Dense breast

FDA adds breast density information during Women’s History Month It’s been over 10 years since my request to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to consider the requirement that women be informed about their breast density after their mammogram and over 10 years since an FDA advisory committee...

Permanent Daylight Savings Time? Big yes

FALLING FAR FROM THE TREE How do you feel about Daylight Sav ings Time? Most people have a love/hate relationship with it. A Texas senator and a state representative would like to get rid of it, and I’m all for it. Even though we lose an hour “springing forward” it’s definitely my favorite. Sen.

Agriculture

Farm bureau president shares his thoughts on HJR 126 Texans like to hunt and fish. It is part of our state’s heritage and culture. Is the activity worth protecting? Texas voters resoundingly answered, “Yes,” in 2015. A state constitutional amendment that year was approved with 81% support.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear editor, Thank you for covering my storyboard idea. The coverage highlighted the great work that the Milam County Historical Commission is doing throughout Rockdale and how they acknowledge the community. I am forever grateful to them and their support. Thank you again.

Help! I’m in bad trouble with the law

FALLING FAR FROM THE TREE Last Wednesday night I was sitting at the kitchen table with Mom and Dad when my phone rang. It was my friend Barbara Holly. It’s unusual for her to call me because more often than not we text or email. She wanted to go to lunch.

LOOKING BACK

10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO The all-day street working holiday pulled off in Rockdale was one of the biggest days from a get-together standpoint that this city had ever seen.

Rest in peace Judge Hashem

So many times in life we let various events go by and forget to take the time to acknowledge someone and their time here on ea r th. La st week former Milam County Judge Roge r Hashem passed away at the age of 81.

DID YOU KNOW . . .

According to the National Occupant Protection Use Survey conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the prevalence of drivers using handheld cell phones at any given daylight moment decreased from 5.2 percent in 2012 to 2.5 percent in 2021.

Giving Jesus to kids

I’ve been working on a sermon entitled, Good Sundays Make Better Families. Deuteronomy 6 tells me I have the responsibility to teach my kids about God. It’s not the Sunday School teacher’s job they provide nothing more than the gravy that goes with the biscuit.

A church for ‘whosoever’

On the Victoria Embankment of the River Thames, the oldest monument in London, Cleopatra's Needle, stands 68 feet high. It's made of pink Egyptian marble fashioned in 1475 BCE. It is quite possible that young Moses had looked up at it.