Opinion

Have you been counting the minutes until election day when your neighbors can remove all those campaign signs from their lawns for another two years? Yes, these are mid-term elections, just as serious as the presidential election yet to come two years from now, but not as interesting. Why not? Because the great candidate Vermin Love Supreme only runs for President and doesn’t mess about trying to be someone’s governor.

Ihad always admired Ronald Reagan long before I made the five hundred getout- the-vote phone calls for him from my home on election day 1980. His overwhelming victory that night was among my life’s s happiest moments. After the disastrous Carter years, America could now finally begin to improve. When the Berlin Wall fell and Communism with it a decade later, my unwavering confidence in Reagan was realized. I met him once in 1976, was present at his inauguration, and today consider him among the greatest of American presidents.

We thought we would miss the festivities, which just shows how much we still must learn about Mexico. My husband, Peter, and I arrived in San Miguel de Allende on the 2nd of November.

Among the key terms students need to learn if they are continuing their education after high school is expected family contribution (EFC). According to KHEAA, the EFC is how much money students and their families are expected to pay toward a student’s education expenses.

I am delighted to report that my mother has come around. I have been lobbying my mother for months to take pity on a little red squirrel who had acquired a great fondness for her, demonstrating his devotion by digging up all her flowerpots and gazing at her for minutes at a time through the window.

“Someday,” said Steve, our resident tall, walrus- moustachioed cowboy, “I’m going to mess around and mix up some paint and when it’s just the right blend, I’ll sell it to people who love beauty and nature to paint the walls of their favorite room in the house.”

Texas public schools would have to install panic buttons in classrooms and ensure all doors and windows are locked and monitored under new proposed safety standards released last week by the Texas Education Agency.

My husband, Peter, says they are rushing the season. I’m not sure who “they” are.