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I worked in inner city Beaumont for 15 years, exclusively with families below the poverty line. Lots of them do things right, but lots of them abuse the system. To pretend the abuse isn’t rampant is silly. As someone who devoted what will end up being around half of my professional career to helping and working with the impoverished, I have no issue with more restrictions on what government handouts are used for. Nobody should starve, but other people’s tax money shouldn’t be spent on luxuries.

In the BISD case, the naming of the stadium was strictly a school board kissing butt. Majority of community wasn't really behind it. (including part of the black community). The school board made the decision without any input from the community. Only a very small portion of the community want the stadium name to go back to Thomas. Might be a loud portion, but definitely not the majority. I can't speak on the Midland community and how the majority of it's community wanted the Lee name back. Sounds like their voices were heard. I think it's different due to what the majority wants from both these communities.

Had the beatdown been reversed it would be covered very differently. Keep it up Libs.........stuff like this is why President Trump got elected. Oh, the 99 that filmed and did not report it should be sitting next to the 3 pieces of garbage in a jail cell.

You really should quit while you’re behind. This ISN’T civil disobedience. It’s dereliction of duty. It’s a civil offense according to the Texas Constitution, and CAN result in expulsion. The link you posted is great. But, it points out minimum requirements on timing & procedures for implementation. Nothing is written anywhere in the Texas Constitution about not having redistricting on a shorter time basis. Redistricting MUST be done every 10 years after the national census. It could be done every other year. Nothing prevents it. There will be lawsuits either way. It DOES NOT take a Constitutional Amendment. Not sure where you’re pulling all this stuff from, but it must be dark in there. In Texas’ history, only one Party has ever used the quorum break option, even though—historically—they’ve been the majority in Texas. Democrats have used this ‘nuclear option’ four times. 1870, 1979, 2003, and 2021. Now, we have five times. Republicans have NEVER used this option, even though they have actually been the minority Party in Texas for the majority of its history. You say Republicans in Texas are acting like ‘occupiers.’ Interesting. I say they were voted in to represent their constituents, and are the clear majority in Texas. I may not like this redistricting idea at this time. I think it opens a can of worms that don’t need to be opened. But, it’s legal. I could even argue—with the recent population growth—it may be appropriate to relook at the timing of redistricting in general. But, I think it should be something done in regular session & not rushed through at the whims of DC. So far, you’ve been posting a lot about this with very little real, accurate info to back up your posts.

Are y’all that blind? Who doesn’t associate smoking hot women advertising in the free market with the slaughtering of millions of people based on race and religion??? ….. and they wonder why they are doing so poorly in the polls. 🤣🤣🤣

I'd like to think its 51:44 of great football talk...but I'm biased

I agree. I compare this news source as the same as the Gateway Pundits of the world that get posted here daily.

The qb room is in good hands, not only this year, but years to come. I think Nederland will be out to prove that last year wasn’t a fluke and build off the success Coach Rich brought in his first year.

It’s just funny to me how the group party that was supposed to be against big government, massive spending, uncontrolled borrowing, and for states’ rights, individuals’ rights, freedom of speech, etc… will turn their back on their beliefs because of their devotion to a would-be autocrat. Our forefathers fought the American Revolution to escape being under the thumb of England. Y’all are literally welcoming the feds to take control of any area that’s governed by politicians elected by people from another party. Wrong doesn’t become right just because you admire the guy who’s doing it.

Just a friendly reminder NO ONE WINS A SCRIMMAGE! That is all, Thank you.

The numbers are the numbers......Unless you're trying to dispute the numbers on practically every crime page I've gone to Beaumont and live in Port Arthur.....I've never been assaulted or obviously killed...but that does not mean the violent crime rate in Beaumont is not 278% above the national average in violent crime.

Think I'll check out WO-S at Lumberton Thursday and Hardin-Jefferson at Kountze Friday. All within 15 miles from my house. lol

It's my understanding that this year the official shortage will really be noticeable in the fact that several games will be played on Thursday nights this year instead of Friday. A few even on Saturdays. For example, Hardin is playing half their games (5) on Thursday nights this year. We are aware of this situation and will do our best in making those changes to the schedules when they are posted.

High school football officially kicks off today. Good luck to all our coverage area teams. Give us some early reports of practices for this week.

I personally don't see why this ad is causing so much controversy.

Except when you can’t define a woman because you’re not a biologist… 🤣🤣🤣

To what end result? To end the war? For the life of me I can't see all the criticism of Trump for trying to end a war that has killed around 2 million people. The same people holding silent while Obama and Biden did practically nothing.

Cristian Javier gets his 2nd start of the year this afternoon. I thought Astro pitching did a phenomenal job last night late in game. Shut down Orioles in 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th inning when they had runners in scoring position with no outs. Abreu gave up a double in the 9th but then struck out the next three to end the threat. De Los Santos was money in the 11th and 12th to get the win.

I still can't get over the amount of players HJ had on varsity. 53!!! Coach said they had over 120 in the program. By far the most I have ever heard for Hardin-Jefferson.

Trump probably leaned in and said “that’s the one that took out Irans nuclear, in the middle of the night, undetected”

Didn’t John Anderson have a song years ago “just a slingin”

I think wos return 10 out of 11 starters on defense . Dline was huge and physical, defensively they are really good. Good scrimmage for both always tough to face a tough physical defense right off the bat. I think lumberton looks better than last year and defensively they didn’t play bad.

It will be whoever Soros and his son Alex wants. Or just Alex Soros if the old Soros is gone by then.

I disagree. This is the one: Week 10 Friday Jasper at Silsbee

I disagree, respectfully. When you compete or versus, it's a winner and loser. now, in this situation, it doesn't count on your record. Think of it as you getting the brakes beat off you in an alley, but no one saw it or vice versa. I will say this. If the scrimmage is played like a traditional scrimmage, then yes, no winners or losers. Or even like they do in the nfl, "practice together", there is no winner. Soon as you make it "game like" with no kicking, there is a winner.

Hopefully everyone will think twice before yelling at and demeaning the refs. I roll my eyes when I hear coaches and fans carry on about officiating. Almost every game I have ever been a part of that ended in a loss could have been won with better tackling, blocking, catching, throwing, etc rather than any calls the officiating made or didn't make. You cant change the refs, concentrate on the things you can control which is primarily "your team's execution".

My thoughts: 11-5A D1 - Reverse Friendswood & Crosby. Overall Crosby returners including QB & outstanding DL. Plus, I think they’re hungry again. 8-5A D2 - Reverse Huntsville & PN-G. Coaching for PN-G. 10-3A D1 - Reverse EC & Hardin. Hardin O was impressive & looks like they return a bunch. Those and $0.25 will buy you the stir stick for your coffee.

The amount of rent-free living President Trump (yours and mine President) is doing in some people's head is amazing.

White folks threw around some racial slurs..... As I said, does not excuse the violence, but .....

Week 10 and Week 11 have coverage area teams as the best game. Week 10 is Angleton at La Porte Week 11 is Garrison at Joaquin (I have permission from the DCTF guys to post that info)

Nothing wrong with what he said, you simply live in the pathetic world of reading “woe is me” into every thing that is said, especially if it comes from someone that won’t openly declare hatred for Trump. We could use more Hippys in the world and less victims like you.

There's definitely space issues when you get below 4A because we've tried to keep the magazine at 400 pages. With more and more schools playing football, that dance gets tougher each year Depending on the team we may have a longer write-up on the team page on the website...which team/district are you referring to?? I've passed your feedback on to the editors, etc.

Redistricting should ALWAYS be about the numbers and not political gain or loss. When the population landscapes change, that is time to redistrict. That's warranted. Any other reason for redistricting is simply to gain a political advantage. Neither side should do it. I will say, the Dems that have fled to break quorum should be replaced. Immediately!

It’s called gerrymandering. Both sides are guilty.

It’s all about supply and demand. Globally. Presidents have nothing to do with it. Remember when COVID locked down? Demand went where? To the floor. Price went where? Same place. Wasn’t Trump. It was Economics 101. Global pandemics tend to shake things up. Politicians use the disruption to try and one up each other. As a society we tend to follow the personalities and ignore the details. History repeats and repeats and repeats. Must take an asteroid to reset.

They were in his garage.

The good news is they cant be worse than their last team. QB cant be worse than the last one, hopefully they will get a man sized qb with some skills. Vidors set it and forget it scheme hurts them alot but Mathews chose his best friend as his replacement and its the same ole' same ole'. Its the state of mind and good ole boy system that will always hurt them. They are barely making the playoffs in one of the worst districts in the state and the powers that be are content with that. When DuBois builds his retirement up he will assign Trahan to fill his spot. No hope in sight, nothing changes until it changes

He is the Democratic icon, yet he was the only President in US history to be CAUGHT receiving (and lying about) sexual favors in the Oval office.......as well as accusations of sexual assault.......Yet Trump gets crap for being a player when he was in his prime dating hot women.......

You miss the point. Democrats are actually picking socialist/communist candidates. The term ‘Democratic Socialist’ is a made-up load of crud, and is just a slower move towards government ownership with stupid voters actually asking for it. As @baddog has said, it’ll happen before the people even know what hit them. For everything Clinton was, and the benefits he got by being POTUS during the dot.com boom, he was at least a Capitalist.

Reminder and warning to not call people names or call them stupid. If you can't make your point without insults, then don't post. I assume most of us are adults

The smartest thing this government could do would be to start revoking all security clearances at separations of service for either military or political personnel. Obama still has his clearance. Why? Same with any of them. Never did understand the policy of allowing them to continue. If someone needs to be read in, make them pass another clearance based on up-to-date information.

Your larger schools that are in multi school districts share a stadium and will play on either Thursday or Saturday depending on the number of teams that are scheduled for that week. Yes, there are an alarming number of smaller schools, that have no reason to play on anything other than Friday's, having to play on Thursday due to the shortage. Thursday's are still better than Saturday's in my opinion.

Exactly. A majority in the Senate requires 60 votes to end the filibuster and allow a bill to come up for a vote. It only takes 51 votes to win an issue but 60 to allow the vote. In the House where there is no filibuster and limited time to debate, a one vote majority is actually a majority because the opposition can’t stop a vote. In the Senate the Republicans (or Democrats) could have a huge 59 - 41 advantage and yet can’t pass a bill without support from the opposition. In the House if one party has 218 representatives, leaving the other party with 217, they have an effective majority of in order to allow a vote. In the Senate an effective majority is 60 in order to allow a vote. So when I see comments on, “why don’t we just pass a law”, the answer is that they can’t without at least some bipartisan support from the opposition. They don’t have the required 60 vote majority.

Y'all cut UT some slack. He or She is hangry since the protesting of beef has started 🤣

The EO specified anyone born after Feb. 19, 2025. Do try to keep up.

This is what conservatism looks like! [Hidden Content]

The Mueller Report. What a crock…..

Much of progressivism is about devaluing the nuclear family. The whole “It takes a village” concept—which I can’t stand. Nothing in Jesus’ teachings anywhere espousing that concept in the way people (progressives) mean nowadays. In fact, quite the opposite. Parents are primary. Period.

I think AI is like all technology. It does a lot of good, but too much is a bad thing!!!