Prairie View A&M University adds Family and Community Health Agent for Cass County
Wed, 12/25/2024 - 5:00am
Vehicle Inspections No More after January 1st
Columns & Opinions
Abbott unveils new border strategy
Wed, 12/25/2024 - 5:00am
Gov. Greg Abbott said last Thursday the state is initiating a billboard campaign across Central America and border cities in northern Mexico to discourage migrants from attempting to enter Texas, the Austin American-Statesman reported.
Dr.Absalom Carter Oliver
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 5:00am
Dr. Oliver was a pioneer physician of Texas. He was born 23 June 1839 in Butler County, Alabama. In the later part of 1854, he moved with his parents Samuel and Eliza Oliver to Douglassville, Cass County, Texas. His early education was obtained in the private schools of that time. His medical education at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. His first practice was in Shelby County, Texas, in 1859-1860. He left there and entered the Medical University at Augusta, GA where he received a degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1861.
Agency seeks $300 million to bolster Medicaid
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 5:00am
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is seeking a $300 million transfusion of funds to bolster the state’s Medicaid application process, The Texas Tribune reported.
Texas History Minute
Wed, 12/18/2024 - 5:00am
Charles M. Schulz created a comic strip that captured the hearts of millions in the nearly 50 years that Peanuts ran in thousands of newspapers around the world. Schulz, an amiable and soft-spoken Minnesota native and World War II veteran, had been drawing the daily strip since 1950. Fifteen years later, he would be responsible for a Christmas story that has since become a cultural icon. But it was almost entirely by accident.