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Blinded by Science The eclipse came and went very quickly. The much anticipated event was spectacular at its peak moment and left town like thief in the ..day. No blackouts, cellphone outages, toilet paper or gasoline panics took place. All the Y2K fear tactics came and went just as the dot that crossed the sun. The only thing that became “meme-worthy” was the cloud cover in Texas. The old saying of “If you don’t like the weather in Texas, just wait a few minutes.” Well, no one had a few minutes...they had only 45 seconds or so. Last week on The Free Press, Uri Berliner dropped a bomb on the media world with “I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust” (see page 13). As discussed on the new America This Week, the longtime senior editor described how NPR fumbled three stories: Covid, the Hunter Biden laptop mess, and the Trump-Russia lie. This was a total lack of journalistic ethics which no doubt swayed voters. Is NPR literally taxpayer funded fraud? It appears as such. We’ve warned you about NPR over and over since about 2018. EDITOR’S NOTE—This column is reserved as an editorial column and may not necessarily reflect the policy of this publication.
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Howe ISD Agenda pg. 3 City Council Agenda, pg. 4 SHES Top Dogs, pg. 5 Daddy Daughter Dance, pg. 5 City Sales Tax, pg. 6 Bulldog Baseball, pg. 7 HHS Cheerleaders, pg. 7 Lady Bulldogs Softball pg. 7 Founders Day vendors, pg. 8 Hot Jobs, City Info, pg. 9 History/Christian, pg. 10 Local Churches, pg. 11 Patriot Pony, pg. 12-13 Chamber Members, pg. 14 Past front pages, 15-22 HoweEnterprise.com Stats January 2024—April 13, 2024 12,603 visits; 11,022 reads
Students from Howe Intermediate School watched the total eclipse come over Howe from the Howe Community Library. Staff photo. Students from each Howe ISD campus gazed up at the somewhat cloudy sky on Monday at 1:43:55 to catch a glimpse of the first total solar eclipse in Texas since 1878. The
Walker named to THSPA Academic All-State Elite team Howe High School senior Mahlon Walker was selected recently to the Texas High School Powerlifting Association Academic All-State Elite Team. He was one of 85 student athletes across Texas in all classifications from Class 1A to 6A to be selected in that category ahead of first and second team. He joins Denison’s Luke Horning as the only two selected from Grayson County. Walker is a 4-year letterman in powerlifting and 3-year varsity starter and
Mahlon Walker letterman in football. He is ranked in the top six in his class with a 4.0+ and recently earned the Presidential Scholarship from Austin College where he will attend in the fall.
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Talan Haley captured the district crown on Monday as he shot a 78 to lead all golfers at Stone Creek in Sherman. Howe High School, as a team, finished fifth overall with combined scores of Haley (78), Colton Little (98), Rowan Fair (100), Ethan Chitty (112), and Jacson Hightower (122).
HHS Junior Talan Haley. Courtesy photo.
Cement kiln meeting with Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick tonight at Kidd Key in Sherman Dorchester Mayor David Smith announced Thursday evening that Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick will be at Kidd Key Auditorium in Sherman tonight, April 15, at 7 pm to discuss what the proposed cement kiln would due to not only the Dorchester area, but also the North
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next one will take place long after their Howe High School graduation date. A tiny portion of the Texas Panhandle will see a total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, 2045.
Haley wins district title for boys golf, shoots at regionals today in Tyler
Haley will tee off today at the regional tournament Oak Hurst Golf Course.
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Texas region as is relates to the high-tech chip industry. The Kidd Key Auditorium is located at 400 N. Elm Street in Sherman. The capacity is around 900 which is double from the previous meeting held in Denison for the TCEQ process.
The volunteer beautification group Keep Howe Beautiful (KHB) is running low on volunteers and are hosting inviting prospective members to meet tonight (Monday, April 15) at Summit Gardens for coffee and cookies. KHB is hoping to sign up residents who are interested in helping to maintain city flower beds and pick up trash. The group is also continuing the Memorial Park project by building a structure to cover the rock from storms and rain. Trash-Off date is April 20 from 9 am to noon and will start at Summit Gardens.
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Griffin wins area in triple jump, Howe sends three to regional track meet
Aubrielle West
Kendall Griffin
Kendall Griffin will compete in three different events at the regional track meet and teammate Aurbielle West will compete in two events. For the boys, Braden Ulmer qualified for re-
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gionals in shot put. The event held in Rains saw Griffin became the area champion in the triple jump as she blasted off with a leap of 36(Continued on page 2)
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Standing on top—Kendall Griffin is the area champion in triple jump. Courtesy photo. (Continued from page 1)
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3.50. She also finished less than a second away from winning the 400 meter dash with a time of 1:03.59 for second place. Griffin finished fourth in long jump with a leap of 16-3.25.
Other Howe competitors were Riken Cross who finished eighth overall in the boys 300 meter hurdles with a time of 43.04.
Aubrielle West placed second in the discus with a throw of 101-9. She finished third in shot put with a throw of 33-8.50. She’ll compete in both events at the regional meet. On the boys side, Braden Ulmer will advance as he took second overall in
The girls also competed in the 4x400 relay and placed sixth overall with a time of 4:31.91. Members of the relay team were Griffin, Preslee Harrell, Jaedyn Jones, and Stephanie Bastida . The regional track meet will Friday and Saturday in Whitehouse, Texas.
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Howe ISD Board of Trustees agenda A Regular Meeting of the Board of Trustees of Howe ISD will be held on Monday, April 15, 2024, beginning at 6:00 p.m. at the Howe ISD Administration Office located at 105 W. Tutt St, Howe, Texas. I. II. III. IV. V.
CALL TO ORDER/DETERMINATION OF QUORUM INVOCATION/PLEDGES STUDENT/TEACHER RECOGNITION PUBLIC FORUM REPORTS A. Administrator Reports B. Superintendent Report 1. Enrollment 2. Personnel 3. Announcement of 2023-24 Board of Trustees Re quired Annual Training 4. Policy DC (LOCAL) – Hiring Authority 5. Report of Expenditures over $25,000 as Outlined in Policy CH(LOCAL) 6. Other Information VI. THE BOARD WILL CONSIDER, DISCUSS, AND/OR TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION REGARDING THE FOLLOWING: A. Consent Agenda Items 1. Minutes for Regular Meeting on March 18, 2024 2. Monthly Financial Reports 3. Quarterly Investment Report B. Approval of Expenditures over $50,000 as Outlined in Policy CH(LOCAL) C. 2024-25 Instructional Materials Allotment/TEKS Certification VII. VIII.
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Howe City Council agenda CALL MEETING TO ORDER INVOCATION PLEDGE TO FLAGS CITIZEN COMMENTS: The City Council invites citizens to speak to the Council on topics not already scheduled for public hearing or on the agenda. Citizens may address the Council for a maximum of two minutes. The Council is unable to respond to or discuss any issues that are brought up during this section that are not on the agenda, other than to make statement of specific factual information in response to a citizen’s inquiry or to recite existing policy in response to the inquiry. MAYOR COMMENTS: Election day is Saturday, May 4 – same as the Founders Day Festival. The Howe Hump Day Network Breakfast is held every first Wednesday of the month from 8 am – 9 am at Summit Gardens; everyone is welcome to attend. CONSENT ITEMS: These items consist of non-controversial, or “housekeeping” items required by law. Items may be considered individual by any Council member making such request prior to a motion and vote on the Consent Items: Discuss, consider, and act upon consent items which are marked by an *. * Minutes of Regular Council Meeting March 19, 2024. * Bills being paid for the month * Detailed check register report * Statement of Revenue and Expenditures * Independent Financial – Secured Deposits, March 31, 2024 * Recap and Standings – March 2024 ACTION ITEMS: 1. Discuss, consider, and act upon Addendum to Noble Ridge Development Agreement, amending the Noble Ridge Development Agreement. 2. Discuss, consider, and act upon temporary closure of Smith Road for road rehabilitation work (proposed closure from the southwest corner of Noble Ridge Tract 1 south to Young Street), including authorizing City staff to coordinate closure with construction efforts and said closures being subject to City engineer and/or City Administrator approvals of the specific closure plans. 3. Discuss, consider, and act upon a Notice to Vacate Conveyance Plat previously approved by the City of Howe on March 7, 2023 and recorded on April 26, 2023, as Document No. 2023-83 in the Property (Plat) Records of Grayson County, Texas (Ponderosa Point). 4. Discuss, consider and act upon revised Conveyance Plat of PONDEROSA POINT, Block A, Lots 1 and 2. 5. Discuss, consider, and act upon opening an interest-bearing account specifically for the Wastewater Treatment Plant and Property 6. Review and discuss Section 3 policy updates and information for the City's TxCDBG Contract #CDV23-0055 RESOLUTION NO. 2024-0004 RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN AND GRIEVANCE PROCEDURES; AND EXCESSIVE FORCE POLICY; AND FAIR HOUSING POLICY; AND SECTION 504 POLICY AND GRIEVANCE PROCEDURES; AND CODE OF CONDUCT POLICY FOR THE TxCDBG FUNDING THROUGH A TxCDBG GRANT FROM THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Public Hearing for Resolution No. 2024-0004 7.
Discuss, consider, and act upon Resolution No. 2024-0004
RESOLUTION NO. 2024-0005 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HOWE, TEXAS, OPPOSING AIR QUALITY PERMIT 167047, PREVENTION OF SIGNIFICANT DETERIORATION (PSD) PERMIT PSDTX1602, GREENHOUSE GAS PREVENTION OF SIGNIFICANT DETERIORATION (GHGPSD) PERMIT GHGPSDTX212, AND ALL OTHER PERMITS SUBMITTED TO THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OTHER GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES BY BM DORCHESTER, LLC, REGARDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PROPOSED DORCHESTER CEMENT PRODUCTION PLANT (PRECALCINER KILN AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT FACILITY) AND OPERATION OF PERMANENT ROCK AND CONCRETE CRUSHERS (QUARRY) AT A SITE EAST OF THE HIGHWAY 289 AND FM 902 INTERSECTION APPROXIMATELY .80 MILES, DIRECTLY NORTH OF FM 902 AFTER THE TAYLOR ROAD INTERSECTION; RECOGNIZING THE PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY, AND WELFARE IMPLICATIONS OF THE PROPOSED OPERATION; AND URGING THOROUGH REVIEW OF SAID APPLICATIONS. Public Hearing for Resolution No. 2024-0005 8.
Discuss, consider, and act upon Resolution No. 2024-0005
ORDINANCE NO. 817 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HOWE, TEXAS, APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE GRAYSON COUNTY THOROUGHFARE PLAN; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR A REPEALER; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE; FINDING AND DETERMINING THAT THE MEETING AT WHICH THIS ORDINANCE IS PASSED WAS NOTICED AND IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AS REQUIRED BY LAW. Public Hearing for Ordinance No. 817 9.
Discuss, consider, and act upon Ordinance No. 817 (Continued on page 5)
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City Council Agenda (Continued from page 4)
ORDINANCE NO. 818 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HOWE, TEXAS, AMENDING HOWE'S ZONING ORDINANCE, AS AMENDED, TO REZONE A TRACT OF LAND, CONSISTING OF 0.1148± ACRES OF LAND LOCATED IN THE OTP HOWE, BLOCK 3, LOT 9 10, ABSTRACT NO. 5912 – OTP HOWE, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, IN THE CITY OF HOWE, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, HERETOFORE ZONED SF-2; PROVIDING THAT THE TRACT IS HEREBY REZONED AS C-2; DESCRIBING THE TRACT TO BE REZONED; PROVIDING A PENALTY CLAUSE, SAVINGS AND REPEALING CLAUSE, SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE CAPTION HEREOF. Public Hearing for Ordinance No. 818
Second Grade - Jennifer Oates, Paisley Hawkins, Londyn Brooks, Maverick Burt, Noah Pio. First Grade - Azalea Delgado, Stella Armstrong, Makaylah Robertson, Charlotte Sheehy. Kindergarten - Jaxon Turney, Raven Hopper, Wyatt Waller, Marvin Sibrian, Barrett Anderson. Pre-K - Samantha Brena, Adelynn Murillo, Hayzle Morrison.
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Local sales tax receipts Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced last Wednesday he will send cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose districts $1.03 billion in local sales tax allocations for April, 5.5 percent more than in April 2023. These allocations are based on sales made in February by businesses that report tax monthly.
a moderate 5.97 percent growth. For the fiscal year, beginning in October, Howe is pacing ahead of last year’s pace by 8.43 percent at this time. For the fiscal year, Howe is averaging $52,287.90 in sales tax revenue per month.
In Howe, the total came to $47,494.99 which is lower than the typical or average month for the city as of late with
The city will keep $35,621.24 of the total amount and the Howe Community Facilities Development Corporation (Type B economic development) will receive $11,873.75).
City
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Sherman Denison aGainesville Celina Melissa Anna Van Alstyne Bonham Whitesboro Gunter Pottsboro Southmayd Whitewright Howe Leonard Collinsville Bells Tioga Oak Ridge Tom Bean Savoy Ector Dorchester
$2,712,515.28 $861,478.77 $757,434.42 $722,113.23 $685,215.64 $621,380.59 $281,111.40 $232,786.27 $173,621.03 $132,769.76 $78,076.37 $61,629.87 $54,819.30 $47,494.99 $40,989.45 $36,157.88 $28,915.95 $22,783.09 $15,822.86 $12,331.59 $6,139.56 $3,418.14 $1,279.68
Sherman Denison Gainesville Celina Melissa Anna Van Alstyne Bonham Whitesboro Gunter Pottsboro Southmayd Whitewright Howe Leonard Collinsville Bells Tioga Oak Ridge Tom Bean Savoy Ector Dorchester
$12,089,929.79 $3,563,309.01 $3,358,480.89 $3,204,746.67 $2,870,549.42 $2,652,224.81 $1,116,084.33 $1,023,586.90 $695,776.56 $406,945.06 $362,813.69 $230,661.99 $214,847.12 $208,015.41 $178,629.12 $145,915.74 $128,044.34 $100,804.74 $70,081.57 $61,179.67 $39,317.13 $15,879.86 $5,479.76
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Bulldogs swept by Gunter Lady Bulldogs lose to Bells and Blue Ridge The Howe Lady Bulldogs (10-9-1, 37) traveled to Bells Friday night and suffered a 9-1 loss. Howe is now playing without starting pitcher and middle of the lineup hitter Riley McCollum for the remainder of the season due to injury. Getting the start in the circle was Kamry Snapp who allowed only two earned runs in six innings of work. She allowed 10 hits, walked two and struck out one. Bells scored seven unearned runs thanks to seven errors by the Lady Bulldogs.
Howe’s Garren Lankford delivers a pitch on Friday night at home against Gunter. Photo by Michelle Carney. The Howe Bulldogs (7-14) were unable to stop the district leading Gunter Tigers last week as they lost 14 -0 and 14-2, respectively. On Tuesday at Gunter, Anthony Lowder got the start on the hill and lasted 2.2 innings, allowing six earned runs on eight hits. He walked four and struck out two. Howe made three errors in the contest which didn’t help their cause. David Grant came on in relief and pitched 1.1 innings, giving up one earned run on three hits. Garren Lankford’s triple was the highlight offensively as Howe was held to only three hits. Lowder contributed two singles. Braden Ulmer and Garrett Gibbs each drew a walk. On Friday, the Bulldogs went with Landon Throm on the bump. The lefty went three innings, allowing three earned runs on six hits. He walked one and struck out one. Lankford came in relief and pitched three innings, allowing five earned runs on five hits. He walked three. Gibbs pitched a third of an inning, giving up two earned runs on one hit allowed. He walked three hitters. Ulmer pitched the final two thirds and gave up one earned run on two hits. The Bulldogs had nine hits offensively with Ulmer accounting for three of them and an RBI. Lankford’s double was the only extra base hit which also
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At the plate, Ryleigh Craven went 3for-3 to lead the Lady Bulldogs who had a total of seven hits, all singles. Kamry Snapp added a couple of hits along with hits from Emery Snapp and Mya Burt.
11-3A Softball Standings xBells 8-2 xBlue Ridge 8-2 xGunter 8-2 xBonham 7-3 Howe 3-8 Leonard 1-9 Pottsboro 1-10 x-clinched playoffs berth On Saturday, Howe was defeated by Blue Ridge but information about the game was not known at the time of publication. Howe will finish the season this week with Senior Night against Leonard Tuesday at home.
State Championship banner presented
Gunter 8-0 xPottsboro 7-3 xBonham 7-3 xBlue Ridge 5-3 Bells 2-6 Leonard 1-7 Howe 0-8 x-clinched playoffs berth drove in a run. Others with hits were Lowder, Will Ingram, Kolby McNutt, Zeb Montgomery, and Luciano Vazquez. Howe will travel to Bells on Tuesday and host the Panthers on Friday. After that, they will close out the regular season with Leonard the following week.
HHSVarsity Cheerleaders announced for2024-25 Cheerleaders have been announced for the 2024-25 school year. For varsity, they include Zoey Camacho, Audrey Collier, Kimberlee Arteaga, Rylee Coffee (lieutenant), Preslee Harrell (captain), Hayden Adkins, Addison Klopfleisch, McKinzy McCollum, Zoey Montgomery, Kamryn Robertson, Harlee Shue, Laila Terry (cocaptain), Haley White, and Bridgette Montgomery (Mascot). Monica Little is the head coach.
Howe Middle School’s Band Director Julie Cook was presented with a banner for their 1C Concert March State Championship. The presenter was Middle School Principal Clay Wilson. Courtesy photo.
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Bulk Trash Pickup 2nd Friday of each month in Howe.
City of Howe SECONDS COUNT IN AN EMERGENCY! That's why the City of Howe has instituted the CodeRED Emergency Notification System - an ultra high-speed telephone communication service for emergency notifications. This system allows us to telephone all or targeted areas in case of an emergency situation that requires immediate action (such as a boil-water notice, missing child or evacuation notices). The system is capable of dialing 60,000 phone numbers per hour. It then delivers a pre-recorded message describing the situations to a live person or an answering machine in the affected area possibly including instructions requiring action on the part of the recipient. Once the situation is remedied, another call will be placed to the area signaling that the issue has been addressed and that normal activities can be resumed. The following information is required to add a telephone number into the "CodeRED" database: first and last name; address (physical address, no P.O. boxes); city; state; Zip Code; and primary phone number. The system works with cellular phones but requires a valid street address. When entering information, please fill out all of the screens because the newest data entered will replace the old data. Sign up by visiting http://www.co.grayson.tx.us/page/oem.cred
2023-24 Local taxation State Sales Tax General Revenue Sales Tax Economic Development (Type B) Sales Tax Total
6.25 % 1.25%
City of Howe Tax Rate Howe I.S.D Tax Rate Grayson County Tax Rate Grayson College Tax Rate Total (per $100 valuation)
$0.53 $1.05 $0.31 $0.15 $2.04
0.75 % 8.25 %
City Hall 116 E. Haning St., 903-532-5571 Mayor: Karla McDonald City Council: Michael Hill, Rodney Hough, Billie Ingram, Sarah Myrick, Joe Shephard City Administrator: Monte Walker City Secretary: Michelle Hewitt Utility Billing and Municipal Court 116 E. Haning St. 903-532-5571 Utility Clerk: Beccy Roberts Court Clerk: Julia McLaughlin (After hours night drop available) Public Works 317 S. Hughes St. Public Works Director: Mickey Phillips Code Enforcement 317 S. Hughes St. Code Enforcement Officer: Benjamin Fuhr Howe Fire Department/EMS 118 E. Haning 903-532-6888 (nonemergency) Fire Chief: Robert Maniet Howe Police Department 700 W. Haning St. 903-532-9971 (non-emergency) Dispatch 903-813-4411 Police Chief: Carl Hudman Economic Development City Council meets third Tuesday at 100 E. O’Connell St. at 6 pm. Planning & Zoning Commission Meets third Monday as needed Howe Community Facilities Development Corporation 903-532-6080 Howetexas.org EDC Director: Monte Walker Meets as needed For more information visit the city website www.cityofhowe.org
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Texas History Minute Scott Joplin was an early musician who transformed much of the landscape of popular music in the early 1900s. Though many details of his Ken Bridges short life are uncertain, his impact on early American music is undeniable.
he and his wife divorced. One of his operas, The Guest of Honor (1903), was a failure. His second marriage to Freddie Alexander of Little Rock ended when she just ten weeks after their 1904 wedding.
Joplin was born just after the Civil War in 1867 or 1868 possibly in East Texas, though even his place of birth is not entirely certain. His parents had been slaves. When he was young, the family moved to nearby Texarkana where his father worked on the railroad that effectively created the city. As a child, he learned piano and classical music from a variety of tutors in Texarkana.
Joplin moved to New York in 1907 and remarried. In 1910, he completed his next opera. Treemonisha was set in Rondo, just east of Texarkana, in the 1880s. In the story, a young woman on a plantation learns to read and write and discovers that education is a defense against fear and superstition that crippled her community. Crushed by poor reception of his opera, bankrupt, and his physical health collapsing, he had a nervous breakdown and was committed to a hospital in early 1917. He died three months later, not yet fifty years old.
In 1885, he left home, travelling across the country and playing piano in bars and houses of ill repute or anywhere he could find work. Joplin also attended college briefly to further study music theory and composition. Between 1895 and 1917, he published more than 80 songs, including classical music, operas, and a new form of popular music, ragtime.
After Joplin’s passing, his influence only grew. Many musicians continued to imitate his style, and ragtime music remained extremely popular, ultimately inspiring the genre of jazz by the 1920s and the big band music of the 1930s and 1940s. His Maple Leaf Rag was used often for the soundtracks of several movies made in the 1920s and 1930s.
Ragtime was known for its upbeat tempo, often played on piano or accompanied by fiddles, banjos, or trumpets. Joplin tied this new music in with classical musical theory with far less improvisation and turned it into an art form. By the mid-1890s, he was touring with his own group, the Texas Medley Quartet. His band performed at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair to wide acclaim. Music historians believe his performances started a ragtime craze in the country. In 1899, the Maple Leaf Rag, was published and became the most popular sheet music sold that year.
In 1973, composer Marvin Hamlisch adapted Joplin’s popular song from 1902, The Entertainer, for the musical score for the film The Sting, which starred Robert Redford and Paul Newman. The next year, Joplin was awarded a special posthumous Academy Award for Best Song. Portions of Treemonisha also began to be performed for audiences in the 1970s.
He moved to St. Louis in 1900 with his new wife, where he concentrated on teaching and composing. However, a string of tragedies began to unravel his life. An infant daughter died not long after his arrival in St. Louis, and
In 1976, he was awarded an honorary Pulitzer Prize for his contribution to American music. Joplin’s music came to embody the early twentieth century for many Americans as they looked back to the seemingly simpler times of nearly a century before. Overall, the nation again came to appreciate the unheralded artistic genius of Scott Joplin, the man who inspired so much of the music that America has enjoyed through the years.
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Spiritual sign or natural occurrence? We all know the feeling of having something on our minds that we have a difficult time letting go of. Similar to an image or a catchy song Dr. Billy Holland that gets stuck in our head, commonly called an earworm, negative thoughts can be very difficult to remove and the more we replay them the more familiar they become. Rumination is a psychological term for rehashing thoughts over and over. While it can simply mean being stuck in a mental cycle, that may not always be necessarily bad, the psychological term leans toward pessimistic thinking and feelings of what could have been. Some might worry incessantly about a conversation that embarrassed them, or having regret about a decision, and then live in misery over all the things they should have said or done. The past is not the only area where rumination can try to distract us and cause depression. We can also worry excessively about what could happen in the future. To say the least, such thinking is not only very unpleasant and a joy thief, but it can generally become self-destructive if we do not learn how to control it. One psychologist described it as a turntable where the stylus runs in the groove of the record. Psychological rumination causes these memory grooves to get deeper and deeper, so it becomes more difficult to escape from the rut. What’s more, if we submit to the temptation of ruminating, we may become more upset than we were originally because the issue now becomes magnified or even exaggerated in our minds. We’ve all heard the common saying, “It’s all in your head” which helps identify that much of our worries are from our inability to control our thoughts. We know that anxiety, fear, and sadness can haunt the mind and influence how we live and who we are. In the realm of good and evil, the Bible talks about an evil spiritual enemy whose mission is to deceive and persuade us to listen to his voice. He realizes the mind is the battlefield where he can attack those who are mentally and
emotionally vulnerable to external influences. It’s no secret that if he is given access to our secret place of thoughts, he will prepare his ambush and release an assault of spiritual oppression upon us to distract and manipulate us into a destructive pattern of condemnation and pity. This is why we must build a fortress to guard our hearts and minds from his lies. Of course, we all have memories we wish we could have a second chance to make better, along with perceptions and fears that desire to paralyze us with dread. But if we spend too much time dwelling on spilled milk that we cannot change, our most significant regret will be that we could have used this energy to empower and enhance our future. Can you see what the enemy is trying to do? So, how can we develop a strategy to battle against these negative deceptions that are trying to steal, kill, and destroy? We can research and learn the reality of spiritual warfare and this will reveal what we are facing and help us develop an awareness of not only the tactics of the dark side but the glories of God’s presence. If we can grow stronger in spiritual discernment and comprehend where these dark thoughts are coming from, we can rebuke Satan in the Name of Jesus and pray and ask God for His help. Revelation chapter 12 gives us insight into this dangerous entity called the accuser of the brethren, as the buttons of our vulnerable emotional areas will continually be his target until we learn how to resist him. Ignoring our accountability to control our thoughts and feelings will allow them to dictate our every idea and decision. We must decide if we are tired of being controlled. Emotions were never meant to lead us, we are created to be led by the voice of God, and it encourages us to know that we can overcome the devil by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of our testimony. It’s also very critical to forgive ourselves. We can ask others to forgive us for our failures, but God does not condemn us and wants to heal and restore our souls. Today we have a wonderful opportunity to take all we have learned and become more determined to enjoy the abundant life Jesus Christ has provided as we accomplish God’s will. Read more about the victorious Christian life at billyhollandministries.com
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First Baptist Church Dorchester Zach Poling, pastor 11831 FM 902, Dorchester, TX 75459 903-476-5525 Wednesday 6:30 pm - Worship service Sunday 9:00 am - Men's Prayer Time 9:45 am - Sunday School 10:45 am - Worship Service 5:00 pm - Evening Service Summit View Church Brett and Deb Hetrick, pastors
Community Bible Fellowship Jeremy Moore, pastor
Howe Methodist Church of Howe JB Bryant, minister
415 S Collins Fwy, Howe, TX 75459 Wednesday 6:30 pm - Food and Fellowship 7:00 pm - Community Kids (ages 3 6th grade, nursery available) 7:00 pm - Youth and Adult Bible Study Sunday 10:30 am - Worship Service
810 N Denny St, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6718 Tuesday: 8:30am - 1:00pm WeeCare Daycare (Registration needed) 9:30am - Women's Bible Study 6:30pm - Boy Scouts Wednesday: 9:00am - Wednesday Workers 6:00pm - 1st and 3rd Wednesdays Family Night Thursday: 8:30am - 1:00pm - WeeCare Daycare (Registration needed) Saturday: 9:00am-12:00pm - Feed My Sheep (1st & 3rd Sat. of each month) Sunday: 8:30am - Coffee and Donuts 9:00am - Sunday School 10:00am - Worship Service 3:00pm Cub Scouts
First Baptist Church Howe Roger Tidwell, pastor 100 E. Davis St., Howe, TX 903-5325504 Wednesday 5:30 pm—Free Meal 6:30 pm - Team Kid 6:30 pm - Youth Ministry 6:30 pm - Adult Bible Fellowship Sunday 9:15 am - Bible Fellowship 10:30am - Worship Service 6:00 pm—Potluck Fellowship and Bible Study
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Anti-Science? Scientific Reporting RE: Covid-19 mRNA vaccines "Anti-Science"Accusations areAnti-Scientific By Dr. Robert Malone We now know that a wide range of psychological manipulation methods (PsyWar and Cognitive Warfare) were deployed by western governments since early 2020 to support false narrative scaffolds that SARS-CoV-2 is a highly lethal virus, that the deployed COVID genetic vaccines were safe, effective, and necessary to prevent widespread excessive death (ergo the incorrectly modeled 3.4% case fatality rate), and innumerable other lies. Multiple examples exist which demonstrate that governmentally deployed “nudge” technology, intentional “fear” messaging targeting both children and adults, and literally thousands of funded academic studies probing methods for overcoming “vaccine hesitancy” have been deployed against the general populace. These methods and techniques were further amplified by established legacy/corporate media and their employees, who functioned as propagandists rather than serving as independent investigators and arbiters of truthful information. Furthermore, a wide range of weaponized terms were developed and deployed as intentional smears by government, non-governmental organizations and corporate media in an attempt to censor and delegitimize scientists, physicians, and others who dared to question these promoted false narratives. As a component of this propaganda campaign, a new lexicon was also developed and weaponized, including terms such as “anti-vaxxer”- which was quite literally redefined in Webster’s dictionary to include any who did not support vaccine mandates, as well as the notorious trio of misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation. These three terms were widely used by media, government and NGO to label and discredit any who did no parrot the approved but often shifting narrative flowing from CDC, NIH, FDA, or WHO, and once injected into common use were then defined by DHS as justification for labeling any accused of spreading such as domestic terrorists. The specific definition of the term “vaccine” was even modified to align with newly developed pharmaceutical products which rely on polynucleotide (genetic information) delivery technology.
Of all of the linguistic and cognitive manipulations weaponized during the COVIDcrisis, one of the most offensive and corrosive relates to the meaning of the word “Science”, with active promotion of the concept that those who question the (now proven to be) false promoted narratives were “antiScience”, that organizations such as the United Nations, World Health Organization or World Economic Forum could “own the Science”, or that a governmental official (such as Dr. Anthony Fauci) could personify and embody “Science”. All of this consciously and intentionally weaponized psychological manipulation was then cast into a political context which shifted as the Presidential election season approached and US Executive Branch leadership transitioned between parties. Democrat party candidates who were extremely skeptical of the safety and effectiveness of rushed, experimental “Emergency Use Authorized” genetic vaccines developed under the preceding Trump administration suddenly became unquestioning advocates for the same products, mandating their use for military personnel, federal employees and federal contractors. Flipping from skeptics to fanatics, the new administration employed a variety of coercive tactics to coerce or entice public and private sector endorsement of mandates including for College and School-age children who were at virtually no risk for death from COVID disease. To provide just one of many examples to illustrate the partisan politicization of “Science”, it is worth reading the Harvard Gazette October 2020 essay titled “Why isn’t the right more afraid of COVID-19? Rejecting science and expertise, as the president urges, has become a reflection of loyalty, analysts say”. The excerpt below is typical of the analysis covered in the essay, which has not aged well. Since publication, time has validated the underlying truth that the overall morbidity and mortality of SARSCoV-2 pales in comparison to the damage caused by the promoted public health response. In other words, the article is much like most of the officially promoted narratives and corporate media propaganda.
“Observers of conservative politics say it’s perfectly logical that Trump fans so willingly accept his counterfactual statements about the pandemic and go along with efforts to discredit scientists in order to delegitimize politically damaging statistics. For years, Republicans have successfully seized upon a larger cultural trend of diminished faith in experts around issues like climate change. “We think expertise is this very exclusionary idea, which it is, because it’s supposed to be: Not everybody gets a vote on how to fly the plane,” said Nichols, who wrote about the trend in a 2017 book, “The Death of Expertise.” In the pandemic, “This rejection of science and of expertise [has] become [a] demonstration of political loyalty. That’s the part I didn’t expect — that there would be an entire political movement, led by the president of the United States, to basically disavow science.” In a recent interview, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that because science still holds a place of esteem and authority in the wider culture, it has become a proxy for those who want to lash out against authority figures. It’s a view Nichols shares. “At the end of the ’60s and ’70s, the right won the economic war. The American economy is structured just the way conservatives want. But the left won the culture war, and that just annoys the [expletive] out of conservatives,” said Nichols, a former Republican who left the party in 2018. He is now part of the Lincoln Project, an anti -Trump political action group of mostly lapsed.” It is now time to revisit, reflect and analyze the impacts which this propaganda, censorship, and targeted bullying, cyberstalking and harassment campaigns have had on public health enterprises as well as on the legitimacy of the World Health Organization as a global coordinator for public health responses to perceived and promoted health threats. In particular, as is often
the case with surreptitious “intelligence” operations, it is time to consider the “blowback” or unintended consequences of these heavyhanded policies, and the long term damages they have caused to both the vaccine enterprise and support for universal “public health” measures and mandates in general. Just as has happened with so many other propaganda campaigns such as those deployed in support of otherwise unpopular or unethical government-endorsed domestic and foreign policy objectives, the short term benefits are often negated by long term consequences. Now those who promoted these false narratives must confront the damage they have caused to legitimate public health objectives. A newly published peer-reviewed academic manuscript has examined the recent history of how the scientific reporting about Covid-19 mRNA vaccines has evolved. The findings demonstrate the absurdity of the weaponized jargon “Anti-Science”. To a significant extent, the term “AntiScience” was foreshadowed, weaponized and injected into national and international use by noted vaccine proponent Dr. Peter Hotez, who in March 2020 published an opinion titled “Combating antiscience: Are we preparing for the 2020s?” In this essay, Dr. Hotez basically proposes that during their training, science students be converted into policy advocates rather than politically impartial investigators of truth, much as journalism schools are now focused on creating practitioners of “advocacy journalism” (ergo propaganda) rather than more traditional impartial and balanced investigative journalists. According to Dr. Hotez; In the last half of the 2010s, we saw an upswing in antiscience movements and unprecedented attacks on scientists in the United States and elsewhere. All indications suggest that this trend will not slow or reverse anytime soon, and it is now increasingly apparent that it (Continue reading…)
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I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust. Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the networklost its way when it started telling listeners how to think. By Uri Berliner April 9, 2024 You know the stereotype of the NPR listener: an EV-driving, Wordleplaying, tote bag–carrying coastal elite. It doesn’t precisely describe me, but it’s not far off. I’m Sarah Lawrence– educated, was raised by a lesbian peace activist mother, I drive a Subaru, and Spotify says my listening habits are most similar to people in Berkeley. I fit the NPR mold. I’ll cop to that. So when I got a job here 25 years ago, I never looked back. As a senior editor on the business desk where news is always breaking, we’ve covered upheavals in the workplace, supermarket prices, social media, and AI. It’s true NPR has always had a liberal bent, but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed. We were nerdy, but not knee -jerk, activist, or scolding. In recent years, however, that has changed. Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population. If you are conservative, you will read this and say, duh, it’s always been this way. But it hasn’t. For decades, since its founding in 1970, a wide swath of America tuned in to NPR for reliable journalism and gorgeous audio pieces with birds singing in the Amazon. Millions came to us for conversations that exposed us to voices around the country and the world radically different from our own—engaging precisely because they were unguarded and unpredictable. No image generated more pride within NPR than the farmer listening to Morning Edition from his or her tractor at sunrise. Back in 2011, although NPR’s audience tilted a bit to the left, it still bore a resemblance to America at large. Twenty-six percent of listeners described themselves as conservative, 23 percent as middle of the road, and 37 percent as liberal. By 2023, the picture was completely different: only 11 percent described themselves as very or somewhat conservative, 21 percent as middle of the road, and 67 percent of listeners said they were very or somewhat liberal. We weren’t just losing conservatives; we were also losing moderates and traditional liberals. An open-minded spirit no longer exists
within NPR, and now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America. That wouldn’t be a problem for an openly polemical news outlet serving a niche audience. But for NPR, which purports to consider all things, it’s devastating both for its journalism and its business model. Like many unfortunate things, the rise of advocacy took off with Donald Trump. As in many newsrooms, his election in 2016 was greeted at NPR with a mixture of disbelief, anger, and despair. (Just to note, I eagerly voted against Trump twice but felt we were obliged to cover him fairly.) But what began as tough, straightforward coverage of a belligerent, truth-impaired president veered toward efforts to damage or topple Trump’s presidency. Persistent rumors that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia over the election became the catnip that drove reporting. At NPR, we hitched our wagon to Trump’s most visible antagonist, Representative Adam Schiff. Schiff, who was the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, became NPR’s guiding hand, its everpresent muse. By my count, NPR hosts interviewed Schiff 25 times about Trump and Russia. During many of those conversations, Schiff alluded to purported evidence of collusion. The Schiff talking points became the drumbeat of NPR news reports. But when the Mueller report found no credible evidence of collusion, NPR’s coverage was notably sparse. Russiagate quietly faded from our programming. It is one thing to swing and miss on a major story. Unfortunately, it happens. You follow the wrong leads, you get misled by sources you trusted, you’re emotionally invested in a narrative, and bits of circumstantial evidence never add up. It’s bad to blow a big story. What’s worse is to pretend it never happened, to move on with no mea culpas, no self-reflection. Especially when you expect high standards of transparency from public figures and institutions, but don’t practice those standards yourself. That’s what shatters trust and engenders cynicism about the media. Russiagate was not NPR’s only miscue. In October 2020, the New York Post published the explosive report about the laptop Hunter Biden abandoned at a Delaware computer shop containing emails about his sordid business dealings. With the election only weeks
away, NPR turned a blind eye. Here’s how NPR’s managing editor for news at the time explained the thinking: “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.” But it wasn’t a pure distraction, or a product of Russian disinformation, as dozens of former and current intelligence officials suggested. The laptop did belong to Hunter Biden. Its contents revealed his connection to the corrupt world of multimillion-dollar influence peddling and its possible implications for his father. The laptop was newsworthy. But the timeless journalistic instinct of following a hot story lead was being squelched. During a meeting with colleagues, I listened as one of NPR’s best and most fair-minded journalists said it was good we weren’t following the laptop story because it could help Trump. When the essential facts of the Post’s reporting were confirmed and the emails verified independently about a year and a half later, we could have fessed up to our misjudgment. But, like Russia collusion, we didn’t make the hard choice of transparency. Politics also intruded into NPR’s Covid coverage, most notably in reporting on the origin of the pandemic. One of the most dismal aspects of Covid journalism is how quickly it defaulted to ideological story lines. For example, there was Team Natural Origin—supporting the hypothesis that the virus came from a wild animal market in Wuhan, China. And on the other side, Team Lab Leak, leaning into the idea that the virus escaped from a Wuhan lab. The lab leak theory came in for rough treatment almost immediately, dismissed as racist or a right-wing conspiracy theory. Anthony Fauci and former NIH head Francis Collins, representing the public health establishment, were its most notable critics. And that was enough for NPR. We became fervent members of Team Natural Origin, even declaring that the lab leak had been debunked by scien-
tists. But that wasn’t the case. When word first broke of a mysterious virus in Wuhan, a number of leading virologists immediately suspected it could have leaked from a lab there conducting experiments on bat coronaviruses. This was in January 2020, during calmer moments before a global pandemic had been declared, and before fear spread and politics intruded. Reporting on a possible lab leak soon became radioactive. Fauci and Collins apparently encouraged the March publication of an influential scientific paper known as “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2.” Its authors wrote they didn’t believe “any type of laboratorybased scenario is plausible.” But the lab leak hypothesis wouldn’t die. And understandably so. In private, even some of the scientists who penned the article dismissing it sounded a different tune. One of the authors, Andrew Rambaut, an evolutionary biologist from Edinburgh University, wrote to his colleagues, “I literally swivel day by day thinking it is a lab escape or natural.” Over the course of the pandemic, a number of investigative journalists made compelling, if not conclusive, cases for the lab leak. But at NPR, we weren’t about to swivel or even tiptoe away from the insistence with which we backed the natural origin story. We didn’t budge when the Energy Department—the federal agency with the most expertise about laboratories and biological research—concluded, albeit with low confidence, that a lab leak was the most likely explanation for the emergence of the virus. Instead, we introduced our coverage of that development on February 28, 2023, by asserting confidently that “the scientific evidence overwhelmingly points to a natural origin for the virus.” When a colleague on our science desk was asked why they were so dismissive of the lab leak theory, the response was odd. The colleague compared it to the Bush administration’s (Continue reading…)
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