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Blinn College livestock judging teams began their 2022-23 season with top finishes in two prestigious contests. Blinn recently placed second overall in the team competition at the Cimarron Classic Livestock Judging Contest sponsored by Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Okla.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) announced that it has released $5.47 billion to Texas in Fiscal Year 2023 apportionments for 12 formula programs to support investment in critical infrastructure, including roads, bridges and tunnels, carbon emission reduction, and safety improvements utilizing funding from the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The funds go directly to Texas, providing transportation leaders within Texas the flexibility to continue the important work of rebuilding roads and bridges and making their transportation system more efficient reflecting their state’s particular needs.

11th Annual Health Fair, Oct. 27 1st Texas Home Health & Sealy Chamber of Commerce present Senior Citizen 11th annual Health Fair, Thursday, Oct.

In September 2022, Texas added 40,000 nonfarm jobs, more than doubling the number of jobs added in August. For the eleventh consecutive month, the state set new employment highs as total nonfarm employment reached 13,571,800. The Texas economy has added 721,800 positions since September 2021. The Texas seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.0 percent, a decrease of 0.1 percentage points from August 2022.

Average gasoline prices in Texas have risen 1.3 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.25/g this week, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 13,114 stations in Texas. Prices in Texas are 9.8 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand 30.6 cents per gallon higher than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has increased 18.7 cents in the last week and stands at $5.06 per gallon.

Last week, the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) approved $627.5 million in funding to support the addition and expansion of child care providers statewide, as well as assist TWC’s Child Care Services (CCS) providers as they transition to the new requirement to participate in TWC’s quality- rating improvement system, Texas Rising Star. The new funding supports four major efforts: increasing the child care expansion grants; allocating additional stimulus funding to aid CCS providers; aligning child care payments for families receiving assistance to reflect private pay methods; and enhancing online platforms for career development for early childhood educators.

Disclaimer: Arrest and court records are public information, and the press has the right to publish them under the first amendment of the US Constitution. It is important to note that an arrest should not be considered as evidence of guilt.

Disclaimer: Arrest and court records are public information, and the press has the right to publish them under the first amendment of the US Constitution. It is important to note that an arrest should not be considered as evidence of guilt. The defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.