A new paper in the European Journal of Epidemiology that analyzed 168 countries and 2,947 US counties found that higher vaccination rates were not associated with fewer COVID-19 cases.

Many parents are becoming angry over the contempt with which they are treated by school officials. So school board officials are attempting to use federal “harassment” laws to silence critics.

The Bellville ISD is asking constituents to consider voting to approve a $112.4 million bond in the upcoming November election.  This sum of money has caused the community to divide into two groups.  ACNO was approached to publish the information that was placed in the Bellville Times for one side but, we waited until we had everything from both sides “for” and “against” before we were going to make it available to our audience.

New concerns are being raised about side effects from the Moderna vaccine against the coronavirus. Swedish health officials have now decided that a moratorium on giving the Moderna vaccine to anyone under 31 will be extended indefinitely, the U.K. Daily Mail reported. The pause on the Moderna shots had been scheduled to end on Dec. 1.

The question over whether the NIH funded risky gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China was officially ‘answered’ last week, after the agency claimed that one of their partners – EcoHealth Alliance, failed to report that they had ‘accidentally’ created a chimeric coronavirus that was able to infect humanized mice. So, now, the game of he said/she said ensues with the outcome, did Dr. Anthony Fauci knowingly lie to congress about gain-of-function or did he really have no knowledge of this research.

Blinn falls to Tyler.

Jayde Shelton leads number 2 Blinn.

The Austin County Emergency Services District No. 2 received a $10,000 grant from the BNSF Railway Foundation. The contribution is earmarked to go towards the Critical Radio Infrastructure Program to purchase radios that are needed.  

The Christian City Fellowship’s “X-MEN – Men’s Group” met to enjoy an authentic “Wilderness” Breakfast”. The breakfast came complete with a period accurate chuck wagon.

A widely propagated myth is that there is north of $2 trillion in “excess cash” savings spread evenly across the US population (courtesy of Biden’s trillions). However, this “excess” is actually only held by the top 20% of the wealthiest in America. But, the statistic that should make people pay attention is the fact that spending on credit cards among the lower income cohort has spiked with a 23% growth rate over a 2-year period, up from the summer average of 15%. According to Bank of America, this growing reliance on credit cards reflects “the loss of income support from the expiration of unemployment benefits (UI) which has disproportionally impacted the lower income population.”

The San Felipe De Austin State Historic site is preparing to open their newest outdoor exhibit:  Villa de Austin.  The exhibit will present stories from San Felipe de Austin’s business district and will open on the weekend of November 13th and 14th with free admission.

A global semiconductor shortage has reduced new car production and boosted used car demand. The average used car age on U.S. highways hit 12.1 this year, a record high, and has unleashed a repair boom. But with snarled supply chains, auto repair shops have had difficulty sourcing parts and told customers their cars could take weeks to fix, according to Bloomberg. 

Over the course of the last week, news commentators predicted a huge demonstration of thousand(s) of Netflix employees in protest of comedian Dave Chappelle’s The Closer special. How many employees walked out? Not one news organization put the real number in a headline, and only a few had the guts to even tweet that the actual protest was reduced in the end to “crowd of dozens” that gathered outside the company’s West Hollywood offices.

Austin County and surrounding area teams battled it out on Friday night in Week 9 of Texas Football.  Here are the scores that we have.

The second-ranked Blinn College volleyball team just missed a sweep of Region XIV foe and No. 13 Panola College on Thursday, settling instead for a 25-17, 25-12, 19-25, 25-21 road win in Carthage, Texas.

Free in-person/online event to help address water quality in the Mill Creek watershed

NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission with astronauts to the International Space Station. This is the third crew rotation mission with astronauts on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and the fourth flight with astronauts, including the Demo-2 test flight, as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

Continuation of the Texas range webinar series

The Blinn College women’s soccer team suffered a 5-0 shutout at the hands of No. 17 Navarro in Region XIV play Wednesday in Navarro.

The federal farm bill in 2018 made the substance legal because of its low THC content.