Summertime means “smogtime” for the Alamo City. With all the measurements over the last three years, San Antonio registers the 2nd worst air quality in the entire state; slightly worse than Houston, and Dallas holds the “distinction” of having the worst air quality in the entire Lone Star State.
The machines started humming this week, the mixers were running, and the freezers were chilling. They started making ice cream. Not just ice cream, but Blue Bell Ice Cream — “The Best Ice Cream in the Country.” The production crew was making sure they followed all the new procedures for getting cleaned up and the equipment spic & span. In the Blue Bell plant in Sylacauga Alabama, everyone was smiling.
San Antonio undergoes a cleansing of historical markers tied to the Confederacy.
The police chief in a small town in eastern Alabama has been arrested for allegedly selling a handgun and ammunition to an illegal alien.
The Texas National Guard and Texas Air National Guard got some new orders from Governor Greg Abbott on Saturday — You are authorized to carry loaded weapons on duty to protect yourself and the facility.
When Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the Texas State Guard (TSG) to “monitor” and “report” on “Jade Helm 15” operations in the Lone Star state, we all probably had a different idea on how that would work out.
The talk and speculation soon ends. Wednesday marks the start of “JADE HELM 15”, a multi-state, long-term, field-training exercise put on by the Army’s Special Operations Command from Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Word from that little creamery in Brenham via their Facebook page is that they will resume “testing production” in the next few weeks at their facility in Alabama. This is the first step to getting Texas favorite ice cream back on the shelves.
The Fort Worth Stockyards, one of the icons of Texas, is in danger of being replaced by commercial development.
Once home to the polygamous religious leader Warren Jeffs, the 1,700-acre compound in west Texas is for sale along US Highway 277, just north of Eldorado and about 45 miles south of San Angelo. Jeffs was a one-time “President and Prophet, Seer and Revelator” as well as “President of the Priesthood” of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS).
More than 200 horses were seized in an afternoon, and more than a dozen taken to the SPCA facility in Houston for immediate treatment for malnourishment, open and infected wounds, and hooves untrimmed for perhaps as much as a year, causing the horses to limp.
With a name like Dixie Flags, you might think the San Antonio-based business would be the last place on earth that would banish Confederate flags — you would be wrong.
The 84th bi-annual session of the State legislature left us with money for roads and schools, and its “Hall of Shame” for senators and representatives not doing their jobs, but the group also left Austin with some new additions to the Lore of the Lone Star State… including “Lone Star State,” which became the official nickname of Texas.
In Arlington, the Armstrong African Methodist Episcopal Church sits a few blocks north of downtown, and on Sunday, around two dozen parishioners were grieving with the rest of the nation for those lost in the attack when a young white man, alone and in his late 20’s, entered the sanctuary. Churchgoers went on alert, and within minutes, the church pastor, Portia Duncan, called 911.
Eight Democratic members of Congress flew into south Texas on Monday to see the detention camps holding thousands of illegal aliens. Lead by House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland, they visited one camp in Karnes City and another near Dilley, and came away with stark impressions.
The Bird Flu outbreak in the upper Midwest has now made its way south to the Lone Star State—at least indirectly .
During his news conference Friday, Waco Police Chief Brent Stroman defended investigators’ decision to arrest the roughly 177 bikers following the shooting, and charge each with engaging in organized crime. “Those people who went to jail that night, there was probable cause for that arrest,” Stroman said.
A 70-year-old security guard in San Antonio takes a bite out of crime by firing two shots from his revolver to drive off a burglar.
Another victim of the May flooding disaster is identified, leaving two children still unaccounted for. On Tuesday, two members of the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs traveled to Wimberley to meet volunteers involved in the cleanup there.
On May 11th, the body of an infant girl was found alongside Interstate 37, within sight of downtown San Antonio, by a Texas Department of Transportation crew cutting grass and weeds on the right of way. The body had been stuffed into a piece of luggage, and apparently thrown from a car.
The Pentagon announced Friday morning that the security levels at all US military bases, going from Force Protection Condition (FPCON) “Alpha” to FPCON “Bravo”. That bump is being seen, to some degree, at all military installations in Texas.
Company CEO Paul Kruse released a statement on Thursday saying that it would be “several months at a minimum” before Blue Bell is back in stores. Earlier, the company estimated it would be only a few weeks before their products returned.
While the White House still won’t call it a terrorist attack, word out of the FBI on Thursday that the Bureau had been in communication with Garland Police hours before the attack, and had provided a picture of Elton Simpson, and his license plate information, and including him with a group of people thought to have “high interest” in the “Draw Mohammed” event over the weekend.
The Texas Legislative Medal of Honor may soon be presented posthumously to Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the “American Sniper.” It is among the rarest military medals in the United States.
According to a DPS spokesman, “There is nothing to substantiate or even remotely suggest that this anonymous letter purportedly from a Texas Ranger is legitimate. In fact, we believe it to be an outright fabrication.”
