals, families and communities — is to ensure the safety of the children in our lives and throughout our community. As we recognize National Child Abuse Prevention Month in April, we must also recognize the urgency of…

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AUSTIN –The Texas House approved a $302 billion budget last week that included an amendment prohibiting the use of state money on private school tuition — a major setback to Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to establish a school voucher system. The Austin American-Statesman reported that more than 20…

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Throughout the week, the Extension Office received several calls regarding bee activity. With mild temperatures and springtime upon us, bees are looking to establish new colonies. 

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The community banking industry operates very differently from the regional and money center banks that have been at the center of recent negative headlines.  

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My time at Naval Air Station Kingsville as the Community Plans Liaison Officer has come to an end. Thirteen years flies when you enjoy what you do. 

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Attorney Bill Edwards died this past week and to most of Kingsville, he was the lawyer who would stand in front of an 18-wheeler while his son would be on top, and they would tell you what to do if you got hit by one of those monsters.  There’s more to Attorney Edwards that needs to be told …

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An increase in backyard gardening throughout the nation especially in urban communities continues to remain at an all-time high. 

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Her name was Annie Dornak, but most of the people that saw her walking through the Kingsville HEB with a trench coat on, covered with holy cards, in the middle of the summer, it was “Crazy Annie.”

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Landowners and lessees should evaluate their pasture and rangeland conditions to identify short- and long-term management strategies. One of the main things to consider when developing a plan is: “What are the goals for the land?”    As Spring nears, it is not unusual to receive calls from r…

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As a chemistry professor at The University of Texas at Austin for the past 25 years and Dean of the College of Natural Sciences for the past two, I’ve worked hard to help Texas students not only better understand the world around them — but to become better citizens of that world.

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For its part, the Texas Association of School Boards is unapologetic—either for its support of the National School Boards Association (which called on the Biden administration to treat parents speaking out as “domestic terrorism and hate crimes” in 2021), or for its advocacy of political goa…

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Standing in the HEB checkout line the other day, the gentleman in front of me reached up and grabbed a candy bar and announced “These were a nickel when I was a kid.”  Being from the same generation, that started a conversation on how prices have changed the past 70 years and how hard we had…

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Over the long Christmas and New Year’s holiday, I found a lot of free time to catch up on old movies I haven’t seen in a long time. I decided to immerse myself in the golden days of cinema.

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For the second time in as many years, Kleberg County has had to endure a bone-chilling winter freeze. The effects of that freeze are still being felt by many in our community, as busted water pipes and frozen pipes are still being repaired.

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We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:

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Kingsville Police Chief Ricardo Torres issued the following statement in regards to Christmas packages being delivered to your doorstep and how to prevent the theft of those packages from occurring