Just two weeks after the longest government shutdown on record, and following 48 hours of narrative-molding declarations that a border security deal was “imminent” or “expected before the end of the weekend”, The Hill and Bloomberg now report that talks to avert a second government shutdown over border wall funding have broken down and Republicans and Democrats have stopped communicating for now.

On Tuesday February 5, 2019 former Austin County Precinct 4 Commissioner Douglas King was honored by both the State Of Texas House and Senate. Commissioner King was tragically killed on December 17, 2018 in a work accident while repairing a piece of equipment with some of his crew. Senator Lois Kolkhorst introduced SR 125, honoring King while Representative Ben Leman introduced H.R. 171. In attendance during these readings were the King family as well as friends and staff from Austin County.

Blinn College men’s basketball (19-6, 7-6) defeated the Houston Gladiators in the final non-conference game of the season, 128-109, Saturday in the Kruse Center.

Blinn College women’s basketball (10-14, 3-9) was unable to catch No. 2 Trinity Valley Community College, falling 83-52 Saturday in the Kruse Center.

Blinn College softball (6-3) recorded a 9-8 extra-inning victory over Ranger College to kick off the final day of the 2019 San Jacinto Round Robin on Saturday.

The roughly 1,600 migrants, who are mostly Honduran, are being housed in a former warehouse in Piedras Negras — and being guarded by Mexican law enforcement — while they wait to be let into the U.S. But processing is going slow.

According to recent studies, the vast majority of the American middle class is only one missed paycheck away from poverty. About 78% of workers in the United States are living paycheck to paycheck, and the statistics don’t improve from there.

Blinn College baseball’s pitching staff threw eight shutout innings before surrendering eight runs in the ninth inning for Navarro College to defeat the Buccaneers, 8-5, on Tuesday.

The Blinn College baseball team returns 13 players who played a significant role on last year’s team that tallied 37 wins and finished one game shy of the Region XIV South Zone Division title.

On Monday, Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush announced that Austin County and the cities of Sealy and Wallis will be awarded $5,993,387 in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds for infrastructure projects.

Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies in OPEC have proposed a formal alliance with a 10-nation group of petroleum producers led by Russia – an alliance that would “transform the cartel”.

Two of Facebook’s four fact checkers, Snopes and the Associated Press, have abruptly ended their fact-checking relationship with the social media giant. The announcement comes on the heels of a December report that the two-year relationship between Facebook and its fact checkers was in disarray. 

The debt crisis in the United States of America has reached apocalyptic proportions.  A new and horrifying report out details the reason.

The Blinn College District has named 131 student athletes to the Fall 2018 Don Wilhelm Athletic Director’s Honor Roll.

The Center for Community Health Development (CCHD), a research center within the Texas A&M School of Public Health, is conducting a local health assessment. Participants will be recruited by letter then contacted by phone –landline/cell – to request them to participate in the survey. Respondents may participate on the phone or online. Assessment results assist local organizations and communities understand the health-related needs of their residents. It is also used to secure funding to develop and improve health infrastructure and increase access to care like: rural transportation, mental health services, service coordination, patient education, physical activity and medication assistance. Please be aware of this when checking your mail.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denied parole for Former Austin County Tax Assessor/Collector Marcus Peña on January 7, 2019.

Blinn College men’s basketball captured its sixth straight victory, topping Lone Star College-Tomball, 100-75, Tuesday night in the Kruse Center.

Do you find that you don’t practice with your firearm as often as you should?  Is the expense of ammo one of the reasons?  Maybe you just can’t find time to go to the range.  Well, the iTarget Pro may be just what you need. 

Partisanship is one of the illnesses plaguing the U.S. body politic. We see this every election cycle as millions of voters cast straight-ticket ballots for candidates just because of the capital letter before their name. Voting records will be ignored. Rationalizations and excuses will be made. Bromides on how we must accept the “lesser of two evils” will be shoved down our throats. Lather, rinse, repeat.

In a report published Thursday by PlainSite, analysts calculated that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been regularly lying to investors and the public about the company’s user metrics, and that the company could be overestimating the number of users by as much as 50%.