While most would probably chalk millennials’ aversion to investing up to the fact that they don’t have any savings or income to spare, one recent study suggested that even if they had the money, they wouldn’t put it in stocks.

The 64th Annual Youth Government Day was held at the Austin County Courthouse.  Students from all the schools in Austin County:  (Bellville, Sealy, Brazos, and Faith Academy) are treated to a day on first hand experience of how county government works.

The situation is a terrible tragedy as one of the most revered monuments in all of Catholicism looks like it could be completely destroyed, a historical tragedy that would be practically unrivaled in modern times. The cathedral’s 15-foot lead spire has collapsed, and the roof has as well, during holy week on the Catholic calendar, which is a busy season for Paris’s most popular tourist attraction.

New data from the Federal Reserve detailing citizens’ net worth shows that the issue of being “left behind” has now spread to all Americans aside from the top 10%, according to Bloomberg. This means that even the upper middle class is starting to feel the pain of income stagnation.

As world trade volume rolled over in late 2018 and into the new year, a sharp decline in shipping rates across all vessel types forced some operators to scrap their ships in Southeast Asia in the first three months of the year, reported The Wall Street Journal. In all regions of the world, warning signs are flashing red about the health of developed and emerging economies.

Blinn College softball hung on to an unblemished conference record by sweeping Laredo Community College on the road Friday. After defeating Laredo 9-6 in the first game of the doubleheader, the Buccaneers fought for a 5-4 win in the 10th inning.

Blinn College baseball (22-14, 15-10) displayed a strong offense and defense in its sweeping of Alvin Community College, 10-0 (5 inn.) and 9-2, Thursday at Leroy Dreyer Field for the Buccaneers sixth straight conference win.

Sealy FCCLA was honored to receive their first ever “Outstanding Chapter Award” and advisor Angela Gutowsky was recognized for “Outstanding Advisor” nominations.

Almost a month to the day after Facebook experienced its worst outage ever, Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp are again experiencing worldwide outages that started around 6:30 am Eastern, triggering a flurry of  complaints on rival social networks like Twitter.

National Beer Day is a great time to recognize the Amazing American Beer Renaissance! The growth in America’s breweries over the last decade, especially the exponential growth in craft breweries, microbreweries, and brewpubs, has to be one of the most remarkable small business success stories in a generation or more.

The White House is considering transferring immigrants detained at the southern border to Democrat-controlled “sanctuary cities.” After reports surfaced that the idea was brought up twice and shot down by attorneys from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), President Trump tweeted on Friday that his administration is “indeed, as reported, giving strong considerations to placing Illegal immigrants in Sanctuary Cities only,” adding “The Radical Left always seems to have an Open Borders, Open Arms policy – so this should make them very happy!”

A group of around 350 Central American migrants broke the locks on a gate at the Guatemala-Mexico border, forcing their way into Mexico to join a larger caravan of 2,000 or so migrants headed towards the United States, AP reports. 

Self-driving and semi-autonomous trucks could help fill the the major trucking shortage of 898,000 faced by America’s trucking industry.

The Bellville Hospital Foundation along with ERH Healthcare and TRG hosted a Townhall Meeting Monday night at the Bellville High School Auditorium.  The townhall focused on the future of the hospital in light of CHI, the current managing company, terminating their lease agreement.  CHI’s management officially ends on May 7, 2019, leaving the status of the Bellville Hospital in question.

Sealy took part in the larger “DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS TRASH-OFF” 2019 event on Saturday April 6, 2019.  Over 90 volunteers took part along with city council members and city employees in an effort to beautify Sealy by removing trash and debris from local roadsides.

According to a brand new report that was just released, Americans had to borrow 88 billion dollars to cover their medical bills last year.  That is a truly astounding number, and it shows just how dramatically our current health care system has failed.

A candidate forum was held on April 2, 2019 at Faith Academy Gym in Bellville hosting the candidates for the upcoming city council election. The entire video can be viewed here.

A joint study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of California at Davis Violence Prevention Research Program found that California’s much-touted mandated background checks had no impact on gun deaths, and researchers are puzzled as to why. The findings—which run counter to the conventional wisdom that gun control saves lives—have received almost no media attention.

The Federal Communications Commission has been fighting what seems like a never-ending battle against robocallers for the last several years.  Of the $208 million in fines that they have levied against illegal automated callers, they have only collected about $6,790, according to the Wall Street Journal.

“The Constitution’s protection of religious liberty is somehow even better than Chick-fil-A’s chicken,” Paxton wrote in a Thursday letter to San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg and the rest of the council.