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U.S. Rep. Van Taylor’s sunny campaign website still declares him a “family man” and casts his worst political foes as “liberal extremists” who revile his “conservative Texas values,” but in the end, he didn’t need their help in securing his downfall.
We parents like to say that if our kids were ever in imminent danger, we’d have their back. One dad proved that’s no bull, living up to the pledge quite literally inthis week. Landis Hooks’ son, Cody, is seen at the Belton rodeo, just barely exiting the gate on an agitated bull when he falls off, landing motionless on his back. Others try to guide the raging bull away, but the young man’s father isn’t taking chances.
With all eyes on the brutal invasion of Ukraine, Texas political leaders are doing their part, most recently with a bipartisan group of Texas senators signaling support of divesting state pension systems from Russian companies. Gov. Greg Abbott, meanwhile, called on Texas restaurants and bars to flush Russian vodka and other products imported from a country whose tyrannical leader seems to channel Hitler in his megalomaniacal quest to resurrect the former Soviet Union.
She works hard for the money. And now she gets to keep it. Strippers at a Hillcroft-area club who for years had been denied a salary, leaving them to make a living on tips that they were expected to share with coworkers, got good news this week when a judge ruled they are employees, not contractors, and the club owes them a base salary under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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