Three years ago, Cole Ohrt, who lives in Mission Valley, was a 14-year-old cowboy who loved to rope and ride. In a freak accident, he became a quadriplegic and has been confined to a wheelchair ever since.

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

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We live busy lives with lots to do, and, sometimes, even losing a minute or two can be cause for annoyance.

Don’t mess with Victoria voters. We vote and we care about the place where we live, work and raise families.

For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? And shall not uncircumcision whi…

Sweet Memories

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As we begin to come out of the pandemic and think about this past year of learning, we have learned a lot about remote instruction and resilience.

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead. For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope…

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The following editorial published in the Houston Chronicle on April 5:

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The following editorial published on April 7 in the Wall Street Journal:

For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.

It’s an old and bittersweet story in Texas: Property values rise, local property tax revenue rises and the state government spends less on public education.

The federal government is handing the city of Victoria and Victoria County millions of dollars to help recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

This week, on the basis of whole-cloth lies, major corporations went to political war with the state of Georgia. The lies at issue revolved around Georgia’s new voter law, characterized by both Stacey Abrams and President Joe Biden as a new form of Jim Crow.

Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

Miserere

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Even before the pandemic, Texas schools faced daunting challenges. About 88% of students were economically disadvantaged. Two ethnic groups that comprised about two-thirds of enrollment (and rapidly growing) held less than 8% of the state’s wealth. Many districts had massive infrastructure d…

When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:).

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There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

The state budget approved by the Texas Senate on Tuesday is just the start: Lawmakers still have to decide what to do with billions in federal COVID-19 relief money.

Since the weeklong freeze in February, Nasir Kureshy, the owner of Turtle Creek Aquaculture in Palacios, has been busy cleaning out the tens of thousands of redfish that died in his ponds, applying for disaster loans and pleading along with other farmers for relief.

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When seasons change, it often stirs up our emotions. Recently, on a Sunday in March, I felt a temperature change, which made the morning air crisp and cool.

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Mowing

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Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, An…

Last week we held our Board Excellence awards. For those who are unfamiliar, these awards celebrate a student’s academic standing and conduct. Students from each grade level from five through eight, and the top 10 students from Victoria East High School and Victoria West High School grade le…

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The following editorial published in the San Antonio Express-News on April 2:

And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

New voting restrictions working their way through the Texas Legislature have more to do with the 2018 election cycle than the one in 2020.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits in the U.S. fell to 684,000 in late March for the first time in a year. Believe it or not, that’s important. “Initial claims” sounds like something only an economist could love (and a nerdy one at that). This weekly statistic represents the firs…

For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

This is almost too easy but I can’t resist. I was actually going to write a column about President Biden’s dog, Major, biting people; also among the lowest of the hanging fruits. “President’s dog a Major pain.” It writes itself.

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The following editorial published on March 30 in the Wall Street Journal:

When I pushed open the doors of the Victoria College in 2009, my 13-year-old self had yet to realize the profound impact the college would have on my life.

Since the death of George Floyd, our esteemed media, as well as their Democratic allies, have suggested that Floyd’s alleged murder is representative of broader American white supremacy, that Floyd’s experience with law enforcement is indicative of how American police pose an existential thr…