Shameless

Body At his sold-out show at Arrowhead Stadium last Saturday, Country Music Hall of Famer Garth Brooks and his fully vaccinated tour team performed for a record-breaking 74,500 fans after the Kansas City Health Department held a mobile vaccination clinic in the parking lot.

Abbott sued over mask-mandate ban

Body AUSTIN—A growing number of school districts, counties and cities have defied Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order banning mask mandates, as Covid-19 cases continue to spike due to the delta variant and a low rate of vaccination among Texans. As KUT.

Visiting Dogs

Body When I hear a truck pull up in front of the house and the pandemonium of dogs barkin’ would wake a hibernating mastodon, I relax. It’s only my neighbor, D.K., come to borrow something of his back.

Napkin poetry publishing

Body If you write a poem, and somebody wants to include it in an anthology, and you have to look up the word “anthology,” you might be out of your league. Happened to me. Not that I didn’t know what “anthology” meant. I just had to be reminded. Yep. I once wrote a good poem.

Brothers on the Line

Body Benjamin Franklin was only six years old when a major fire destroyed over a hundred homes in Boston. When he moved from Boston to Philadelphia twelve years later, he and the founder of “the city of brotherly love,” William Penn, had something in common.

Corn Country Landscape

Body Corn country landscape—painted late summer—high clouds, heavy with moisture waiting for afternoon to thicken and darken and start raising Cain. You can see for miles. Brown, green, yellow patchwork pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle.

Starting over again

Body On August 11, 2020, Texas broke a new record. That was the day the number of Covid-19 cases in Texas exceeded 500,000. By August 17, 2020, Texas deaths due to the coronavirus had surpassed 10,000. To date, there have been over 53,000.

Eight proposed amendments on November ballot

Body AUSTIN—The order has been drawn for eight proposed amendments to the muchamended Texas Constitution that will appear on the Nov. 2 ballot. The proposed amendments were approved by at least two thirds of both houses of the state Legislature.

Texas Sales Tax Holiday is Aug. 6–8

Body (AUSTIN) — Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar is reminding shoppers they can save money on clothes and school supplies during the state’s sales tax holiday on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 6–8.