60.35 Howe Enterprise January 9, 2023

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City continues to battle Chamber hosted first Howe Hump Day water infrastructure After last week in Washington, we just need to laugh a little about the situation…

Both the 2016 Cleveland Browns and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy started 0-14. ***** What do you get it you ask a politician to tell 'the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth'?

- Three different answers ***** What's the difference between a politician and a flying pig? - The letter "F". ***** What's the difference between a politician and a prostitute? - A prostitute will stop screwing you once you run out of money. ***** What's the definition of a politician? - A person whose skin is so thick they can stand upright even without a spine. ***** What does a politician do after he dies? - He lies still. ***** What do diapers and politicians have in common?

- They both stink and need to be changed often.

EDITOR’S NOTE—This column is reserved as an editorial column and may not necessarily reflect the policy of this publication.

INSIDE

FBC/XYZ, pg. 2 Lady Bulldogs, pg. 3 Bulldogs, pg. 4 Pat Fallon, pg. 6 Basketball schedules, pg. 7 Christian, pg. 9 History/Parenting, pg. 10 Hot Jobs, pg. 11 Chamber members, pg. 12 Past front pages, pg. 14-22

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Bulk Trash Pickup 2nd Friday of each month in Howe.

City of Howe workers Chris Bristow and Blake Hamner work on yet another busted line on Friday. Staff photo.

The City of Howe Public Works department has become overwhelmed over the last couple of months working countless hours of overtime trying to patch the city’s aging infrastructure after a change in water supply from well water to surface water. While the workers are frustrated, the citizens have become equally impatient with the continued discoloration of the water. The older the home in Howe, the most likelihood of continued discoloration due to home water lines having corrosion as well as city lines.

On Friday, another water pipe busted at the southeast corner of Collins Freeway and Haning Street about 10:30 am. City crew members immediately began identifying the situation which meant another weekend of work.

Grayson County Precinct 1 Commissioner Jeff Whitmire (middle) has a chat with Summit View Church Pastor Brett Hetrick (right) and Jared Coffey (left). Staff photo.

The Howe Area Chamber of Commerce kicked off their 2023 event schedule with a networking breakfast held at Summit Gardens on Wednesday. Around 20 showed up for breakfast and a chance to visit with other business owners.

The chamber purchased breakfast burritos from Quick Check in Howe

who was also named the Business of the Month in which owner Zack Wilks accepted a certificate.

After the meeting, the Howe Chamber board members gathered to plan out an event schedule for 2023. A preliminary date of Friday, May 5, 2023, was set for the annual Howe Hall of

Honor while the Founders Day Festival follows the next day on Saturday, May 6, 2023. There was discussion to moving the times to 4 pm to 8 pm for the event which for several years has been 2 pm to 8 pm.

On July 8, the chamber discussed hosting a BIN-

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Noble Ridge development underway

A new development has been underway for a bit now. Noble Ridge is a new subdivision that rests south of Summit Hill off of Summit Hill Parkway. Tract 1 of several phases comes to 71.798 acres. This is the current focal point inside Planned Development 4 (PD-4). Eventually, Tract 2 will come into play with 71.138 acres and Tract 3 with 76.862 acres.

As stated in the Dec. 19, 2022 (V. 60.32) edition of the Howe Enterprise, the entire development upon completion between Young Street to the south, Summit Hill Parkway to the north, Smith Road to the west,

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Dirt beginning to be moved in what will be the new Noble Ridge development adjacent to Summit Hill to the south. Staff photo.

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Howe Chamber

Above: The scene Wednesday morning at Summit Gardens for Howe Hump Day. Below: Zack Wilks of Quick Check and Brandon McKinney of TLD Design Consulting visit. Staff photo.

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GO event with big prizes and food and drinks included into the ticket cost.

Finally, the annual Christmas Parade is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023, at 2 pm with the route remaining the same as typical.

A tradition for the chamber has been to hold a Blue Bell Ice Cream Social each August around the beginning of school time and the chamber has chosen Thursday, August 3. Cavender Home Theater has traditionally been the sponsor of the event.

The Downtown Howe-lloween Festival is scheduled for Saturday, October 28 from 6 pm—8 pm on the 100 block of E. Haning Street.

FBC XYZ The First Baptist Church of Howe’s XYZ January meeting is this Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, at 10:30 in Fellowship Hall of the church. The program will be given by Misty Humphries who represents Reliant At Home, a Home Health and Hospice provider.

Misty will be sharing information about hospice—when is it appropriate;

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how Medicare works with it; what services are available; and who are the people that help. She wants to be sure all understand the difference between Home Health and Hospice and the relation between them.

All who are interested are invited to come and then stay to eat and fellowship after the program.

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Lady Bulldogs drop two games in highly competitive District 11-3A

Aubrielle West (33) of Howe fights for position at home Tuesday night at home against Bells. Photo by Michelle Carney.

The Howe Lady Bulldogs (8-14, 1-3) ran into a buzz saw portion of the schedule last when facing Bells (15-9, 3-1) and Gunter (19-7, 4-0). The results were losses to both great teams by scores of 54-26 and 43-12, respectively.

On Tuesday, the Lady Bulldogs hosted Bells who took an early 13-9 lead with Howe getting points from four different players in Jordan Brunner, Presley Shockey, Kendall Griffin, and Jentrie Doty. But the Lady Panthers held Howe scoreless in the second period meanwhile adding 17 of their own to make it 30-9 at intermission.

In the second half, Bells scored 14 in the third and 10 more in the fourth period while holding the Lady Bull-

dogs to five and 12.

Doty’s three 3-pointers made her the leading scorer for Howe with nine points. Others were Brunner (4), Emery Snapp (4), Teagan Stubblefield (3), Shockey (2), and Aubrielle West (2).

On Friday, Howe traveled to Gunter and lost 43-12 with Emery Snapp leading the way for Howe with seven points and four rebounds.

Howe is hosting Blue Ridge on Tuesday and traveling to Leonard on Friday needing to sweep the week.

Through 22 games a year ago, Howe also sat with an 8-14 record. But the Lady Bulldogs have improved defensively by two points per game.

Howe’s Jentrie Doty with one of her three 3-pointers at home against Bells on Tuesday night. Photo by Michelle Carney.

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Slumping Bulldogs have lost four straight, move to 0-3 in district play

Howe’s Jacob Campbell (33) puts up a layup at home against Bells Tuesday night. Photo by Michelle Carney.

Howe (8-8, 0-3) returned to the scene of “Haley nailed it at the buzzer” from a year ago in Gunter. The game did once again come down to a final frenzy, but this time, Haley was not in position to pull the Jedi miracle out of his bag of tricks and Howe fell to 0-3 by losing to the Gunter Tigers 34-33.

Haley led Howe in points and rebounds with 12 and 10, respectively.

Hoe shot 4-for-11 from the field and was 2-for-8 from behind the arc.

Campbell chipped in 10 points on 4-of -19 shooting and 2-of-10 from 3-point territory. Other scorers were Noah Riley (6), and Cooper Jones (1).

Howe started the week by hosting Bells (15-3, 3-0) and ended up allowing more points (49) to any district opponent since Bells scored 50 on Howe a year ago at home in a 50-38 loss. But Howe was sitting at 8-8 a year ago after 16 games and 2-4 a year ago in mid-January but strung together 9-straight wins to sweep the back half of district play and clinch a playoff spot and win a playoff game for the first time since the 2004-05 season. If Howe is going to repeat the performance from a year ago, they are going to need to need more offensive output than just junior Jacob Campbell, who is averaging 19.2 points per game while next on the list is Haley’s 8.6 per game.

At Gunter, Campbell got in early foul trouble within minutes of the game which led him to the bench for virtually the entire first half. Without their leading scorer, Howe turned in only nine points in the first half and trailed Gunter 20-9 at intermission. But the Bulldogs dominated the second half with Campbell unleashed in the game as they went on a 24-14 run to finish the game. However, they couldn’t overcome the early deficit and lost 3433.

On Tuesday night at home, Howe found themselves down by three after the first period and only had seven points offensively. But things heated up in the second with Bells extending their lead by six to hold a 26-17 lead.

But the Dogs were outscored 23-12 in the second half to take their second loss in district play.

Haley again was the leading scorer with 12 on 5-of-15 shooting from the field and totaled nine rebounds. Jones also ripped down nine rebounds to go along with his nine points. Campbell was held to only four points while Riley also chipped in four. Anthony Lowder scored three and Kaleb Taylor scored one.

Howe will host Blue Ridge on Tuesday and travel to Leonard on Friday evening needing to win both games to keep the doors open for post season play.

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New development

The development group has already completed a sidewalk that connects homes in Summit Hill to Summit Hill Elementary School so that kids do not have to walk in the street. Staff photo.

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and Bicentennial Park to the east is primarily a single-family development with some town homes. With the planned 1,000 lots, it could bring $400 million or more of a tax base to the City of Howe. It could mean $4-5 million per year to the ISD. The property was previously owned

by Cothran Malibu, investors in California, and represented local by Rex Real Estate.

PD-4 will also include a property owners association to help with landscape,

entrances, and other internal neighborhood issues. Inside the PD-4 are 70 percent masonry standards, masonry chimneys, oversized walking sidewalks. There’s a requirement for an 8foot trail that would hug the creek.

The development also allows the city to clear debt with Sherman for wastewater while also not hindering future budget considerations in the future. It also allows the city to speed up the process on the wastewater treatment plant which is the most critical piece to growth for the City of Howe.

The maps shown to the Planning & Zoning Commission in December’s meeting. Staff photo.

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US Representative Pat Fallon sold McCarthy for Speaker to voters despite concerns from constituents Editorial On an “Emergency Tele Town Hall” Thursday afternoon, US Congressman Pat Fallon of the Fourth District of Texas opened the meeting with a sales pitch on US House Speaker Designate Kevin McCarthy that acted as if his entire $40 billion Ukraine aid package was at stake if his constituents dare suggest someone for Speaker other than McCarthy. The United States was founded on the principles of representation for the people’s wants and needs. We have all learned too well that such hasn’t been the case.

After the hypothetical free television and jungle gym set were baited for the opening timeshare Speaker pitch was concluded, audience members were selected to give input in which some were in lockstep for McCarthy while most others were questioning his position and more favoring the Freedom Caucus that was blocking McCarthy in order to obtain more leverage in rules for the people instead of the members of Congress.

Fallon, who made the statement on the phone that “no one is to the right of me” recently voted to extend chain migration to adult dependents of employment visa holders. The same day, he voted to pass a $817 billion defense

US Representative Pat Fallon spoke at Howe’s Memorial Park on Oct. 6, 2022. Staff photo. spending bill without defunding military vaccine mandates. In May, he voted to fund the war in Ukraine through the end of Joe Biden's first term with a $40 billion aid package. If no one is to the right of him, then Republicans have a bigger problem than having to go 15 rounds to select a Speaker of the House.

Liberty Score by the Conservative Review gives Fallon a C grade on whether he is supporting conservative principles. He is a second year member of the US House of Representatives.

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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

2022-23 Local taxation State Sales Tax General Revenue Sales Tax Ad valorem reduction Sales Tax Economic Development (Type B) Sales Tax Total

6.25 % 1.00 % 0.50 % 0.50 % 8.25 %

City of Howe Tax Rate Howe I.S.D Tax Rate Grayson County Tax Rate Grayson College Tax Rate Total (per $100 valuation)

$0.54 $1.27 $0.31 $0.15 $2.27

Cityofhowe.org City Hall 116 E. Haning St., 903-532-5571 Mayor: Bill French City Administrator: Jeff Stanley City Secretary: Regina Harris Utility Billing and Municipal Court 116 E. Haning St. 903-532-5571 Utility Clerk: Beccy Roberts Court Clerk: Kristie Tatar (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 118 E. Haning 903-532-6888 (nonemergency) Fire Chief: Robert Maniet Howe Police Department 700 W. Haning St. 903-532-9971 (non-emergency) Dispatch 903813-4411 Police Chief: Carl Hudman Police Sergeant: Keith Milks Economic Development 100 E. O’Connell St. 903-532-6080 EDC Director: Monte Walker City Council meets third Tuesday at 700 W. Haning St. at 6 pm.

Planning & Zoning Commission Meets third Monday as needed Howe Community Facilities Development Corporation Meets as needed For more information visit the city website www.cityofhowe.org

2021-22 City of Howe Water, Sewer, Refuse collection rates - one bill WATER RATES Base (Minimum) Rate: $28.51 (uniform rate) Volume (Gallons): 1,000 Volume Charge: $7.82 p/ 1,000 gal. for 1,001-4,000 gallons $8.77 p/ 1,000 gal. for 4,001-20,000 gallons $9.76 p/ 1,000 gal. for 20,001-45,000 gallons $10.40 p/ 1,000 gal. for all consumption over 45,000 gallons CONNECTION, WATER TAP & METER INSTALLATION FEES Deposit: $150.00 Service Charge: $10.00 Connection: $20.00 Reconnect: $50.00 Tap Fees: (3/4” – 1”) = $900.00 (2” – 6”) = $1,500.00 Impact Fee: N/A New Meter Installations: 3/4” = $2,060.00 (Tap Fee, Meter Installation, Deposit) 1” = $2,110.00 (Tap Fee, Meter Installation, Deposit) 2” = $4,475.00 (Tap Fee, Meter Installation, Deposit) 4” = $4,550.00 (Tap Fee, Meter Installation, Deposit) 6” = $6,110.00 (Tap Fee, Meter Installation, Deposit) Hydrant Meter Deposit: $2,000.00 SEWER RATES & TAP FEES Base (Minimum) Rate: $35.28 (uniform rate) Volume (Gallons): 1,000 Volume Charge: $5.51 p/ 1,000 gallons Tap Fee: $900.00 Impact Fee: N/A OUTSIDE OF CITY LIMITS WATER RATES Base (Minimum) Rate: $42.76 (uniform rate) Volume (Gallons): 1,000 Volume Charge: $11.74 p/ 1,000 gal. for next 4,000 gallons $13.16 p/ 1,000 gal. for next 20,000 gallons $14.65 p/ 1,000 gal. for next 20,000 gallons $15.59 p/ 1,000 gal. for all over 45,000 gallons CONNECTION, WATER TAP & METER INSTALLATION FEES **SAME AS INSIDE CITY LIMITS** SEWER RATES N/A

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Enjoying the comforts of remaining the same As God continues to move upon the earth, He has never stopped calling His children to be truth seekers, to speak His words, and demonstrate His Dr. Billy Holland character. The painful fact is this does not happen automatically. There must be a passion to advance into God and this means the closer we come to Him the more we will become the best version of ourselves.

Most people have never really studied religious history and know very little about why we believe the way we do.

The traditions the masses learn about God derive from what they have been told and very few have the desire to research on their own to see if the information is correct. I better stop there before I make too many waves, but one thing we can agree on is that personal transformation is one of the foundational pillars of the Christian faith.

When we watch a baby grow and progress in their learning, we celebrate and rejoice in their development.

Likewise, there is no reason to doubt that God feels the same way about our spiritual maturity. Changes within our society and culture are inevitable and it’s easy to look back and remember how life used to be and how technology is always coming up with something new. Remember when we used to go to the movie rental store and used pay phones? When we look in the mirror, we can see that our bodies are slowly changing and unfortunately there is nothing we can do about it.

However, there is an area in our lives where change will not happen unless we want it to. We are in control of our spiritual growth.

When we think about God and the spiritual life, it’s relatively easy to construct ideas about the way we believe, and it seems that everyone has private interpretations. We have been given free will to make decisions and we are basically in control of what we think and do. Very few comprehend what it means to surrender their will unto God. We can go to church, sing songs,

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and even give a few dollars in the offering plate, but no one including God is going to force us to develop an intimate relationship with Him. Christians have been given a new spiritual identity with the capacity to be convicted which is the ability to discern what is right and wrong. However, we can override our guilty conscience by ignoring God, and like a lawyer presenting a case in a courtroom, we can justify our thoughts and actions in the light of intentional self-deception.

There are numerous examples of characters in the Bible who have rebelled against God including His favorite people the Jews, as no human is a robot that He can control. One of the dangers that every child of God faces is compromising with the world’s system which by the way is the easy path and very common among the lukewarm crowd. Only those who have developed an awareness of God’s presence will ever have the faith to stand for His truth. And what is this truth? Well, truth means a lot of different things to many people, but the truth I’m talking about is believing that God is who He says He is. Remember Pilate said to Jesus, “what is truth?” At this hour, this question has never been more urgent. In the preceding verse, Jesus said that He was a king bearing witness to divine truth, and everyone that understands this truth can hear His voice.

I’ve mentioned the comfortable path where we just try to get along with the system without offending anyone, but this is not the way Jesus lived and neither is it the way He wants us to be.

The desired path is a commitment to ignore our so-called dignified reputation and declare that obeying Him is our highest priority. When we make this choice, let us be prepared to experience a similar negative reaction that He faced. Taking up our cross and following His demands is not for the faint of heart because it places us on the front line of spiritual warfare. Will we choose the broad or the narrow way?

Could it be that our New Year’s resolutions are the result of spiritual conviction? Are we being reminded by the Lord about what He wants us to change? What a perfect time to examine our hearts and dedicate our lives to God more than ever before.

Read more about the Christian life at billyhollandministries.com

Local church calendar A Christian Fellowship 150 Fellowship Ln, Sherman, TX 75090 (903) 815-1333 Wednesday 6:30 pm – Potluck Meal 7:00 pm – Worship Service 7:00 pm – Jr & Sr High Youth Sunday 9:30 am – Sunday School (all ages) 10:30 am – Worship Service 10:30 am – KidZone Children’s Service (5yr – 12 yr.)

Community Bible Fellowship 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 First Baptist Church Dorchester 11831 FM 902, Dorchester, TX 75459 903-476-5525 Wednesday 6:00 pm - Meal (Donations for adults and kids eat free) 6:30 pm - Praise service 7:00 pm - Youth Bible Study 7:00 pm - Adult Bible Study 7:00 pm - RA's/GA's/children's group Sunday 9:00 am - Men's Prayer Time 9:45 am - Sunday School 10:45 am - A.M. Worship Service 5:00 pm - Adult Choir Practice 6:00 pm - Evening Worship First Baptist Church Howe 100 E. Davis St., Howe, TX 903-5325504 Wednesday 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

First United Methodist Church of Howe 810 N Denny St, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6718 Monday 9:30 am - Care Team Meeting 10:30 am - Pastor's Bible Study Tuesday 9:30 am - Women's Bible Study 11:30 am - Out and About with Pastor Stephen 6:30 pm Boy Scouts Wednesday 9:00 am - Wednesday Workers 6:30 pm - Jr. High and Sr. High Youth Saturday 9:00 am - Feed My Sheep (1st and 3rd Sat each month) Sunday 8:40 am - Fellowship and Donuts 9:00 am - Sunday School 10:00 am - Worship service 3:00 pm - Cub Scouts Howe Church of Christ 1205 N Collins Fwy, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6441 Wednesday 7:00 pm - Bible Classes (all ages) Sunday 9:00 am - Bible Classes (all ages) 10:00 am - Worship Service 5:00 pm - Worship Service Howe Church of the Square 100 E. O’Connell St., Howe, TX 75459 Sunday 10:00 am—Worship Service Summit View Church 910 S Denny St, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6828 Wednesday 7:00 pm - Radiate Youth 7:00 pm - Sanctuary of for prayer Sunday 9:30 am - Sunday School (kids, youth, women, men) 10:30 am - Worship Service 10:30 am - Kids Church

Times are subject to change.

Please check with each church for any possible changes

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

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Texas History Minute

The borders of the United States have expanded considerably since independence was declared. As the nation grew, newer and more detailed Ken Bridges maps were needed so the country could plan ahead and utilize the landscape and resources available. Gen. William Emory, an army cartographer, was a vital part of this process. Emory’s diligent studies and attention to detail not only shaped the borders of the United States but also shaped the borders of Texas and revealed the great wonders of the Upper Rio Grande.

William Hemsley Emory was born in September 1811 in Eastern Maryland.

He was extremely bright and as a young man earned an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.

He graduated from West Point in 1831 as a lieutenant and was assigned to an artillery unit. Looking for other opportunities to satisfy his curiosity and imagination, he resigned from the service in 1836 to pursue civil engineering. The army, however, lured him back two years later with a unique new program, the Corps of Topographical Engineers. This new unit was in charge of surveying resources and infrastructure for both potential military use and civilian development. He spent the next few years engaged in careful surveys of harbors and rivers on the East Coast. Also in 1838, he married Matilda Bache in Philadelphia. Bache was the great-granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin and the daughter of later Texas State Senator Richard Bache, Jr. In 1844, Emory arrived in Texas.

Though Texas was still independent, Texas was working with the United States in pursuit of annexation and invited the Corps of Topographical Engineers into the republic to examine what Texas had to offer. He spent months studying the Upper Rio Grande Valley, producing maps that were invaluable to American forces during the Mexican War two years later and much more accurate than had been produced up to that point. His survey of the American-Canadian border between 1844 and 1846 were also a valuable part of the negotiations over the resolution of the Oregon Country dispute and helped finalize the border between the two nations.

When war erupted against Mexico in 1846, he was assigned to join Col. Stephen Kearney in his trek from Kansas to New Mexico and then to California to strip the lightly populated and almost undefended area away from Mexico. The mission was a tremendous success, and the northern third of Mexico was in American hand in a matter of months. Along the way, Emory continued to make careful sur-

veys and notes of the regions the army marched through. In the course of the war, Mexican troops never again entered Texas. When the war was won in 1848, the Texas border at the Rio Grande was unquestioned, thanks to Emory’s maps.

His efforts would reap huge dividends again in 1853 when the United States finalized the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico. The United States had won what is now the southwestern quarter of the country as a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848. Mexico surrendered the lands from the Rio Grande in central New Mexico (what was then West Texas) across to California and the Pacific. Because of Emory’s surveys, federal officials realized some of the unique features of the area. Just south of the Gila River was a break in the Rocky Mountains, an area where the land was relatively smooth.

The area was ideal for railroad construction as the concept and ultimate route of the transcontinental railroad began to be discussed. As a result, Ambassador James Gadsden negotiated a new treaty with Mexico, paying $10 million for the land that became the southern edges of Arizona and New Mexico. Emory’s correspondence with U. S. Senator Thomas Rusk of Texas helped secure the treaty ratification in the Senate.

In 1855, Emory was named head of the International Boundary Commission. His reputation as a scientist and a mapmaker were growing. His two major reports on the geography and wildlife of the Southwest, Notes of a Military Reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth to San Diego (1846) and Report of the United States and Mexico Boundary Commission (1859) were major foundations in the later scientific study of the area.

During the Civil War, Emory served with distinction, rising to the rank of general and taking command of the Nineteenth Corps during the Shenandoah Campaign of 1864. He commanded the Department of the Gulf during Reconstruction, which served in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. In 1874, as the terroristic White League overthrew the elected government of Louisiana, Emory resorted to diplomacy to convince the coup plotters to restore the elected government and to peacefully disband. What could easily have escalated ended without further bloodshed.

He retired from the army in 1876 and moved east. He died in Washington, DC, in 1887 at age 76. Emory continued to be widely respected by geographers and cartographers in the years after his passing. Emory Peak in the Big Bend area was named in his honor as well as New Mexico’s Emory Pass.

Astronauts also named a crater on the Moon after him during the 1972 Apollo 17 mission. In the end, his years of study and calculations had an impact that shaped the United States and

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Living with children

Q: I’m a single mom who works from home.

At noon, I pick up my 5-year-old from half-day kindergarten. Because John Rosemond I’m unable to pay attention to her while I’m working, she wants to watch television for the rest of the afternoon. We have a noTV rule on school days, but I find myself unable to enforce it. If she isn’t watching TV, she’s at my door, complaining of boredom. Help!

A: My mother was single for most of the first seven years of my life, during which she worked and attended college. When she was home, studying or writing, she made it clear that her work was more important than my whims. Did I want more of her attention? Absolutely! Did I suffer because she created and enforced a boundary between us? Absolutely not!

In relationships of any sort, boundaries are essential to respect. No relationship boundary translates to exploitation on one side of the relationship and enabling on the other. Too many modern moms seem to think that enforcing firm boundaries between themselves and their kids will cause the latter to hemorrhage self-esteem all over the floor. Cowed by psychobabble into checking their authority at the door when they come home from work (or, in your case, when you bring your daughter home from school), the moms in question make one compromise after another with their kids.

COMPROMISE: Toss the no-TV rule because your daughter complains— with great drama, no doubt—of being bored after school.

NO COMPROMISE: Stick to your guns. Your daughter’s subsequent unhappiness will be short-lived, I assure you.

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Make a doorknob hanger of the sort one finds in hotel rooms.

Color one side red and the other side green. Hang it on the outside knob of the door that leads to your home office.

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When the red side of the doorknob hanger faces out, the message is, “Do not disturb me for anything other than a dire emergency.”

Every so often, when you can (but no more than twice a day), flip the hanger to green and call out, “Green light!”

That means you are available to her for 10 minutes or so.

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If she disturbs you when the “red light” is on, and she is not having an emergency, put her in her room, with her playthings, for the rest of the afternoon.

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Regardless, the two of you will do something creative together for 30 minutes (plenty of time) every evening—draw, color, read a book— after which it will be time for her to begin getting ready for bed.

In short, you make your daughter a very simple offer: She can either leave you alone through the afternoon and enjoy freedom, or she can bother you and be confined to her room. Three experiences with the latter option (the so-called “charm”) should solve your problem. In the meantime, your daughter will learn how to occupy herself, which is one of the most valuable of all life skills.

Family psychologist John Rosemond: parentguru.com, johnrosemond. com.

John Rosemond has worked with families, children, and parents since 1971 in the field of family psychology.

In 1971, John earned his masters in psychology from Western Illinois University and was elected to the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society.

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'Totally disgusting:’ Ex-HouseIntel chairmanblasts FBI forcensorship, election meddling

By John Solomon The former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says revelations that the FBI and intelligence community were pressuring social media companies to censor Americans' opinions is "totally disgusting" and should result in the punishment of officials and wholesale reform of agencies.

"From my perspective, there should be people going to jail for what they were doing," retired Michigan Republican Rep. Pete Hoekstra told Just the News in a wideranging interview Friday.

"This is scary for the American people that our intelligence community is being used to target Americans and to censor Americans' speech. Government has no role there. The intelligence community has absolutely no role."

Hoekstra, who led the House Intelligence Committee from 2004 to 2007 and later served as U.S. ambassador to The Netherlands, said the revelations from Elon Musk's Twitter files and a federal lawsuit brought by the Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general show that U.S. intelligence agencies and the FBI exceeded their legal authorities by monitoring Americans' social media posts and then pressuring social media companies to use their terms of service to censor opinions, most often conservative ones.

As examples, he cited revelations that the Department of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National (Continue…)

The Patriot Pony Drama, anger and concession: Kevin McCarthy’s grueling path to House Sending a Speaker portends battles ahead Message

By John Solomon Across four long and at times humiliating days, Rep. Kevin McCarthy clawed his way through 15 ballots and hours of back-room dealing to secure a House Speakership he has coveted since 2015, slowly eroding the opposition of 20 renegade Republicans intent on forcing change to the way Washington spends money.

The once-in-a-century drama inside the Capitol played out on national television, and at times resembled the more raucous British Parliament.

Lawmakers traded barbs and insults, openly bargained for concessions and even had to be restrained before the final victorious vote to avoid fisticuffs between GOP Reps. Mike Rogers and Matt Gaetz.

Even a former president, Donald Trump, had to intervene with his own pressure. And still it took an extraordinary reversal by the final six holdout Republicans, who changed their votes of opposition to “present” early Saturday to lower the threshold of victory so McCarthy could squeak out a win by a 216-212 margin.

Believe it or not, the surreal struggle to win the gavel may prove to be one of the easier missions the affable California Republican will face in the 118th Congress.

“That was easy, huh?,” McCarthy quipped in the wee hours of the morning Saturday after securing the victory and accepting the speakership.

“I never thought we’d get up here.”

His humor, nonetheless, pointed a compass at the arduous path that lies ahead.

The Speakership race exposed a longsimmering divide be-

tween establishment Republicans with a penchant for conceding to last-minute spending laws that have bloated the national debt from $6 trillion to $32 trillion over the last two decades and the more restless, rebellious members of the House Freedom Caucus forged in the fires of the Tea Party and MAGA movements and their take-no-hostages tactics.

The 20 Republicans who held out for more than a dozen votes to deprive McCarthy of the gavel forced sweeping concessions in the rules package that govern how Congress operates and votes.

Those concessions substantially shifted the power to decide what issues will be voted upon and what will be spent from tax dollars to House majority leadership – where it has resided for more than two decades – to rank-and-file members.

The new rules resemble those that House Speaker Newt Gingrich used to negotiate the first balanced budget in decades between a Republicanled Congress and the Clinton White House in the 1990s, something the renegade Republicans pressed for in negotiations.

But with a House in which the parties are divided by just a few seats, the new rules will not only empower rank-andfile Republicans to demand more of their leaders, it will also give Democrats unprecedented power to gum up the House agenda from their minority position.

McCarthy will face two rapid fire challenges in his first few months: he must still get the rules package passed that he negotiated with the holdout lawmakers. And then in a few short months, he’ll be pressured to block an effort to increase America’s debt limit.

That means that McCarthy, a son of Bakersfield and a son of a firefighter, will have plenty of political fires to extinguish himself in the new reality he created in order to win the job.

Whatever that history holds, McCarthy began his Speakership with a fiery speech chock full of promises, which included that the chamber’s first vote will be on legislation to revoke the 87,000 new IRS agents.

He promised to cut spending, confront bureaucrats who want to waste tax dollars, reverse the loss of jobs and supply chain to China and vigorously investigate the weaponization of federal law enforcement.

“Let me be clear, we will use the power of the purse and the power of the subpoena to get the job done,” he said to cheers from his caucus.

He also vowed to reopen the Capitol to all Americans after Democrats had closed it to the public in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Jan. 6 riot.

In his acceptance speech, he implored visitors who will get to return to the Capitol rotunda to stop and pause at the statues of Civil War heroes, remembering the sacrifices they made to save the union in an earlier era of national strife.

“For America to do it then, we can it do it now,” he said.

And as a reminder of the battle he persevered to win this week, McCarthy declared: “I never give up.”

Republican rebels in Congress do right byAmerica.

Super Contra Pedro L. Gonzalez January 5, 2023 In an interview with NTD, Bob Good announced that he and a handful of other Republican holdouts would continue challenging Kevin McCarthy’s bid for House speaker. As of this writing, McCarthy has lost the vote for speaker nearly a dozen times.

“Kevin McCarthy needs to drop out, he needs to do what’s best for the country, what’s best for the Congress, what’s best for the Republican conference,” Good said.

“We’ll drag this out as long as we need to. It’s worth spending a few days or even a couple of weeks to get a speaker that we’re going to have to live with,” he added.

“And the country cannot afford someone like Kevin McCarthy as speaker and we’re determined not to let that happen for the good of the country.”

I would be remiss if I did not confess a deep sense of delightful schadenfreude from watching Kevin get slapped around, so the prospect of stretching this humiliation ritual for weeks is enticing. That said, Good also made two key points fundamental to understanding why challenging McCarthy is critical: he has consistently failed the right when it counts, and you cannot combat the Democratic Party under the status quo McCarthy represents.

First, Good argued that no one defends McCar-

thy on merit because no one can. “When McCarthy was last majority leader, every single major spending bill he negotiated that he helped pass was done with a majority of Democrat votes and a minority of Republican votes,” he said. Good was referring to the period of Republican federal trifecta that began in 2017 and ended in 2019.

Good is right: despite GOP control of the House, Senate, and White House, every major budget bill passed with McCarthy as floor leader did so with more support from Democrats than Republicans.

That matters now, Good said, because the upcoming battle over the debt ceiling is an opportunity “to leverage true spending cuts, to leverage to get a secure border, to leverage ending the vaccine mandates, to leverage against the weaponization of the federal government against its citizens,” and so on. “What would tell you that Kevin McCarthy is the person to fight for that?”

Based on his record, nothing.

Second, Good said during the segment that he has never seen such “an anger, and an intensity, and a toughness” in the Republican conference directed at “Democrats who are ruining the country” the way he’s witnessed first-hand those things aimed at the rebels in Congress. That sounds about right.

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The Patriot Pony Sending a message (Continued from page 13)

Dan Crenshaw, rumored to have been incubated in the same GOP Petri dish as Paul Ryan, practically had a mental breakdown on television as he railed against the holdouts, twitching with rage beneath a petulant scowl like a bearded child. It seems we’re stuck with Liz Cheney, after all.

More to the point, Good made an important observation, even if he didn’t draw the most important conclusion from it, which is that Republicans, under the status quo, punch harder to the right than the left. That is something those claiming we need to give McCarthy the speakership, no questions asked, don’t care to consider: it is impossible to issue a meaningful challenge to the left under these conditions. It’s also deeply ironic that the same people clutching their pearls at a few wily officeholders insist that they are all that prevents Republicans from ushering in Armageddon upon the “Biden regime,” if only Mad Dog McCarthy would be unleashed.

But the real problem, in fact, is that with Republicans like these, Democrats seem redundant.

Just look at some of the key incoming House committee chairmen who are more aligned with Democrats than Republicans—another legacy of McCarthy’s leadership.

No one has documented McCarthy’s treachery better than Daniel Horowitz at The Blaze, so I’ll quote him at length. Horowitz relies on, among other things, each individual’s “Liberty Score,” which is a grade based on how often federal officeholders vote for the conservative position during a rolling 6-year period, as opposed to only the last election cycle. Starting with Energy and Commerce: The Energy and Commerce Committee is considered one of the most powerful committees in

economic and domestic policy. One would expect the rising chairman to be the most articulate foe of the global warming and green energy agenda.

Instead, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who has a 60% Liberty Score, is the quintessential fusionist who likes to validate the global warming agenda and the need for green energy while merely opposing the most extreme measures of transitioning too quickly.

And for the final five big committees: What about Appropriations? This is the committee that writes the budget, which is even more important than legislation. That is run by original never-Trumper Kay Granger, with a Liberty Score of 51%. She is one of the biggest spenders in Congress. The 12 appropriations subcommittee chairs, known as “cardinals,” are also run by big-government Republicans who love Pfizer, Ukraine, and the FBI more than our border.

The other major A-level House committee is Ways and Means, which is responsible for all tax and revenue bills. The front-runner for that job so far is Vern Buchanan with a 57% Liberty Score.

What about Foreign Affairs? Michael McCaul, another Republican Governance Group member, is slated to take over, after his disastrous tenure as Homeland Security Committee chair the last time Republicans were in the majority. That is when they couldn’t get the border taken care of—even with trifecta control—and the few good things implemented were done administratively by Trump.

Armed Services will be run by Mike Rogers, who holds a 61% Liberty Score in one of the most conservative districts in the country. The core reason we get crushed on every government funding bill is because people like Rogers believe in unlimited funding thrown at the woke and broken military without

any policy changes in return. He didn’t utter a word on the vaccine mandates in the military until months after it was too late. Now he is advocating that those who rebel against McCarthy should get kicked off committees.

Finally, there is the Rules Committee. In many respects, the Rules Committee is the committee of committees, because it determines which bills are voted out to the floor and under what rules and circumstances. The Rules Committee chairman is therefore the most powerful party leader after the speaker and majority leader. The incoming chairman, as I’ve already noted, is Rep. Tom Cole, who has a 50% Liberty Score. There’s almost not a single issue of importance on which he doesn’t agree with the Democrat premise, including the need for even more funding of Jan. 6 FBI persecutions.

All that and more is precisely why the ongoing challenge is so important.

Matt Rosendale, a Republican rebel from Montana, said that he had participated in more constructive discussion and debate over the last three days on the floor than he had for the last two years. “We cannot restore a functioning legislative body under current rules and leadership,” he said.

Maybe that means replacing McCarthy, or perhaps it will mean strapping him to a chair and having him sign his name in blood on a piece of parchment bound to his soul—if he hasn’t already sold it—that enumerates meaningful concessions. How this will end is yet to be determined, but it is the first time in a very long time that anyone in this country has tried to send a message to the powerful and hold their golden loafers to the fire, and that is, as they say, what democracy looks like.

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HereAre The Concessions McCarthy Had To Make For Speakership ZeroHedge

By Tyler Durden After four grueling days and 15 votes, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is finally Speaker of the House - but not without having made a pile of concessions to a group of hard-line Republicans who think he'll be too accommodating to uniparty interests.

The last vote came after a dramatic scene, where during the 14th vote Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) threw a wrench in the gears voting 'present,' which left McCarthy just one vote short of victory.

McCarthy - who clearly thought he had a deal, stormed up to Gaetz and exchanged words, during which a visibly angry Rep. Mike Rodgers bolted towards Gaetz and had to be muzzled and restrained.

During the final, 15th ballot, enough holdouts voted 'present' to bring the total required number of votes low enough for McCarthy to finally win around midnight.

Here's what McCarthy had to give up for the votes, according to The Epoch Times' Roger L. Simon, who interviewed first-year Congressman Andrew Ogles (R-TN), who has yet to be sworn in; I spoke with Ogles by phone the night of Jan. 6, 2023, before the roll call vote during which, it was said, two of the remaining rejectionists who couldn’t accept McCarthy personally would absent themselves so that the magic number would be lowered and the new Speaker could go over the top.

Apropos, Ogles informed me that what many had guessed was true. His absence from voting in a previous round was also planned. He waited to see that all was going according to plan before stepping forward to flip his vote to McCarthy after the initial round.

For Ogles, the basis of all the negotiations was to establish the rules of the game in Congress that had been altered over the years beyond recognition. As he pointed out, the rules of a game almost always determine the winner.

He shared with me a list of some of what has been roughly negotiated to date. The devil, as always, is in the details.

1. As has been reported, it will only take a single congressperson, acting in what is known as a Jeffersonian Motion, to move to remove the Speaker if he or she goes back on their word or policy agenda.

2. A “Church” style committee will be convened to look into the weaponization of the FBI and other government organizations (presumably the CIA, the subject of the original Church Committee) against the American people.

3. Term limits will be put up for a vote.

4. Bills presented to Congress will be single subject, not omnibus with all the attendant earmarks, and there will be a 72hour minimum period to read them.

5. The Texas Border Plan will be put before Congress. From The Hill: “The four-pronged plan aims to ‘Complete Physical Border Infrastructure,’ ‘Fix Border Enforcement Policies,’ ‘Enforce our Laws in the Interior’ and ‘Target Cartels & Criminal Organizations.'”

6. COVID mandates will be ended as will all funding for them, including so -called “emergency funding.”

7. Budget bills would stop the endless increases in the debt ceiling and hold the Senate accountable for the same.

In response to the outcome, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), one of the holdouts, said in a state-

ment that the antiMcCarthy Reps. "changed the way the government will be funded," and "changed the way committees will be formed."

"We secured votes on term limits, the fair tax, the Texas Border Plan, and so much more."

Bobert goes on to slam President Biden for calling the speakership process 'embarrassing for Republicans.

"How sad is it that us governing as the founders intended looks embarrassing to Democrats?" Bobert asked, adding "I'll tell you what's embarrassing. 40year high inflation is embarrassing. 5 million illegals crossing our southern border is embarrassing/ Surrendering to ISIS and fleeing Afghanistan is embarrassing. Having a president that cant' finish his sentences is embarrassing."

"It’s safe to say that we believe there ought to be specific, concrete limits on spending attached to a debt ceiling increase," said Rep. Chip Roy (RTX) on Thursday.

"There will be no clean debt ceiling increase, that’s for sure," said Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), another anti-McCarthy lawmaker who was convinced to switch his vote due to the concessions.

No word from Ogles on committee assignments or agreements, however there are discussions on positions for members of the Freedom Caucus.

Also no word on whether the House will hold a different kind of Jan. 6 investigation, unless it's going to be part of the new "Church" committee.

Meanwhile, The Hill notes that chairmanships on subcommittees are still going to need to be earned.

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