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An expansion of an ongoing outpatient clinical trial, the study now includes metformin, fluvoxamine and ivermectin as possible treatments of COVID-19 and to prevent “long COVID”
Read moreJuly 7, 2021, Governor Greg Abbott issued a proclamation identifying 11 agenda items to be addressed in a Special Session beginning Thursday, July 8, 2021.
Read moreGovernor Abbott Orders Texas National Guard To Assist Texas Department Of Public Safety In Making Arrests Related To Border Crisis
Read moreOh, those crazy -o ending words! What are we going to do with them? Specifically, how do we know how to spell them when they become plural? And how do we make sure we don’t get a misspelled tattoo? Let’s march forward into the mess.
Read moreMany of you know that the position I hold as the typesetter is a two-year term and now as this summer comes to an end, so does my time here at the Citizen. I’d like to introduce you to my brother, and replacement, Isacc Vega. After searching for someone to take my place for a few weeks, which proved more difficult than I thought it would be, Isacc offered to take the job and will begin his time here soon. Isacc will become a junior this fall at Columbus High School and like me, he has various interests and extracurricular activities that he juggles throughout the year including the school band, soccer on the school and city teams, the youth group at First Baptist Church, and various others.
Read moreTexas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday signed HB 133, a bill sponsored and passed by Senator Lois W. Kolkhorst (R-Brenham) to increase Medicaid coverage for new mothers in Texas from two months to six months postpartum. Kolkhorst said that expanding new postpregnancy maternal care is a pressing need for qualifying Texas women and serves as an efficient and effective use of state and federal dollars.
Read moreGovernor Greg Abbott recently filed an amicus brief in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, an important Second Amendment case in the U.S. Supreme Court. At issue is whether New York’s denial of licenses to carry handguns for self-defense violates the Second Amendment.
Read moreWhen the distinguishedlooking elderly gentleman walked into the Iditarod Race headquarters (a room at the Roosevelt Hotel in Anchorage), I had no way of knowing this smiling man was going to lead me to my most embarrassing moment.
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